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i switched to linux a few years and it was really tough losing the 5 years of ahk scripts i had built up, but windows was annoying me that much that i had to sw

i switched to linux a few years and it was really tough losing the 5 years of ahk scripts i had built up, but windows was annoying me that much that i had to switch. you need multiple programs on linux to do something similar to ahk and nothing ive tried has come close to how simple ahk is or how you can make complex key mappings with it. i have got into python though and have been able to do some fun stuff with that so there's that at least

criddell 3y ago
> you need multiple programs on Linux Why is that? Is there something about Linux that makes it difficult to do all the stuff AHK can do on Windows?
- pie_flavor 3y ago
  In Windows, everything is part of the operating system. You just set the window flags, you just beep the audio, you just send WM_CLOSE, you just disable MouseKeys. In Linux, everything is a specific program, with a name, and with commonly used alternatives. Your program to move a window to a particular location must be compatible with the program for having windows at all (X or Wayland), the program for laying windows out (dwm? KWin?), and probably the program for the desktop (GNOME? KDE?). The net effect is one where a user is probably able to write their own AHK-style scripts, but sharing them around is basically impossible, and figuring out what to do is much harder due to navigating a forest of tool-specific documentation.