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My LG Ultrafine sometimes charges the framework laptop and sometimes not. Mostly not! Neat!NGL, I think Apple gets a ton of credit for making these issues just go away.
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gnome terminal is not fun, so I'm using Ghostty on Linux as it is way easier to configure and overall nicer. On macOS it's not better than Terminal.app and actually worse since it kills my battery, but...
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Way back when, I was moving back to the DC area from SF and my main criteria for a job was could I use Linux (instead of Windows). At that time, everything was configured in files, and GUI apps were...
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The stuff I rely on Mac that I don't see happening in Linux:- _consistent_ and prolific keyboard shortcuts- fantastical- thunderbolt monitor charging- photo editing/photos in general (too locked into...
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That said, this could be eminently usable for web dev. My https://devbox.computer based dev environment Just Worked. I installed git and Docker and that's it, and I am doing development without...
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Amazingly, my outboard USB headphone amp was detected by Linux and works AND the knob on my Keychron keyboard just worked as well!Meanwhile, 1password is very fragile. The browser plugins can't connect...
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I also discovered the joys of "app switching" vs "window switching". On macOS, you only switch apps and then only switch windows inside that app. On Linux, you can switch apps, sortof, but not all...
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A lot of this is just friction against what I'm used to and not always "the Mac way is objectively better". I think Mac has far more consistency and out-of-the-box working. It's SwiftUI/AppKit rough...
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FirefoxPWA extension seems like a decent hack to run PWAs. I've been trying to run stuff like Masto, BlueSky, etc. as web apps, so I can alt-tab to them but also not have to have an app.
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Since these sites have responsive views, it works well. Here's what it looks like:
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I may be approaching the "fun because you can tweak things" phase of Desktop Linux. I wish I had been taking notes so I could apply all these changes to a fresh install, but I will at least remember...
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Additional victories I was not expecting:- logitech webcam just works (though looks like hell)- fingerprint-to-auth continues to work seamlessly- On macOS, EVERY TIME I open it, my LG monitor is very...
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I have ordered a mouse for the first time in probably 20 years to see if that is a better experience than the trackpad.I plan to do all dev work next week with this and see how it is.
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OMG three finger swipe changed workspaces!!! The bar is clearly low on Linux for me :)What is the "Maps that is not google maps" alternative people use? OpenStreetMap seems OK, but also very, I dunno,...
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Using Mastodon and Bluesky only as webapps: Mastodon seems to be able to seamless refresh with new content. Bluesky notsomuch.I do miss Ivory and will likely buy TapBots Bluesky client. During the...
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Bluesky's "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" are OK. Ivory's equivalents are usually pretty good. Mastodon's explore seems OK (is this the same as Ivory's?)
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One of the reasons I got this Linux box was to really do dev on it to challenge assumptions in https://devbox.computerRealizing that running as root is not ideal, since on Linux Docker is not a VM, so...
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I had been running on my Mac as non-root to see how it worked. It worked well, except Docker in Docker did not work, since it expected access to the /var thingy and my user-in-container didn't have...
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Desktop Linux is proof that the Single Responsibility Principle is both a way to make everyone hate life due to complexity and a way to allow infinite flexibility for the fussy.
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I don't know if this is a Kagi thing, but often a search will have, as the first result, a stack overflow question that is a) marked as a duplicate, and b) exactly answers the question I had.
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