Longtime Mac/Hackintosh user who has been dabbling more into Linux in recent months. I come to it from the mindset of an advanced non-technical professional use

Longtime Mac/Hackintosh user who has been dabbling more into Linux in recent months. I come to it from the mindset of an advanced non-technical professional user—someone who only sometimes has to write code as part of a day job, but is comfortable in a terminal and has a strong understanding of the underlying systems even if I’m not writing an app anytime soon. I’ve been using PopOS a bit of late, and have found their tweaks on Gnome to mostly work pretty well. I have had to swap around keys to get used to the format some—basically my big thing is having the special characters available through the Alt/Option key is important to me as I do a lot of writing and frequently use things like long dashes. One thing I found helped a lot was replacing the caps-lock functionality with the super key, which makes the super functionality easily accessible while still keeping the extended characters within reach. There are apps I wish had stronger equivalents—Alfred immediately comes to mind—as they have helped speed up my workflow in MacOS. And some apps (Photoshop, InDesign) don’t have a replacement strong enough to use as a daily driver. While I’m still mostly MacOS these days, PopOS is pretty likable.