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I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else. Plus there's no good power management on laptop

I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else. Plus there's no good power management on laptops and no PC ever came out with a quality trackpad that can match macbook.

josteink 10y ago
> I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else Please elaborate. I mean... Universal copy paste has just been working the last 20 years... Unless I'm missing something basic?
- somecallitblues 10y ago
  I remember that ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work across applications. I think Terminal was one of them. Couldn't copy and paste into it. Out of the box anyway.
  - dagw 10y ago
    Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this. Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.
    - viraptor 10y ago
      Either that or select - right click - copy/paste. It all works, but the shortcuts don't align. Ctrl-c is sigint, ctrl+v varies, but in vim it escapes special key press.
    - crottypeter 10y ago
      Yes. I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.
      - philsnow 10y ago
        > Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying. I use hammerspoon to paper over a lot of the annoying parts of macos (after using linux on desktop+laptop for over a decade). Here's a minimal excerpt from my config to get a more-reasonable "maximize" behavior: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d23e603 https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d2...
      - ashark 10y ago
        Install Spectacle. [cmd]+[alt]+[f] for actual maximize (NOT fullscreen). Replace the f with left arrow and you get half pane left, same with right, or up... you get the idea. Switch alt for ctrl with the same commands to send to the top quarters of the screen, add a shift to that to send it to the bottom quarters. I don't move windows with the mouse on OSX/MacOS anymore.
    - vinw 10y ago
      shift-insert pastes anywhere, including into the terminal.
  - j7ake 10y ago
    This is why I prefer OSX,the command + V works in terminal because command + V is not mapped to anything in the terminal.
    - Gracana 10y ago
      I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work everywhere. It messes me up when I go to a Windows machine and find that ctrl-w closes my window when I just wanted to delete a word.
  - abrowne 10y ago
    In MATE Terminal, and I think GNOME Terminal, you can chance the keybindings to remove the shift — and if you do this, you can send ^C with shift-control-c.
  - nommm-nommm 10y ago
    That's a limitation (or rather idiosyncratic behavior) of Terminal not Ubuntu. Copy/paste works everywhere else.

josteink 10y ago

> I tried Ubuntu and couldn't get over the ugly font and not being able copy paste from anything to anything else Please elaborate. I mean... Universal copy paste has just been working the last 20 years... Unless I'm missing something basic?

somecallitblues 10y ago
I remember that ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work across applications. I think Terminal was one of them. Couldn't copy and paste into it. Out of the box anyway.
- dagw 10y ago
  Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this. Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.
  - viraptor 10y ago
    Either that or select - right click - copy/paste. It all works, but the shortcuts don't align. Ctrl-c is sigint, ctrl+v varies, but in vim it escapes special key press.
  - crottypeter 10y ago
    Yes. I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.
    - philsnow 10y ago
      > Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying. I use hammerspoon to paper over a lot of the annoying parts of macos (after using linux on desktop+laptop for over a decade). Here's a minimal excerpt from my config to get a more-reasonable "maximize" behavior: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d23e603 https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d2...
    - ashark 10y ago
      Install Spectacle. [cmd]+[alt]+[f] for actual maximize (NOT fullscreen). Replace the f with left arrow and you get half pane left, same with right, or up... you get the idea. Switch alt for ctrl with the same commands to send to the top quarters of the screen, add a shift to that to send it to the bottom quarters. I don't move windows with the mouse on OSX/MacOS anymore.
  - vinw 10y ago
    shift-insert pastes anywhere, including into the terminal.
- j7ake 10y ago
  This is why I prefer OSX,the command + V works in terminal because command + V is not mapped to anything in the terminal.
  - Gracana 10y ago
    I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work everywhere. It messes me up when I go to a Windows machine and find that ctrl-w closes my window when I just wanted to delete a word.
- abrowne 10y ago
  In MATE Terminal, and I think GNOME Terminal, you can chance the keybindings to remove the shift — and if you do this, you can send ^C with shift-control-c.
- nommm-nommm 10y ago
  That's a limitation (or rather idiosyncratic behavior) of Terminal not Ubuntu. Copy/paste works everywhere else.