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Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by petepete »

cmurf wrote: post #227

Option-u (or e) followed by any Latin letter and you get that letter with umlaut or accent. Things like that I miss from macOS. I still have no idea how to do that on GNOME.

It's actually pretty straightforward, you just need to enable a compose key, then press it followed by punctuation then a letter to insert a special character

For example,

     ” e = ë
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialc...

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by smoldesu »

heavyset_go wrote: post #216
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.

As much as I enjoy the heritage of Linux theming, I do have to agree with you. A lot of it comes down to a difference in HIG, and as you've suggested, the quality of a theme mostly comes down to how well it works with those constraints. Normally I'm pretty unimpressed (those Big Sur themes have a real chicken-and-egg feel to them), but the few themes that I've seen that go out of their way to make a good, Mac-like experience are Nordic[0] (my personal fav and daily driver), Prof [1], and Juno [2].

[0] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1267246/

[1] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1334194/

[2] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1280977/

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by criddell »

somenewaccount1 wrote: post #72
criddell wrote: post #21

I guess I don't get how operating systems are still something that people have such strong opinions on. All of the major operating systems are good enough or can be made good enough by installing a few packages. Pop may be great, but it's useless if you need to run Final Cut Pro. macOS is wonderful, but not if you want to play a lot of AAA games. Windows is fine, but if you are doing a lot of Ruby on Rails you may ha…

I think you understand perfectly why people have strong opinions. Depending on your particular use case, one will work magnificently while the other will be toast.

My point is that if I’m a gamer, I may not be a fan of Windows any more than I’m a fan of Seagate hard drives or Comcast internet. It’s just another bit of infrastructure that I need to do what I actually want to do - play games.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by rtpg »

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…

My strategy has been to stick to everything Gnome on Ubuntu. In gnome tweaks you can even turn on ctrl-a and ctrl-e! Everything feels consistent

Really wish Linux followed macs example of using super instead of ctrl for copy/paste/etc in general though…

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by BlackFingolfin »

eitland wrote: post #185
nickcox wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been a while since I used a Mac but my recollection is that the same Emacs style key bindings were available for all text fields pretty much without exception. https://jblevins.org/log/kbd

Thanks, this might come in useful at some point. That said, on Windows and in Linux this is extremely much simpler and more consistent, I can write it down right here and now, it doesn't need a full web page: arrow keys: move ctrl + arrow left/right: move left/right to next word boundary. shift + arrow left/right: select a character to the left/right. ctrl + shift + arrow left/right: select to next word boundary.

Replace ctrl by alt and that's macOS hotkeys. Except there are a ton more which one can use (but of course doesn't have to use)

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by taeric »

na85 wrote: post #170
taeric wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find this funny, in that I struggle with Mac all the time. The worst grievance lately is that I don't know how to just pop back and forth between three windows. Something about the way command tab works just kills my ability to reason about what the window stack currently is. And, for the life of me, I never get copy paste from a terminal to work like I want it to.

>And, for the life of me, I never get copy paste from a terminal to work like I want it to. Doesn't command+c/command+v work?

I think most of my trouble is highlighting the part I want copied. Can't remember, and I now do most of my work in emacs. Such that I am now used to all of my editor buffer being treated the same.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by walrus01 »

On a linux desktop I actually don't want something that tries too hard to copy MacOS.

I want a traditional desktop metaphor not very different from KDE2.

The closest thing right now is something like ordinary xorg + XFCE4 + all of the XFCE4 additional packages.

XFCE4 is small, clean and minimalist enough that it's entirely unobtrusive as a linux desktop GUI. With sufficient customization of the taskbar, and multi-desktop switcher, it's the best I've found so far.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by alpaca128 »

mindcrime wrote: post #124

I can't say much about the MacOS side of things (I do use a Mac at my day-job, but only because the choice is Mac or Windows, no Linux option). But as far as PopOS goes... I've been using it full-time on my personal laptop for several months now, and I'm very happy. Surprisingly so, you might say. Why "surprising?" Well TBH, I always looked at PopOS as kind of a niche / oddball thing, along with any other distro that…

Meanwhile I replaced PopOS on my ThinkPad a couple days ago, for some reason I had an increasing number of bugs and stability issues. I'm getting the impression polished/user-friendly distros just don't like me.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by toastal »

rtpg wrote: post #254
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…

My strategy has been to stick to everything Gnome on Ubuntu. In gnome tweaks you can even turn on ctrl-a and ctrl-e! Everything feels consistent Really wish Linux followed macs example of using super instead of ctrl for copy/paste/etc in general though…

Many window managers, especially tiling, use super key extensively for shortcuts. This feels more like an acquired taste/habit than anything. Making applination-level shortcuts follow Windows make more sense for onboarding. Many keyboards have dip switches to swap the keys if you really cared.

Re: Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

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Post by toastal »

criddell wrote: post #253
somenewaccount1 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you understand perfectly why people have strong opinions. Depending on your particular use case, one will work magnificently while the other will be toast.

My point is that if I’m a gamer, I may not be a fan of Windows any more than I’m a fan of Seagate hard drives or Comcast internet. It’s just another bit of infrastructure that I need to do what I actually want to do - play games.

If you don't do online multiplayer, it pretty easy to be happy with Linux. Pick up something DRM-free on GoG or if you're a Steam user, many indie games are native as are Feral AAA and then there's Proton. If it doesn't work natively or through Proton, I just press the refund button on Steam because there's a lot of games out there that do work with my setup that it's not worth losing sleep over a handful of games.
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