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This is excellent and indeed largely novel information, thank you. It sounds like the finding right combination of DE and package management solution plays a b
by BruceEel 6y ago
This is excellent and indeed largely novel information, thank you.
It sounds like the finding right combination of DE and package management solution plays a big role here. I don't remember much of my experience with Gentoo's package manager in the early 2000's other than finding it generally did its job (if a bit slowly)... Experience with package managers on Mac (brew, macports) hasn't been great so I'm eager to play around with modern ones on Linux. Same goes for the DE actually: stock, out-of-the-box, macOS is essentially unusable for me until I get my customization (scroll, trackpad, KeyboardMaestro) done exactly right, I can't imagine this not being better on Linux, if anything for the ability to switch among the various DE's.
I'm starting to contemplate this (fully untested) strategy: trying out a few distros and installing the one I like best on VMWare Fusion and then try to use it as much as possible, falling back to macOS if I get stuck or I'm short on time but gradually replacing Mac-specific stuff as I find suitable replacements.. TextMate, the masterpiece of Allan Odgaard (author of the article being discussed here) probably going to be the toughest one. If I'm successful, I should eventually be able to let Linux 'out of the box' and run it on real hardware..
PS: amiwm! This is going to be a must. I do miss the Amiga, a fair bit..
- kick 6y agoMy favorite package managers, personally: xbps apk (terrible interface; wonderful technically) pacman (wonderful interface; so-so technically; dislike the distro that uses it because of technical choices) InstallPackage (GoboLinux is kind of cheating, because InstallPackage isn't a "real" package manager, but that's kind of the point) I love TextMate, too! Something you might find nice is how easy it is to run Mac in a VM on Linux; there are scripts that manage the entire thing for you, and it's pretty painless (and so fast; I was surprised). Useful if you have a few packages you can't find replacements for. You mention Apple Music elsewhere, which you might be interested to know has an Android client and a web client, and you can probably get a native client on Linux, though I'm not immediately aware of one.
- BruceEel 6y ago> I love TextMate, too! Something you might find nice is how easy it is to run Mac in a VM on Linux; there are scripts that manage the entire thing for you, and it's pretty painless (and so fast; I was surprised). That would be excellent! I like the idea of swapping host and guest with this VM strategy, sort of evolutionary platform switching.
- kick 6y agoTake a look at this! It's pretty simple; it just fetches macOS and then gives you a shell script that launches qemu with a few flags: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM Really, really fast, and fairly painless.