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Gosh, I thought I was the only one! I've only recently noticed this because of setting up my latest Linux laptop. (I use a MBP for work because every tech comp

by godot 8y ago

Gosh, I thought I was the only one! I've only recently noticed this because of setting up my latest Linux laptop. (I use a MBP for work because every tech company just gives you one now without an option for another OS.) I wanted a modern Linux laptop personally for hobby work so I bought a PC one and installed Antergos Linux on it. Antergos comes with Gnome by default (unless you select something else on install). Modern Gnome (3.28 in my case) was made to be pretty similar to macOS. Permanent top bar with status icons on the right, dash-to-dock which basically behaves like macOS's dock, and so on. Lots of eye candy animation as you switch between apps / desktop spaces, etc. I'm fairly happy with it, but then I had to open up my very old laptop with CentOS 7 (with KDE Plasma for UI) installed on it to clear it out and finally get rid of it; and found myself instantly feeling good and productive with that old school KDE style UI (which was made to be similar to old school Windows. Not even Win10, but like the WinXP/Vista time with start menu and taskbar with rectangular tabs at the bottom). I'm actually thinking about installing KDE on this new laptop and switching over now; but I just spent a lot of time configuring everything in Gnome to my liking and feel like I'd keep this for a while first.

ggm 8y ago
The gun coder at work went to a lenovo Carbon X1 running the release of Linux which drives it best and he's happy and productive and has no MBP envy. After touchbar, I am very tempted to make the same move when renewal time comes round.
- some_account 8y ago
  I want to make the switch too but the apps are simply not of the same quality. For example I use Bear on mac for notes and screenshots, and nothing nothing on Linux could paste a screen shot from clip board into a notes taking program. There are many small things like this.... Otherwise I would love to use a carbon with Linux.

by godot 8y ago

ggm 8y ago

The gun coder at work went to a lenovo Carbon X1 running the release of Linux which drives it best and he's happy and productive and has no MBP envy. After touchbar, I am very tempted to make the same move when renewal time comes round.

some_account 8y ago
I want to make the switch too but the apps are simply not of the same quality. For example I use Bear on mac for notes and screenshots, and nothing nothing on Linux could paste a screen shot from clip board into a notes taking program. There are many small things like this.... Otherwise I would love to use a carbon with Linux.