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Exactly. And you don't have to say this and sound arrogant. Our lives, especially with that high work-load we still have to cope with, don't allow us to choose
by VvR-Ox 7y ago
Exactly. And you don't have to say this and sound arrogant.
Our lives, especially with that high work-load we still have to cope with, don't allow us to choose many things to do when not working.
If you have family with kids you loose every tiny bit of freedom to "waste your time" on tinkering and get easily annoyed when things just don't work out of the box.
I like the possibility to customize everything on linux but I also hate how the linux world can't provide the standardization and clarity I am used to from OSX.
How on earth is there still no terminal emulator like iTerm2 on linux????!
From linux I miss the possibility to customize everything on OSX. I hate it how Apple allways tries to lock me into it's golden cage and imposes it's way of thinking on me.
In 80% of times I can totally agree with the apple way but there is 20% when I could throw that MBP against the wall with full force.
Ok I didn't want to start some OSX vs. Linux debate here it's just an example to show the love-hate relationship to both.
It's great there is some effort put into connecting these worlds. The way our economy works is the reason we don't have the computers and OSes we really want to have and sadly only the open source world will change this.
- vaylian 7y ago> How on earth is there still no terminal emulator like iTerm2 on linux????! Genuinely curious: What does iTerm2 do better than any other terminal emulator on Linux?
- abricot 7y agoIt's probably because it has a lot of features that are not unique, but you won't find all of them in a single terminal emulator on Linux. Example, I don't know about a terminal on linux that both works as a drop down terminal (quake-like) & supports inline images. Or split screen & password manager.
- snazz 7y agoFor the split screen functionality, I’d recommend tmux or Terminator. If you try w3m on xterm, you’ll notice that inline images can work. Could someone enlighten me as to why inline images are useful in the first place?
- pjmlp 7y agoImagine something like Jupiter Notebooks as shell. That was the REPL of non-UNIX graphical workstations of uore, and inline images was naturally part of it.
- VvR-Ox 7y ago* The gap between Windows Manager and Terminal is not as wide as with most terminal emulators I know in the linux world (copy&paste, drag&drop, search-function, mouse support, easy (!) image rendering support out of the box...) * User accessible features like the tmux integration (look at this: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html) Just to mention a few advantages. Of course most of the awesome apps like tmux just need you to learn a bunch of new commands but I can't imagine myself doing that a lot over my whole lifetime. Some things I just want to use without a steep learning curve and apps like iTerm2 prove that this is possible. I use the shell a lot since many years but I'm far from using it the way I could imagine it in the 21st century (the shell is still the superior interface for computers in my opinion but I'm afraid this topic didn't really get much attention & innovative approaches in the last decades).
- yoz-y 7y agoOne thing I have not found (admittedly I have not searched much) is to be able to detect patterns printed on screen and launch triggers. E.g.: if something prints on screen "created a job XXX" I can color this text blue and make it an URL pointing to example.com/XXX
- mthoms 7y agoLook for "Triggers" under the "Advanced" tab of your profile. You just need to enter a regex and specify an action.