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I did explicitly state that my points were very subjective - they are personal opinions and I didn't try to hide that. I also did not try to hide that I like ma
by minimaul 6y ago
I did explicitly state that my points were very subjective - they are personal opinions and I didn't try to hide that. I also did not try to hide that I like macOS - that's why I use it now, after all. As I explicitly said, my attempts with a linux laptop setup have been primarily an insurance policy against Apple continuing to run the Mac into the ground - not out of idealism.
But answers to a few specific points:
- Okular fails to render weird PDFs for me - things like NXP datasheets are notable for this. It is my usual PDF reader on Linux though. Additionally, the few features I called out were not an exhaustive list, just examples. Preview also makes it very easy to do things like combine PDFs or remove pages from existing PDFs, or do things like crop all of the pages in a PDF in one operation - this is surprisingly useful!.
- tearing is something I have never managed to actually completely eliminate. I can get rid of it for the most part on single display setups (although setting TearFree introduces video stuttering on intel), but on multi-display setups I have never managed to lose it - on both intel & amd's OSS stacks, and on nvidia's proprietary driver. I fully admit this is something that disproportionately annoys me and that others may not care about, but it's a solved issue on Windows and macOS and has been for years. Using wayland instead of X11 resulted in a lot of apps getting very poor performance or flat breaking when rendering - but every time I try wayland it has gotten a lot better since the last time. But replacing a 30+ year old windowing system with a new one is a pretty huge undertaking, so I'm not surprised it's taking a while!
- things like kdeconnect/gsconnect etc don't support integration with iOS. It's not their fault - iOS is restrictive and Apple keep it that way very deliberately, but it achieves their aim very well - it keeps people tied in to Apple's ecosystem. Losing all of the niceties at once is pretty jarring - and even if I replace everything at once, eg going macOS -> linux and iOS -> android, etc it still doesn't end up as fully integrated.
- question11 6y ago1) did you try gscan2pdf, pdf arranger, or libreoffice with the pdf? 2) tearing is typically video driver related. Solution for many is to use intels video drivers 3) if you are tied to the apple ecosystem its always going to be easier to stick with it. 4) Most linux users focus on vim shortcuts or terminal/bash shortcuts. Thus the ecosystem will be behind