As a slight aside. Can anyone point me to any recent work being done to get working Linux drivers for the various Mac hardware bits that have been problematic in the past? I'm only finding old howtos for Linux on Mac which usually end up with some hardware or other not working. I'm specifically interested in Linux on MacBook Air. Thanks.
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Re: Elementary OS
#112Funny how everyone here in comments and author is saying "I really like Elementary OS" but nobody really wants/is ready to use it.
Re: Elementary OS
#113Not interested in Elementary OS at all, but I do keep an eye on Solus https://solus-project.com
(Well, there's also http://papyros.io, but I'm not confident that it will amount to anything)
BTW, that practice of making keywords (which often repeat throughout the text) into links (often to your own damn blog) is abhorrent.
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#114My mini Ask HN: After over a decade of using Mac OS X, I am considering switching to Linux for my dev laptop. The tools I worry about are those that interact with audio and webcam - Go To Meeting, Google Hangout etc. My work involves me having to teleconf with others often. Does anyone here have experience using Linux well in such scenarios. If so, what hardware are you using? Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work wel…
"Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work well?" Funny story: My new-ish Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 7559 i7 with 4k touchscreen display; which I got at an absurdly low sales price from the Dell outlet store) does not reliably recover from sleep under Windows, but does under Linux (neither worked when I first got the laptop, but now only Windows fails and now only some of the time). That's a first, for me, as I have had a h…
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
Re: Elementary OS
#115The Mac UI ripoff issue may not matter to you, but it does to me. It's gross and slavish, like using a KIRF Chinese knockoff phone with stolen icons.
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#116> the terminal emits a desktop notification whenever it detects that a long-running process has finished.
Does anyone know how this is implemented?
Edit: pretty simple: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/pantheon-termin... http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/pantheon-termin...
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to Reddit.com/r/unixporn, with some minor tweaking it's very easy to make Linux look nice.
Minor tweaking? /r/unixporn crowd is always interested in posts that customize their Linux setups to the max: use Window Managers almost exclusively, have a unified color scheme all over the system etc. That's not minor tweaking.
There are plenty of posts for DE's and I think there's filters in the sidebar for whatever you might be looking for.
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#118> the Screenshot app knows how to obfuscate text
Wow, that's a pretty great idea. Enough people do this wrong manually that it seems like something that could be better solved by the OS.
One example I've seen of doing it wrong is adding black opaque rectangles as layers and then sending out all layers including the original. Another is pixelating it in a way where it's possible to revert the pixelation since the font is known (e.g. parts of a facebook post)
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you rely on Skype in any way, avoid Linux. The Linux version was killed years ago and basic stuff like screen sharing isn't working as expected. Last time I tried (2+ years ago, it might be different now) Go To Meeting also wasn't working on Linux. I've used Linux on the desktop between 2009-2014 and basically anything multimedia related was a chore.
The web version of Skype works fine in Linux. Also, there is https://meet.jit.si/ - This works very well in WebRTC capable browsers.
I managed a internal version of jitsi meet, its great, but it has had a bunch of glitches and issues with parties with more than ~15 people on it.
Re: Elementary OS
#120How do I install this thing? Will it work well on relatively old computers?
It works really well on old computers in my experience. I first ran it because Ubuntu was so slow to be unusuable on an old Core2Duo, and on that hardware Elementary was very fast.