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Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by brabel »

nikisweeting wrote: post #490
brabel wrote: post #456

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100 tabs? Don't you ever close them? How do you even find a tab again when you want it? Can't you just use bookmarks or something like Pocket? I think I never have more than 10 tabs open, so this is really surprising to me.

My workflow works great for me, I have no trouble finding tabs. I have multiple windows, tab groups, and extensions like TabSorter, The Great Suspender, Alfred Tab Search, and others to manage my tabs as a queue of things I want to read / get back to. I use Pocket as well, but that's for my queue of things I've already read that I want to archive, not things I want to read in the future. I process a high volume of ta…

Because of the way browsers work, it's a bad idea to keep that many tabs open. Most browsers consider each tab as its own process, and each tab consumes lots of memory... they really don't optimise for 100s of tabs open at a time.

I understand you got used to that, but really, there's no reason to keep that many tabs open.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by heavyset_go »

mmphosis wrote: post #449
peteretep wrote: post #393

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Surprised there isn’t something that does an almost perfect OS X emulation

I am not surprised. I've been using Linux for a while, and there a lot of things I miss. I keep an old Mac around to reminisce. • menu bar: one, at the top of the screen. I think KDE had this, and there might have been a somewhat working extension for GTK that doesn't exist anymore. • keys: CTRL is mapped to Alt; Alt is mapped to Win. This is a start. ⌘C and ⌘V: work as Copy and Paste in Terminal, ^C and all the othe…

This is one of those things that I geek out on as a former macOS user.

> menu bar: one, at the top of the screen. I think KDE had this, and there might have been a somewhat working extension for GTK that doesn't exist anymore.

KDE has this if you use the Window Buttons[1], Window Title[2], and Window AppMenu[3] plugins.

> • keys:

Plasma Desktop lets you remap keys easily, and you can use setxkbmap elsewhere. I haven't tried remapping the ⌘ key for terminal usage, though, but I've remapped most of the macOS shortcuts I used to use.

[1] https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-buttons

[2] https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-title

[3] https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by IggleSniggle »

Aeolun wrote: post #414
IggleSniggle wrote: post #411

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Wait, what? Does Steam bake in some kind of automatic virtualization support for Windows games these days?

Jup, comes with a customized proton build, and the ability to select specific proton versions if you have them installed. I’d say 50% of games works out of the box. And 25% more after installing some video libraries that are for some reason not automatically installed.

Welp, especially with how infrequently I play games these days, there goes my last reason to ever install Windows on my home machines. Thanks for taking the time to give me a sense of how it looks “in reality” these days.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by kcartlidge »

cpursley wrote: post #272
busterarm wrote: post #245

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Not just any thinkpad! Stick to the X, T & to some extent P series. Avoid nvidia graphics if you can. Arch Linux (and to some extent OpenBSD) probably has the best support/documentation/fixes for any ACPI/APM management issues you have. I have a top-end 2017 MBP and I just recently bought a brand new 7th Gen X1 Carbon for very cheaply (like $800) and it _screams_ in comparison to the Mac.

Thanks for bringing this up. Can folk's recommend specific thinkpads that play well with linux? I'm specifically interested in Ryzen versions.

I've got a Thinkpad L14 with Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U, 16GB, Radeon.

I had Mint 20 running on it briefly. Everything (that I tried) worked perfectly, except that the trackpad was jumpy. Eventually got fed up with the imprecision and put Win10 back on it (I still run Mint on a Yoga S730 and have Ubuntu under WSL2 on the L14).

I'm sure I'll try again at some point as it is probably a simple fix; I just couldn't spare the time to investigate. I'm assuming as this is a fairly new machine, when I try again in a few months it may work better.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by Aeolun »

bartvk wrote: post #443
Aeolun wrote: post #406

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But my company only gives me the option between mac and windows.

I also worked at a company that gave me one option: Windows. So I took it, and installed Linux on it. First in a VM and later, I just blew the resident OS away.

