Yet another demented linux thread where everyone doesn't use arch. Arch is no more than pacman -Syu unless you've done something retarded. Arch is the least demanding distro, unless you're totally useless or clueless. I use arch by the way.
Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
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#182Does Elementary OS support importing iTunes and macOS Photos libraries?
I’d imagine if it did it couldn’t play any DRM’d music... but I haven’t kept track of where we’re at in stripping it.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Special characters through the keyboard like these? ł€æßðđŧŋ«»¢“”←ħn↓ĸ→ø Those are input from just pressing ALT(right) + The € is ALTgr + e. ¢ is ALTgr + SHIFT + e.
I don't know if it's what the OP meant, but on macOS you can hold a letter key, and it will pop up a little dialog with a bunch of similar characters (hold 'n' and chose from 'n' with various diacritical marks), and you can just press the corresponding number key to choose it. I'ts not as fast as a dedicated key shortcut if you're constantly using the same character, but it's far easier if you're only occasionally us…
On macOS you can also type things like Opt-U to get an umlaut, followed by typing the letter you want underneath it (eg for ü, ë, ä, ö). ß is Opt-S, I think é is Opt-E E, etc. I prefer that to the AltGr+key shortcuts, which I find harder to remember. I don't use the Mac as my primary OS anymore, but that's one of the things I miss the most.
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#184Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D (bought a few months before the scandal). I haven't installed Hera yet, but hopefully the new text size option works as well as I'd like it to. Otherwise my experience with Elementary has been... not so bad. The speakers are too quiet for some reason, my university's Wifi won't accept my credentials (every other network is…
> Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D
Otherwise how has it been with Linux on that? I'm considering getting one, they look great!
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#185Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D (bought a few months before the scandal). I haven't installed Hera yet, but hopefully the new text size option works as well as I'd like it to. Otherwise my experience with Elementary has been... not so bad. The speakers are too quiet for some reason, my university's Wifi won't accept my credentials (every other network is…
> Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D Otherwise how has it been with Linux on that? I'm considering getting one, they look great!
I'm happy to report that the annoying text size issue is fixed in the new version of Elementary. However, the Firefox crashes still happen, and are the biggest issue with the system. I can't recommend it as long as it's still panicking every few days. (Firefox is not the only app, but certainly the most likely, for me to be using when it freezes; no, I haven't delved too far into this, nor have I made any strange modifications to the system.)
It works with the Wifi chip, speakers are too quiet (?), suspend/power is fine (yay!), graphics seem to work. Overall a very near miss.
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#186I have been using Elementary OS for a while. It's nice to use, but the biggest issue is that there is no way to upgrade it to a newer distro version when it comes.
I am stuck to elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki and only way to upgrade to the latest version is to reinstall the whole thing.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Special characters through the keyboard like these? ł€æßðđŧŋ«»¢“”←ħn↓ĸ→ø Those are input from just pressing ALT(right) + The € is ALTgr + e. ¢ is ALTgr + SHIFT + e.
I don't know if it's what the OP meant, but on macOS you can hold a letter key, and it will pop up a little dialog with a bunch of similar characters (hold 'n' and chose from 'n' with various diacritical marks), and you can just press the corresponding number key to choose it. I'ts not as fast as a dedicated key shortcut if you're constantly using the same character, but it's far easier if you're only occasionally us…
Just tested this - it seems like a handy feature but apparently also dependent on the application using a specific textbox from the macOS UI toolkit. So it doesn't work in iTerm, and probably not in Firefox either? So not an "OS" feature exactly, and probably something the GTK folks could provide an equivalent for if they don't already.
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#188I was trying to figure out why the laptop in the header image looks so huge, and I think I did. The UI scaling is really really small for a normal ~15 inch laptop. If that laptop is supposed to be about 13 inches, the dock should probably be 50-100% bigger. A small issue, but it bugged me.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single bit of the desktop is nicer than stock GNOME. Preferences, the terminal, the dock, window decorations, you name it. It’s just visually polished and _consistent_ to a degree I haven’t found in any other distro yet.
I agree. It's the tiniest things, like math operations in the search bar, autosaving in the text editor, terminal knowing that I want to copy something when I select the text and press Ctrl + C... + NO MENU BARS. I'm allergic to locating things in a drop down within a drop down within a drop down.
Also the preinstalled terminal has case-insensitive tab completion which is nice as well.
I've had some technical problems with past eOS versions but it's one of few distros where you get the feeling the developers are actually trying to make it more usable and polished. It starts with a consistent, nice-looking UI and doesn't stop with details like great default wallpapers.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if it's what the OP meant, but on macOS you can hold a letter key, and it will pop up a little dialog with a bunch of similar characters (hold 'n' and chose from 'n' with various diacritical marks), and you can just press the corresponding number key to choose it. I'ts not as fast as a dedicated key shortcut if you're constantly using the same character, but it's far easier if you're only occasionally us…
On macOS you can also type things like Opt-U to get an umlaut, followed by typing the letter you want underneath it (eg for ü, ë, ä, ö). ß is Opt-S, I think é is Opt-E E, etc. I prefer that to the AltGr+key shortcuts, which I find harder to remember. I don't use the Mac as my primary OS anymore, but that's one of the things I miss the most.
On Linux there are dedicated combination keys to put accents on characters like: ä, á, é, ë, etc.
This is how it has always worked (I use a Latin-American keyboard layout). And I think it's the best of both worlds.
If you wanted and your font supports it you could have: ṕẃéŕý (accent key + character key).
All above without touching the AltGr key.