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heh I have never heard of gnomes keybindings being called "consistent", they dont even have a consistent shortcut to close the window, let alone things like pre

heh I have never heard of gnomes keybindings being called "consistent", they dont even have a consistent shortcut to close the window, let alone things like preferences. that being said I work on osx and ubuntu most days and much prefer ubuntu, the osx window manager is pretty funky and underpowered compared to gnomes and theres a lot of annoyances to get around, the dock thats impossible to get rid of, having to change keyboard layouts etc etc. I have been using the mac close to a year now and still seem to be in a fairly similiar situation of not being comfortable with it, I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu.

nearestneighbor 17y ago
Alt-F4?
- shadowz 17y ago
  CMD-Q?
_delirium 17y ago
> I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu. Is there anything in particular on the MacBooks themselves that Ubuntu doesn't support yet? The main thing I can think of is that Linux with a one-button mouse can be awkward.
- Magneus 17y ago
  Linux has support for this. You can either bind a key or set up a "long press" to be right click.
sandGorgon 17y ago
Go with Dell XPS or Precision laptops - they are usually fully supported by Dell and are quite good hardware (USB 3.0, 16GB max RAM) Dell has incredible compatibility with Linux - somehow a lot of Dell specific utilities have ended up in Ubuntu (e.g. firmware-addon-dell for BIOS handling, dell-recovery for creating Dells specific recover ISO, etc.) Dell's support pages have a lot of info on advanced processes (bios flashing, etc.) from Linux - http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
patrickk 17y ago
You can get rid of the dock when you have the cursor away from it. Check your preferences to change this. I also aligned the dock to the left-hand side to make it less obtrusive.
- jff 17y ago
  "Let me just grab the edge of this window OH HELLO THERE MISTER DOCK! Glad you decided to pop up right where I was clicking, now we can enjoy the wait while OpenOffice loads!"
- Magneus 17y ago
  This can also be set by hitting, uh "option command D," I believe.

nearestneighbor 17y ago

Alt-F4?

shadowz 17y ago
CMD-Q?

_delirium 17y ago

> I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu. Is there anything in particular on the MacBooks themselves that Ubuntu doesn't support yet? The main thing I can think of is that Linux with a one-button mouse can be awkward.

Magneus 17y ago
Linux has support for this. You can either bind a key or set up a "long press" to be right click.

sandGorgon 17y ago

Go with Dell XPS or Precision laptops - they are usually fully supported by Dell and are quite good hardware (USB 3.0, 16GB max RAM) Dell has incredible compatibility with Linux - somehow a lot of Dell specific utilities have ended up in Ubuntu (e.g. firmware-addon-dell for BIOS handling, dell-recovery for creating Dells specific recover ISO, etc.) Dell's support pages have a lot of info on advanced processes (bios flashing, etc.) from Linux - http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

patrickk 17y ago

You can get rid of the dock when you have the cursor away from it. Check your preferences to change this. I also aligned the dock to the left-hand side to make it less obtrusive.

jff 17y ago
"Let me just grab the edge of this window OH HELLO THERE MISTER DOCK! Glad you decided to pop up right where I was clicking, now we can enjoy the wait while OpenOffice loads!"
Magneus 17y ago
This can also be set by hitting, uh "option command D," I believe.