Did that too, but it only works while in the office since the VPN software disallows connecting from a Linux machine.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by sleepydog »

rovr138 wrote: post #487
Sunspark wrote: post #479

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No, what is listed are the concerns they have with W10 but they don't say what is preventing them from using W7 if they really want to.

>I wish I could have used Windows 7 forever :\ Probably the fact it's an unsupported OS, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-end-of-lif... As of January 14, 2020, your computer running Windows 7 will still function but Microsoft will no longer provide the following: Technical support for any issues Software updates Security updates or fixes

Aye, I don't use win7 because it's unsupported. Microsoft also updated it automatically when I wasn't looking.

I don't really care enough to support windows 7 myself; as I mentioned, the only reason I have Windows is for video games, so as long as I'm still getting video driver updates, Win10 could be the worst OS in the world and it wouldn't bother me too much.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by rbreaves »

mmphosis wrote: post #449
peteretep wrote: post #393

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Surprised there isn’t something that does an almost perfect OS X emulation

I am not surprised. I've been using Linux for a while, and there a lot of things I miss. I keep an old Mac around to reminisce. • menu bar: one, at the top of the screen. I think KDE had this, and there might have been a somewhat working extension for GTK that doesn't exist anymore. • keys: CTRL is mapped to Alt; Alt is mapped to Win. This is a start. ⌘C and ⌘V: work as Copy and Paste in Terminal, ^C and all the othe…

Maybe you should try out the Ubuntu Budgie distro with my http://kinto.sh project added to handle your key mappings. I've tried countless distros and it is the most mac like experience you will find. EnsoOS would follow it, but of course I'd mention elementaryOS and Pop_OS! if they'd keep support for the global menu like Budgie or EnsoOS(xfce).

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by rbreaves »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #408
peteretep wrote: post #393

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Surprised there isn’t something that does an almost perfect OS X emulation

Totally agree. Some would point to elementary OS/Pantheon as being that, but it’s only really “maclike” superficially and brings some unique annoyances that don’t exist in macOS.

Try out ubuntu budgie with kinto.sh. (am the author of Kinto)

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

Fnoord wrote: post #465
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #453

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I've been running Arch Linux for many, many years now on three or four machines at the same time. I've never had anything break, unlike in Ubuntu. (Constant Ubuntu breakages were the thing that drove me to Arch in the first place.) Arch Linux is basically "default upstream Linux", which means less random patches and stuff built on top of it.

I call bullshit. You're doing something wrong on your Ubuntu installation. I run an Arch installation on my desktop. I mainly run Ubuntu on it (an artifact from a time where Ubuntu replaced Debian as my main Linux OS). Every once in a while, I boot to Arch to play around with it (to learn about the hype; there's a few things I like about Arch Linux. AUR is large, wiki documentation is ace). And, practically every tim…

> ...and every time I upgrade to a next version I got stuff to fix

Yeah, exactly. This is everyone's experience.

> And, practically every time I boot into it, I got stuff to fix...

But this isn't, you're definitely doing something very wrong.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by Fnoord »

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #499
Fnoord wrote: post #465

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I call bullshit. You're doing something wrong on your Ubuntu installation. I run an Arch installation on my desktop. I mainly run Ubuntu on it (an artifact from a time where Ubuntu replaced Debian as my main Linux OS). Every once in a while, I boot to Arch to play around with it (to learn about the hype; there's a few things I like about Arch Linux. AUR is large, wiki documentation is ace). And, practically every tim…

> ...and every time I upgrade to a next version I got stuff to fix Yeah, exactly. This is everyone's experience. > And, practically every time I boot into it, I got stuff to fix... But this isn't, you're definitely doing something very wrong.

Every OS with a development branch (-CURRENT, -git, unstable, or rolling release) suffers from this, yet when it comes to Arch, I'm doing something very wrong.
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