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Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Re: Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Post by eropple »

induscreep wrote: post #2

Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?

Terminal.app often feels sort of clunky to me. I use iTerm2 instead--being able to split panes is really nice (no, I don't want to use tmux).

The default userland is kind of annoying, in that a lot of utilities are BSD ones and aren't compatible with my imported-from-Linux scripts, aliases, etc., but that's just an install of coreutils away.

Re: Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Post by Argorak »

eropple wrote: post #4
induscreep wrote: post #2

Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?

Terminal.app often feels sort of clunky to me. I use iTerm2 instead--being able to split panes is really nice (no, I don't want to use tmux). The default userland is kind of annoying, in that a lot of utilities are BSD ones and aren't compatible with my imported-from-Linux scripts, aliases, etc., but that's just an install of coreutils away.

By the way, if you want to get the benefits of tmux with respect to attach, detach, but want to manage splits and tabs using the Terminal, iTerm2 has you covered:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

Re: Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Post by bravura »

tl;dr: I've been using Mac for ten years. "Two days ago I got my Dell XPS 13 as part of a Dell beta progam called project Sputnik." After two days of use, I haven't run into any serious roadblocks, so I'm not using Mac anymore.

a) Is writing this blog post a requirement of the Sputnik program?

b) Regardless of the answer to a), how do I get into the Sputnik program?

Re: Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Post by brian_cloutier »

induscreep wrote: post #2

Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?

It's been a while since I used it, but off the top of my head:

- colors never worked right, you can certainly enable them but themes like solarized are impossible to get working.

- it took forever to open. as in, a terminal on my machine is just a keypress away and it took the terminal on my osx machine a couple seconds to open a window, and even longer to show me a prompt

- somehow they borked mouse input, so clicking the line you want to edit from within a vim session, for example, is a no-go.

- this is a lion problem but terminal interacts with it especially badly, there's no easy way to open a second terminal window. I usually have tons of the things open and it's impossible to manage them properly.

Re: Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

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Post by mangler »

eropple wrote: post #4
induscreep wrote: post #2

Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?

Terminal.app often feels sort of clunky to me. I use iTerm2 instead--being able to split panes is really nice (no, I don't want to use tmux). The default userland is kind of annoying, in that a lot of utilities are BSD ones and aren't compatible with my imported-from-Linux scripts, aliases, etc., but that's just an install of coreutils away.

So what's wrong with it is that it feels clunky to you...
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