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Please, linux users, mention your experience with high-res displays since many of us would like to move to a 4k display in the near future.
I've settled on Debian Jessie(testing) with the Cinnamon desktop environment and Opera Beta as my web-browser, it all works perfectly and the clarity is wonderful and couldn't imagine ever using a non-HiDPI screen again.
Please, linux users, mention your experience with high-res displays since many of us would like to move to a 4k display in the near future.
Try Elementary OS, its based off ubuntu and is almost a dead ringer for OSX. It has the window management you are looking for as well as a couple of apps. Try Synapse as a replacement for Alfred.
As a result I've had to run Elementary in a VM with snapshotting, and I roll back the snapshot if an update hoses the install. Kinda shitty, if you ask me.
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr is where you want to be. It Just Works, plus there's a huge and awesome community to help out if you have questions. I haven't tried the derivatives, like Mint or Elementary, but I've heard good things. Note that even though Ubuntu is based on Debian, you do not want Debian... It's release cycle is a lot slower, the UI is much less polished, and you'll be stuck with versions of software that…
> you'll be stuck with versions of software that are really really out of date I've had way more trouble with out of date packages on Ubuntu than Debian (Sid).
Just my two cents, but I've had way more trouble with missing packages. It's a pity, but Ubuntu repositories are growing at a much faster pace.
If I want the latest and greatest I can always compile from source...
I switched a few weeks ago because I was tired of OS X, too. I tried every distribution out there and the one I've kept is Debian Jessie. Debian is great in that it's a simple and stable Gnome experience. Linux can be much more dangerous than OS X in terms of applications crashing badly, so I like the fact that I have an OS that I have thoroughly tested, fixed, and that won't move much in years. And I can get both th…
I have no experience with OS X and Alfred, but from what you describe it looks like krunner for the KDE desktop environment. krunner is a mini-CLI you can open with alt-F2 by default (customizable of course). It allows searching apps or the web, opening web sites, search files, controlling music being played, or whatever really as it's extensible through plugins. If using KDE is acceptable to you, you can learn more…
It is based on an idea from an older launcher called Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/
These types of apps have existed in OS X for a long time. I'm kind of surprised that Linux doesn't have an equivalent yet, as pretty much any open-source dev who uses a Mac laptop knows about the above apps.
Could anyone that did Youtube videos for a living live with only Linux? Is there a very good solution for recording your screen?
Please, linux users, mention your experience with high-res displays since many of us would like to move to a 4k display in the near future.
In general, handling high resolution displays requires a really tightly bound ecosystem so scaling works on all applications. Linux makes it immediately clear what happens when this is not the case. 14.04 is totally unusable because you have to either change the system fonts to be huge or scale text within every application individually, if the application even provides the ability to do that at all.
I switched a few weeks ago because I was tired of OS X, too. I tried every distribution out there and the one I've kept is Debian Jessie. Debian is great in that it's a simple and stable Gnome experience. Linux can be much more dangerous than OS X in terms of applications crashing badly, so I like the fact that I have an OS that I have thoroughly tested, fixed, and that won't move much in years. And I can get both th…
Gnome Do looks like a Quicksilver clone. Seems stalled for a year.
https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert
Alfred-inspired, though possibly moving a little slow (no updates for a month, and those were readme/packaging). Claims to have a major refactor coming out this month.
https://github.com/qdore/Mutate
Alfred-inspired, looks active.
Mutate might be what I'd hitch my horse to, were I ok with something bleeding edge. Unsure if it supports complex workflows, though.
Gnome Terminal is the shit. It's totally awesome and other terms seem to copy it, like xfce's terminal. It wraps text just fine for me, has profile switching and lots of other features. Funny you mention that OS X is taking away options and features. That's how I feel about the Gnome team's approach to their desktop. But Gnome has a lot of small programs and widgets that I find useful. Even though I use stock Ubuntu…
I did this because I like the Unity top bar integration and indicator panels which has a nice sleek look to it.
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