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Great point. I recently bought the new MBP with Touchbar and was hesitant for the myriad reasons that were previously mentioned. Before I pulled the trigger I
by SnowingXIV 10y ago
Great point. I recently bought the new MBP with Touchbar and was hesitant for the myriad reasons that were previously mentioned.
Before I pulled the trigger I went to setup my dev environment on a fresh Linux partition at home (mainly a windows machine). I was fighting things all over the place to get it to a state of usefulness and productivity. I spent too much time doing this and still kept running into little issues here and there when needing to install certain things, run particular apps, and getting to switch over to a different workflow. I couldn't afford wasting this much time in the office.
I ordered up the new MBP, installed everything, setup time machine, and bam within a few moments and pulls, npm commands, etc I was fully functional. Very little issues and it felt incredibly good. My biggest gripe was ordering a few adapters but now that doesn't pose any more issues to me.
- DoodleBuggy 10y agoHow do you like not having a real escape key?
- gizmo385 10y agoI don't have the new MBP, but how often do you really use the escape key? I'm use solely vim for my development work and I almost never encounter a need to use the escape key.
- shock 10y agoHow do you exit insert mode?
- 58028641 10y agoUsing caps lock as escape is pretty common. I think there is a virtual escape button on the touch bar.
- eridius 10y agoThere is a virtual escape. Personally, I have "jk" mapped to escape (whereas Caps Lock is rebound to Control system-wide).
- Fnoord 10y agoHow did you accomplish this without an external program?
- eridius 10y agoWhich, "jk" or Caps Lock? The "jk" mapping is just in Vim. As for Caps Lock, if you go to System Preferences, and the Keyboard prefpane, there's a button "Modifier Keys…" in the lower-right corner that lets you remap the modifier keys (including Caps Lock) to other modifiers. So I just use that to remap Caps Lock to Control.
- 8draco8 10y agoI will disagree because difficulty of dev env setup highly depends on dev stack and most of them are easier to configure on linux. First of all on Linux you have to know what you are doing. Linux is first and foremost a system build by sysadmins for sysadmins. Of course a lot of stuff was done by developers but to properly manage dev environment installed on linux you have to be at least partially sysadmin. If you are looking to install full dev stack as all in one package then look elsewhere
- antoniuschan99 10y agoI think he did which was OSX