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Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by heavyset_go »

meremortals wrote: post #173
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #53

All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked & reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs. I've been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I've hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time…

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto comes close for keyboard shortcuts

Came here to post this. The developer seems to take macOS keyboard shortcuts on Linux seriously.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by rbreaves »

meremortals wrote: post #173
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #53

All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked & reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs. I've been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I've hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time…

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto comes close for keyboard shortcuts

Thanks for the mention. Am a little surprised they wouldn't list it. I know mmstick at Pop_OS! is aware of it because I mentioned it to him at some point when I felt it had become mature enough. Although it really is not properly packaged into a deb install file just yet, been a bit busy, but also just trying to make heavy use of my own app for my own dev purposes as well without doing daily or weekly development on Kinto at this point. (I have made over 1,000 commits in a 2yr span just on Kinto. Even went from it being written in C to Python.)

I suspect once I package it properly and make it available in various repos and app stores that it will get more coverage. Also Kinto is feature complete as far as I am concerned, only changes that happen now are mostly minor. May do a rewrite of some parts of it to make updates go smoother and allow users to retain their own changes easier but no major functionality changes or additions are planned at this time.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by [deleted] »

eitland wrote: post #196
geraneum wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been using Macs since 2009 for programming and have always used _by default_ Option+arrows in all apps for jumping between words and Cmd+arrow for beginning and end of line/file. I have never experienced “fn” to be used for moving the cursor around. It’s interesting that you had a different experience since these have been OS defaults and you can change them of course. I wonder if these was another software whic…

The things I remember using for work back then was eclipse, Textedit(not sure about the name, but at least the simple text editor that came with Mac), Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

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Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by commoner »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #82
ejj28 wrote: post #42

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Indeed, after pacman and yay I'm never going back to Debian-based systems for personal use. The Arch User Repository is so much more hassle-free than trying to install stuff on Debian from 3rd-party repos.

What gives people confidence in the security of the user repository packages?

You can audit the PKGBUILD scripts yourself. A good AUR helper, such as paru (https://github.com/morganamilo/paru), will by default automatically present the PKGBUILD for the user to evaluate before proceeding with the installation.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by heavyset_go »

kevinak wrote: post #9

I recently installed Pop_OS on a new Workstation and wanted it to look and feel like MacOS as much as possible. It's surprisingly easy. You can even make Firefox look like Safari if that's your jazz. Here's what I used: https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme

I've always found the small instances where macOS Linux themes and actual macOS diverge annoying. To me, themes that use patterns and idioms that were instead inspired by, and not copied from, macOS are a happy medium.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by rbreaves »

johndoughy wrote: post #79
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #53

All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked & reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs. I've been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I've hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time…

Couldn't agree more about consistent keyboard shortcuts. It's crazy to me that mere copy/paste doesn't have a consistent keyboard shortcut across the system (eg terminal uses ctrl-shift-c or something). And if copy/paste isn't consistent, there's little hope for other shortcuts.

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Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by rbreaves »

spindle wrote: post #126
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #53

All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked & reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs. I've been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I've hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time…

Why doesn't someone use kmonad or libinput or something to make a utility that holds a database of the most-used applications and, whenever the user focuses a window, remaps the keyboard to some set of consistent system-wide bindings? I don't think that exists, does it? EXWM comes close, but it doesn't have the database. I know, I know, I just said "someone" when I should do it myself.

There are 3 options here.

https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail

https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap

https://github.com/autokey/autokey

My advice is to skip the last one unless you need something truly complicated and a config syntax that is just insane regardless of your level of complexity imo.

Of course if you just want mac based keybinds to be done for you then use my kinto app.

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by Aeolun »

marcodiego wrote: post #48

My neighbor asked me to help him get rid of windows 10 and install Ubuntu on his old (2013) laptop. I helped. It was easy and fast to install. Of course, you needed to know what is an image and how to boot from a USB device, but it was easy nonetheless. Since he doesn't depend on any windows-only software, hardware or service, I didn't expect any problem. I was particularly happy the printer (an multifunction HP Desk…

This is interesting, but I’m not sure how it relates to an entirely different OS?

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by badsectoracula »

eitland wrote: post #158
saurik wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Mac is the only thing where alt-tab falls on its face. Even if you remind yourself that you're on Mac and use cmd-tab... But alt on a Windows keyboard layout and and command on a Mac keyboard layout are the same key location, so I don't understand how you can be confused by this... maybe stop looking at the keyboard?

Mac differs between switching windows and applications. So if you work in an IDE, keep reading docs in one Firefox window and test your application in another Firefox window then in KDE or XFCE or another sane windowing system[1] - even Windows - you just use alt - tab. On Mac you have to stop an think: Should I switch to another browser Window? Ok, that is CMD - backtick. Switch to or from IDE? That is CMD - tab. Pr…

Personally i like how Window Maker does it: you can switch between all windows like in Windows, KDE, XFCE and most other floating window managers (by default on Alt+Tab) but you can also switch only between the windows of the current group (usually all windows of an application belong to the same group) or quickly toggle between the last two workspaces (what WM calls virtual desktops). The last two aren't bound to keys by default, but personally i have those set to Alt+` (sort of taken from when i used a Mac for a while) and Win+Tab respectively.

The only annoyance is that it doesn't seem to distinguish between window types so, e.g., in GIMP in multiple window mode it also cycles between utility windows like the toolbar, options, etc instead of only the image windows - though some applications do not even bother providing window hints about their window types.

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