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Which tools would you have to give up?

bdcravens 7y ago
Some of the most obvious things I'd give up: - ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports - ability to copy and paste to/from my phone - Transmit - I really haven't found many good s3 clients on Linux - ScreenFlow - Git Tower Most of these have some sort of a work-around or close analog of course. (So I'd likely not be "giving anything up" as much as compromising or learning new techniques) However, I'm not sold on the benefits (other than ideological ones, the only thing that comes to mind is increased Docker performance) outweighing the costs. For someone with a different workflow and set of tools, a different conclusion may result.
- j88439h84 7y ago
  > ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports Doesn't xrandr do that?
  - toyg 7y ago
    Problem with xrandr is figuring out how and where to run it automatically.
- jaaames 7y ago
  Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.
  - SuperPaintMan 7y ago
    Check out KDE Connect, it's a great piece of software for copy/paste, remote inputs and more. Will even wake your computers up when you walk in the door :)
- nicoburns 7y ago
  Sublime Merge is a pretty good alternative to Git Tower.
sincerely 7y ago
iTerm
cpach 7y ago
Some applications I would miss: 1Password / Preview / Acorn / Evernote / Skitch / Pingplotter / djay
- 29athrowaway 7y ago
  https://keepassxc.org/ https://keepassxc.org/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi/tree/master/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi/tree/master/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_sushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_sushi https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/ https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/ https://github.com/klaussinani/tusk https://github.com/klaussinani/tusk https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP https://www.mixxx.org/features/ https://www.mixxx.org/features/
  - randomchars 7y ago
    While these may do some or all of the apps OP mentioned, the UX of most of them, even from the screenshot seems horrid.
    - cpach 7y ago
      To each their own, but yes, personally I find the UX of Mac GUI applications to be generally a lot more appealing compared to the alternatives available on Linux.
    - 29athrowaway 7y ago
      These projects were developed by volunteers and are distributed free of charge. No need to be a jerk. Plus if there's something you don't like you can always pull the code, modify what you need and submit a pull request. I use Linux everyday and I prefer a slightly off UI once in a while than having to deal with the frustratingly sluggish performance of macOS.

Some of the most obvious things I'd give up: - ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports - ability to copy and paste to/from my phone - Transmit - I really haven't found many good s3 clients on Linux - ScreenFlow - Git Tower Most of these have some sort of a work-around or close analog of course. (So I'd likely not be "giving anything up" as much as compromising or learning new techniques) However, I'm not sold on the benefits (other than ideological ones, the only thing that comes to mind is increased Docker performance) outweighing the costs. For someone with a different workflow and set of tools, a different conclusion may result.

j88439h84 7y ago
> ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports Doesn't xrandr do that?
- toyg 7y ago
  Problem with xrandr is figuring out how and where to run it automatically.
jaaames 7y ago
Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.
- SuperPaintMan 7y ago
  Check out KDE Connect, it's a great piece of software for copy/paste, remote inputs and more. Will even wake your computers up when you walk in the door :)
nicoburns 7y ago
Sublime Merge is a pretty good alternative to Git Tower.

sincerely 7y ago

iTerm

cpach 7y ago

Some applications I would miss: 1Password / Preview / Acorn / Evernote / Skitch / Pingplotter / djay

29athrowaway 7y ago
https://keepassxc.org/ https://keepassxc.org/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi/tree/master/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi/tree/master/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_sushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_sushi https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/ https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/ https://github.com/klaussinani/tusk https://github.com/klaussinani/tusk https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP https://www.mixxx.org/features/ https://www.mixxx.org/features/
- randomchars 7y ago
  While these may do some or all of the apps OP mentioned, the UX of most of them, even from the screenshot seems horrid.
  - cpach 7y ago
    To each their own, but yes, personally I find the UX of Mac GUI applications to be generally a lot more appealing compared to the alternatives available on Linux.
  - 29athrowaway 7y ago
    These projects were developed by volunteers and are distributed free of charge. No need to be a jerk. Plus if there's something you don't like you can always pull the code, modify what you need and submit a pull request. I use Linux everyday and I prefer a slightly off UI once in a while than having to deal with the frustratingly sluggish performance of macOS.