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I love the idea of having a Thinkpad running Linux. But there are a dozen apps on my Mac that I would miss terribly. DEVONthink, OmniGraffle, and many more. I
by submeta 6y ago
I love the idea of having a Thinkpad running Linux. But there are a dozen apps on my Mac that I would miss terribly. DEVONthink, OmniGraffle, and many more.
I was thinking about getting a used ThinkPad for Emacs + Org plus terminal only. A companion for writing in Emacs/org and for doing dev work (Python, Lisp, Bash). This article made me revisit that plan. (Been using ThinkPads from 2006-2015 and loved the experience. Solid rock hardware and best keybord.) But I can‘t think of getting rid of my Mac as it is adding so much quality to my day to day life.
- mason55 6y agoI needed a new laptop and while I’d prefer a MBP I don’t want to buy one right now with the ARM cutover on the horizon. Instead I bought a refurb t460 for like $400 and slapped NixOS/i3wm on it. It’ll hold me over until the ARM release and if I really need anything Mac specific I still have my old MBP.
- TuringNYC 6y agoI've never thought of MacBooks for the apps specifically, but I checked OmniGraffle which looks like a great replacement for Visio. Visio is one of the few things that keeps me occasionally attached to PCs. Could you please share the other Mac-only apps that you'd miss, i'd love to see!
- submeta 6y agoSoftware that is unique to MacOS: - HoudahSpot (search files / documents) - DEVONthink (document management system) - Ulysses app (a markdown writing app; I know there are many, on many platforms) - iA Writer (another markdown writer) - Alfred App (automating) - Keyboard Maestro (automating) - AppleScript (automating) - MailMate - Things3 (task management) - OmniOutliner - OmniFocus - OmniGraffle - PDF Expert (reading / annotating pdfs) - iTerm - aText (text macros) - Timing App (auto time tracking) and many more.