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haaaaaave you looked at Firefox/Chrome recently?
PS: I agree.
iTerm2 Web Browser
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Because of the restrictions apple place on the computer that i purchased.
Yeah. Fully agree. I am this close to throwing away my MacBook and migrating back to sane Linux. For the last 20 years.
When you find "sane Linux" could you do a write up for me? Ta!
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Fully agree. I am this close to throwing away my MacBook and migrating back to sane Linux. For the last 20 years.
When you find "sane Linux" could you do a write up for me? Ta!
Not Ubuntu anymore, sadly. I have tried Debian after like 15 years pause and I loved it so much more. Note: we're talking server-side Linux here. Desktop wise I would stay on Ubuntu.
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#55Sadly there is no screenshot of the web browser
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#56Set Profile Type to Web Browser Can't see this option so no idea if this works or not
You have to install the add-on first
https://iterm2.com/browser-plugin.html
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you find "sane Linux" could you do a write up for me? Ta!
Not Ubuntu anymore, sadly. I have tried Debian after like 15 years pause and I loved it so much more. Note: we're talking server-side Linux here. Desktop wise I would stay on Ubuntu.
Debian has been my attempt to desktop linux (in the olden days, Slackware!), but for the server I've always preferred OpenBSD.
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#59If you're a Mac user and not using iTerm2 then run don't walk to download it.
It's one of the first things I install on a new mac. Along with Firefox. So the browser is a bit redundant for me.
I actually only use a fraction of the features but the ones I do use seem to be lacking in the few linux terminals I've used.
Things I like:
- easy to switch between tabs (command + arrow), use this all the time
- easy to copy paste (command+c, command+v, same as in the rest of the OS).
- easy to scroll (just passes through scroll events to things like less and bat)
- looks alright with the right font setup
- right click split horizontally/vertically; easy and I do this all the time. And no need to remember the key combos for that.
- it remembers the directory of each tab when I restart it. Simple feature but so nice.
There are a lot of smaller features that you won't notice until they aren't there.
The keybindings are of course a nice side effect of not having to use ctrl for everything, which conflicts with a lot of stuff in terminals (e.g. ctrl+c aborts stuff). There is the "windows" key of course for the last few decades but somehow using that as a modifier never caught on in the Linux world. So keybindings are a bit more awkward. So you have to remember to press ctrl+shift+c, depending on what window you are looking at. Which is something I get wrong every few times I do it.
Anyway, iterm2 is the best terminal across all operating systems I'm aware off. I have a linux laptop as well and I haven't really found anything I liked so far. And I tried essentially all the popular ones.
IMHO the main issue in this space is people geeking out on configuration languages but then forgetting to add a nice usable preference screen in their ultimate iterm2 killer (which seems to set the bar for a lot of these things). I'm sure it's great if you take a sabbatical and make a deep study of the freaking manual to program your settings correctly. But that just makes for a really high barrier of entry. Iterm2 in comparison is very easy to configure but even if you don't do that, it just generally does a lot of things right out of the box that don't need micromanaging.
Anyway, nice upgrade and just generally nice to see this oss product stay fresh and relevant over the years.