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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by richardboegli »

blunte wrote: post #567

Preview is one of the most underrated pieces of software in the world today. I make the assumption that Quicklook uses Preview (because surely it must). Being able to hit spacebar on just about any kind of selected document/image type file and see a near instant look, multiple pages and all, is so important. Once you don't have that (move to the Windows world), you realize how much you miss it. And you can, with a sm…

There is a Quicklook clone on Windows called Quicklook [0]. Not associated with it, just found it when seeing if there was an equivalent for Windows platform.

https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

easygenes wrote: post #424
masswerk wrote: post #417

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point being, multi-touch was what got the the smartphone revolution going, especially on the Web. Whereas now…

I bought an iPhone on day one in 2007. For me it was more about a nearly-all-screen device with a usable browser and navigation than anything else at that point. Jeez, that’s still mostly what I use it for. Pinch is certainly nice, but I hardly thought about multi touch when looking at the value proposition. The Apple Pencil is what got me to finally buy an iPad (and immediately miss the side-click I’ve been used to…

The second-gen pencil can be tapped on the side with a fingertip while holding it, much like the buttons of old.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Hiopl wrote: post #693
blunte wrote: post #567

Preview is one of the most underrated pieces of software in the world today. I make the assumption that Quicklook uses Preview (because surely it must). Being able to hit spacebar on just about any kind of selected document/image type file and see a near instant look, multiple pages and all, is so important. Once you don't have that (move to the Windows world), you realize how much you miss it. And you can, with a sm…

This exists for Windows though as a third-party application, which points to one of the reasons why Windows is great. There's great software for nearly anything you could think of. It's one of the main things I miss when I use Linux. The usability/functionality in the applications simply isn't there and it will never be there, for whatever reason.

Ha, I'm the other way - you're an 'apt search blah' then 'sudo apt install foo' away from just about any type of software.

Chocolatey has helped bring that closer for me on Windows.

I guess it's probably what ones familiar with/used to.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by mcovey »

pimeys wrote: post #306
sildur wrote: post #216

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Honest question, what's the advantage of pacman over apt?

Apt itself is great, but the PPA repos that make every dist upgrade more complex is kind of not nice. With pacman you have AUR and very simple package scripts, that lets you easily add whatever to your system that's not included in the distribution. With apt this is not that straightforward.

There is "checkinstall" that creates an apt package by watching changes during a "make install" step. So you can install many programs that don't provide .deb packages or only provide source code that way.

https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by jgwil2 »

> Suffice to say, I had both Thunderbird and Gmail open and used either one depending on the task I needed to complete.

Genuinely curious as to what people cannot accomplish in the Gmail web client (or any major web client for that matter) that they can accomplish with the desktop app. I have outlook for work and while I use the desktop client out of habit, plenty of colleagues use the web client exclusively.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by mekster »

blunte wrote: post #689
bdcravens wrote: post #648

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The PDF editing and signature workflow is so good that I never print out PDFs to sign and scan them in any more.

It's so good, so fast, and so easy, (and so obviously useful), I just cannot fathom why Windows doesn't have a comparable answer for this.

Sorry Windows will always be fighting with its own legacy, it cannot move forward.

I don't know why people insist on using Windows.

It's not good on desktop, not good on servers but good for games.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by mekster »

oplav wrote: post #612
blunte wrote: post #567

Preview is one of the most underrated pieces of software in the world today. I make the assumption that Quicklook uses Preview (because surely it must). Being able to hit spacebar on just about any kind of selected document/image type file and see a near instant look, multiple pages and all, is so important. Once you don't have that (move to the Windows world), you realize how much you miss it. And you can, with a sm…

I switched from Windows to OS X over 7 years ago and this is the first time I've ever learned about Quicklook. Looks like a great feature.

How could you miss QuickLook for 7 years!?

Maybe you're missing more.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by konart »

ActorNightly wrote: post #684
konart wrote: post #135

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>If you like Mac, then stay on Mac, and stop publishing articles on how good Macs are and how Linux is neat, but your time is so valuable that you can't spend learning a few commaind line tools. "Stop writing good things about things I hate and bad things about things I like!" > don't get why this narravitve still exists today. Linux works out of the box on many distros perfectly fine. Yeah. And then you connect two…

For every niche feature that you cant do on Linux, I can name a niche feature that you cant do on Mac. And for every reason that you tell me how its not an issue on Macs, I can also tell you that its not an issue on Linux. The point is that this is such a stupid conversation to have.

How is that a niche feature? A lot of people have double monitor setup. Sometimes with a different scaling factor.

Both macOS and Windows can handle it just fine. Linux somehow is is still in the 90s in this regard.

I do agree that the conversation about niche features (or issues) is stupid though. Not like I've started one.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by question11 »

minimaul wrote: post #492
popeathlete wrote: post #389

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No offense, but this largely reads to me like "I don't wanna use Linux because I wanna use Mac". If you want to move to a different system, you can't expect to get the same thing. Really, the only complaints I can agree with now are 2 and 3, the rest is just invalid. You've got kdeconnect gsconnect nextcloud keepassxc many, many configurable mail clients, especially the beatiful, integrated kmail and their whole PIM…

I did explicitly state that my points were very subjective - they are personal opinions and I didn't try to hide that. I also did not try to hide that I like macOS - that's why I use it now, after all. As I explicitly said, my attempts with a linux laptop setup have been primarily an insurance policy against Apple continuing to run the Mac into the ground - not out of idealism. But answers to a few specific points: -…

1) did you try gscan2pdf, pdf arranger, or libreoffice with the pdf?

2) tearing is typically video driver related. Solution for many is to use intels video drivers

3) if you are tied to the apple ecosystem its always going to be easier to stick with it.

4) Most linux users focus on vim shortcuts or terminal/bash shortcuts. Thus the ecosystem will be behind

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