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I think you are looking at this problem from the wrong perspective. I was also making this mistake too in the past. You cannot beat MacOS in its own game, poli
by nextos 10y ago
I think you are looking at this problem from the wrong perspective.
I was also making this mistake too in the past. You cannot beat MacOS in its own game, polished object-oriented Apps reminiscent of NeXTStep with a lot of indie offerings.
You need to realise polish means something different in Linux. It means classic open-source text-mode keyboard-driven file-configured programs that do one thing, do it well and are easy to compose in the Unix tradition. URxvt, emacs, vim, mutt, mbsync, zathura, irssi, etc.
Obviously most of these are portable and thus not exclusive of Linux. But you will get most of them in Linux, running a minimal tiling window manager like XMonad and a good package manager like pacman, nix or guix.
This takes time to master, but in my opinion can't be beaten and will not become out of fashion easily.
- danieldk 10y agoYou need to realise polish means something different in Linux. It means classic open-source text-mode keyboard-driven file-configured programs that do one thing, do it well and are easy to compose in the Unix tradition. URxvt, emacs, vim, mutt, mbsync, zathura, irssi, etc. [...] This takes time to master, but in my opinion can't be beaten and will not become out of fashion easily. Unfortunately, terminal apps do not help with RAW editing, editing vector graphics or diagramming (replacing OmniGraffle). For these reasons, if I'd flee from macOS, Windows would currently make more sense. There are better replacements for macOS applications and the Linux subsystem holds a lot of promise.
- bunderbunder 10y agoThat is precisely the kind of polish that I love to have in my Vagrant instances. But it's not the kind of polish I want in my desktop environment.