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It's staggering the amount of things I can do on Linux. One basic feature that I can't believe isn't on macOS or Windows is in Xfce, where I can right-click a w

It's staggering the amount of things I can do on Linux. One basic feature that I can't believe isn't on macOS or Windows is in Xfce, where I can right-click a window titlebar and put it always on top. I'm sure Windows has the capacity to do this - WinAmp iirc lets the user toggle this in the app - but I can't do it for programs like Firefox. It's the little things that make me like Linux, things like that. It's endlessly customizable, and if nobody's made something I want yet, I can just make it myself. Nobody's stopping me. Plus, it doesn't have Candy Crush preinstalled in the year 2020.

shultays 6y ago
Funny thing is it was that little things that made me switch to windows as well. The last time I tried to usimg ubuntu, I wasn't able to drag drop a subtitle file from an archieve directly to vlc. I had to drag it to a temp folder to decompress it. And then I was able to drag that subtitle file to vlc
m463 6y ago
You're right. I have a ubuntu machine I have to use and being able to set it up to match my macos keystrokes (like cmd-n for new terminal window, cmd-k to reset terminal, etc) was ... key, so to speak. Of course customization can also fix stuff. It was maddening when dragging a window to graze the menu bar at the top and have it maximize. ugh. (magic setting: edge-tiling=false in two places)
PhilippGille 6y ago
You can just install a tool that allows you to do that. Dexpot [1] is one of those. Its main feature was to allow you to have multiple workspaces back when Windows didn't have that natively. In a similar way, back when Windows didn't allow you to move individual taskbar items you could install a tool like Taskbar Shuffle [2] for that. So in many cases you can simply extend the features of the OS with tools. And you can even choose which one to use. That's not too bad, right? And no one's stopping you from writing your own tools either :) . [1] https://dexpot.de/ https://dexpot.de/ [2] https://nerdcave.com/projects https://nerdcave.com/projects

shultays 6y ago

Funny thing is it was that little things that made me switch to windows as well. The last time I tried to usimg ubuntu, I wasn't able to drag drop a subtitle file from an archieve directly to vlc. I had to drag it to a temp folder to decompress it. And then I was able to drag that subtitle file to vlc

m463 6y ago

You're right. I have a ubuntu machine I have to use and being able to set it up to match my macos keystrokes (like cmd-n for new terminal window, cmd-k to reset terminal, etc) was ... key, so to speak. Of course customization can also fix stuff. It was maddening when dragging a window to graze the menu bar at the top and have it maximize. ugh. (magic setting: edge-tiling=false in two places)

PhilippGille 6y ago

You can just install a tool that allows you to do that. Dexpot [1] is one of those. Its main feature was to allow you to have multiple workspaces back when Windows didn't have that natively. In a similar way, back when Windows didn't allow you to move individual taskbar items you could install a tool like Taskbar Shuffle [2] for that. So in many cases you can simply extend the features of the OS with tools. And you can even choose which one to use. That's not too bad, right? And no one's stopping you from writing your own tools either :) . [1] https://dexpot.de/ https://dexpot.de/ [2] https://nerdcave.com/projects https://nerdcave.com/projects