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Two deal breakers: 1. None of the Ui packages out there in Linux is as good as macOS. 1.5. Gestures. Though I can live without one, I've grown accustomed to t

Two deal breakers: 1. None of the Ui packages out there in Linux is as good as macOS. 1.5. Gestures. Though I can live without one, I've grown accustomed to the slick motions. 2. Chinese input on Linux is unusable. It was so confusing I gave up setting it up on my (was) Ubuntu installation.

pmiller2 10y ago
You can get really close on point #1 with some work. I've never looked into gestures, and I don't write Chinese, so I can't speak to those.
- maksimum 10y ago
  Re #1: Yes, maybe I could get the main use cases to approximate OS X well. But (a) I don't want to learn how multiple windowing systems work and how to script them, and (b) then to fine tune them so corner cases are covered: how to integrate Gnome and KDE applications so their menu bars have the same shortcuts for the same operations, use the same font, have the same DPI scaling, etc... It's a never-ending set of options to fiddle with, little cohesive documentation, and no objective criteria to decide when they've been fiddled enough. Not saying it's a fault of Linux, but that's what we get in a open source ecosystem where the kernel team doesn't dictate how the desktop works.
  - pmiller2 10y ago
    I wasn't responding to "approximating OS X," I was saying you can get the UI to be "as good as" OS X, with some work.
    - maksimum 10y ago
      I think the problems I gave examples of do relate to the UI. If not, then what we define as "UI" seems pretty trivial.
denimnerd 10y ago
I use gnome3 and think it's great. 拼音键盘也可以用。 Try Fedora.
a012 10y ago
I've tried Vietnamese on Elementary OS and have to scratch my head just to find how to get and make ibus works. I don't think all other people want to deal with things like this.
syrrim 10y ago
Gestures are easy. Just install libinput-gestures, make it launch on startup, and you're good to go.

pmiller2 10y ago

You can get really close on point #1 with some work. I've never looked into gestures, and I don't write Chinese, so I can't speak to those.

maksimum 10y ago
Re #1: Yes, maybe I could get the main use cases to approximate OS X well. But (a) I don't want to learn how multiple windowing systems work and how to script them, and (b) then to fine tune them so corner cases are covered: how to integrate Gnome and KDE applications so their menu bars have the same shortcuts for the same operations, use the same font, have the same DPI scaling, etc... It's a never-ending set of options to fiddle with, little cohesive documentation, and no objective criteria to decide when they've been fiddled enough. Not saying it's a fault of Linux, but that's what we get in a open source ecosystem where the kernel team doesn't dictate how the desktop works.
- pmiller2 10y ago
  I wasn't responding to "approximating OS X," I was saying you can get the UI to be "as good as" OS X, with some work.
  - maksimum 10y ago
    I think the problems I gave examples of do relate to the UI. If not, then what we define as "UI" seems pretty trivial.

denimnerd 10y ago

I use gnome3 and think it's great. 拼音键盘也可以用。 Try Fedora.

a012 10y ago

I've tried Vietnamese on Elementary OS and have to scratch my head just to find how to get and make ibus works. I don't think all other people want to deal with things like this.

syrrim 10y ago

Gestures are easy. Just install libinput-gestures, make it launch on startup, and you're good to go.