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Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Re: Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Post by nipperkinfeet »

rednafi wrote: post #22

I loathe macOS but stick with it mostly for the hardware. I use a beefed-up 16-inch M3 Max for work and a baseline 15-inch MacBook Air for writing and OSS work. I love the Air’s hardware and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Before switching to Mac, I was running a maxed-out 16-inch Dell XPS and enjoyed using Ubuntu and Pop!_OS on it. But the hardware just wasn’t there—the trackpad felt cheap, and the keyboard would cr…

I recently tried MacOS after a couple of years of not using it. The windows management hasn't gotten any better. It is just so horrible. The Dock still does not allow you to click on the icon of the application to minimize it.

Re: Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Post by e-clinton »

For the first time ever, I managed to run Linux on a primary machine for a year. Before that, either issues with software or hardware would consistently have me through my hands up and give up.

While it was pleasant while it lastly, I ended up reinstalling Windows on my Surface Pro 9 since the machine began randomly freezing after installing a set of updates (I was running Ubuntu with SurfaceLinux kernel).

Surprisingly, Windows with WSL has been more pleasant to use than I remember. I haven’t run Windows in 10+ years, but so far im encouraged to continue trying it.

Re: Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Post by eth0up »

talldayo wrote: post #80
eth0up wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, and touchpad behavior in Linux can be configured to a satisfactory degree, but with admittedly excessive fenagling. Modifying dozens of different parameters in a command line interface to get full functionality is silly. The default settings can easily be interpreted as deliberate cruelty. I am unusually OCD with touchpads though, and have a history of actually smashing them during times of high stress. Why the…

Wayland has had 1:1 trackpad gestures as the default for years. I know this because I've been daily-driving Linux (both KDE and GNOME) with a Magic Trackpad for years now, and the experience out-of-box is better than my Mac. In fact, I think Apple should take a page out of Linux' book and put cursor acceleration in system preferences instead of the terminal. The amount of work that Apple puts into enforcing controver…

Holy crap! Good stuff! Thanks.

Just need to get a laptop to try it.

Re: Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Post by megous »

megous wrote: post #79
DaSHacka wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Missing the "/s"

No. Slackware was my first distro after MS-DOS and Windows 95/2000 and the benefit was that it was a really simple thing, conceptually, and quite malleable. So if someone's suggesting a distro that's good for "reclaiming your freedom", then one of the simplest distros out there, made and maintained by a single person and well docummented, but still challenging enough that you end up learning something, should be a le…

And LFS is of course explicitly in this space. You basically build your own OS.

But Slackware has much smaller initial commitment, so I'd think it would be better to start.

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