4 ms·

Tried to switch to Linux like a month ago, main gripes: 1) Typing sudo before everything. Entering your password everytime OS farts. Geez. Even installing node

by ldev 10y ago

Tried to switch to Linux like a month ago, main gripes: 1) Typing sudo before everything. Entering your password everytime OS farts. Geez. Even installing nodejs required to type sudo, meanwhile on macOS - brew install node. Also Ubuntu has outdated packages (nodejs version in their "up do date" repository starts with a zero, need to hunt down ppas, I mean at this point package repository loses it's point, because it's easier to go to the package's website and download it than googling out two ppas and checking which one is more legit, buut then you run into another issue - windows has exe files, macos has dmg files, linux has a zip file and it's not recommended to install this way, what a royal mess). 2) No good dock software. There's plank, xfce, kde provides almost "docks", but all plainly suck. What I want from dock - notifications in dock on app icon (you got 2 unread messages in skype, mail app, messenger, etc etc - show a little overlay on the icon with number "2") and tasks in submenu - right click on skype icon - common tasks like changing online status, right click on music player icon - show Play/Pause, Skip song, etc etc. There's a bazillion choices and every linux fanboy touts about the POWER OF CHOICE - but all choices suck (so you could say there's no choice, there's even no one option). 3) I really love global app menu. Well, I was told Linux has THE customizability... Apparently not when you want something more technically difficult than one of the same tilling wm or conky config - for the most part using jaytana and vala global menu worked, but IntelliJ IDEA's globbal menu entries did nothing on click and some gtk3 software didn't hid their own app menu, so not really working well. Customizability my ass. I like linux on server, it's allright there (although FreeBSD with clearly defined base system and /usr is actually designed), but as a desktop OS - not even close.

Sean1708 10y ago
It might be worth giving ApricityOS[0] a try next time you fancy delving into Linux, I've a lot of good things from ex-Mac users who switched to it. [0]: https://apricityos.com/ https://apricityos.com/
- ldev 10y ago
  Thanks. I try out Linux every year and it's getting better, I mean Linux gets 95% of things right (if not right - atleast you can live with it), but devil's in the details and those remaining little 5% really piss me off. Like xfce - program can change it's state or w/e to busy for 50 ms and you get the loading spinner near your cursor for 50 ms. So cursor just "blinks" with loading spinner. Sometimes repeatedly. Somehow never noticed that on macOS - either applications are designed better and only known long tasks change the cursor, or there's a system wide control - show spinner near cursor only if app was in busy state for 500 ms or something. This year tried out Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro and Solus. Well, Solus on boot on my system had a black screen, and when booted in VirtualBox on Windows - black screen but atleast network notification showed that I'm connected to the internet, after I dismissed the notification - black screen again.
simula67 10y ago
> Entering your password everytime OS farts You can add the NOPASSWD option to your sudoers file. Something like this : ldev ALL=(ALL:ALL)NOPASSWD: ALL to /etc/sudoers > Even installing nodejs required to type sudo You can alias 'apt-get' to 'sudo apt-get'. No more forgetting to type sudo Your larger point about Linux usability is valid. There is a lack of the attention to detail with Linux, probably because of the dearth of resources since people furiously refuse to monetize the ecosystem

by ldev 10y ago

Sean1708 10y ago

It might be worth giving ApricityOS[0] a try next time you fancy delving into Linux, I've a lot of good things from ex-Mac users who switched to it. [0]: https://apricityos.com/ https://apricityos.com/

ldev 10y ago
Thanks. I try out Linux every year and it's getting better, I mean Linux gets 95% of things right (if not right - atleast you can live with it), but devil's in the details and those remaining little 5% really piss me off. Like xfce - program can change it's state or w/e to busy for 50 ms and you get the loading spinner near your cursor for 50 ms. So cursor just "blinks" with loading spinner. Sometimes repeatedly. Somehow never noticed that on macOS - either applications are designed better and only known long tasks change the cursor, or there's a system wide control - show spinner near cursor only if app was in busy state for 500 ms or something. This year tried out Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro and Solus. Well, Solus on boot on my system had a black screen, and when booted in VirtualBox on Windows - black screen but atleast network notification showed that I'm connected to the internet, after I dismissed the notification - black screen again.

simula67 10y ago

> Entering your password everytime OS farts You can add the NOPASSWD option to your sudoers file. Something like this : ldev ALL=(ALL:ALL)NOPASSWD: ALL to /etc/sudoers > Even installing nodejs required to type sudo You can alias 'apt-get' to 'sudo apt-get'. No more forgetting to type sudo Your larger point about Linux usability is valid. There is a lack of the attention to detail with Linux, probably because of the dearth of resources since people furiously refuse to monetize the ecosystem