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Haha, off-by-one pixel error! I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve a
by tanelpoder 2y ago
Haha, off-by-one pixel error!
I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps.
I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most important file - notes.txt - regularly disappears from the Spotlight index and suggestions. It’s been like that for at least 5 years, probably closer to 10. I’m not even trying anymore, will just open the file from command line with vi as the fallback step.
- stonethrowaway 2y agoSpeaking of bad vision for a moment I thought I read “I still see MsDOS as the best choice” and almost yelled out what patrician taste!
- tanelpoder 2y agoWell, you can run multitasking in TSRs & keyboard interrupt handlers (the original event loop)… implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader…
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader… I'm pretty sure both of those have implementations available for DOS already.
- tanelpoder 2y agoI recalled something from distant past - MSDOS multitasking with DESQView (apparently the same vendor who built QEMM): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
- jval43 2y agoFunnily enough a simple fgrep is super fast on SSDs and actually reliable. Even across TBs of data. With Spotlight you can never be sure. And to be fair, the Windows equivalent sucks just as much.
- tanelpoder 2y agoYeah I sometimes use ripgrep for this. It’s suspiciously fast!
- darkwater 2y ago> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH) If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.
- baq 2y agoWhich Linux laptop do you recommend?
- haskman 2y agoTry a Lenovo (thinkpad or ideapad), or a System76, or Tuxedo. Those are generally the most Linux friendly devices.
- kiwijamo 2y agoIt should be noted that the build quality of the ThinkPad are much higher than the IdeaPad. I have both and the IdeaPad is more or less on par with other cheap consumer laptops.
- haskman 2y agoFor sure, but they are also much cheaper
- 71bw 2y ago>It should be noted that the build quality of the ThinkPad are much higher than the IdeaPad. And still, they've fallen so low in recent years I don't see it being drastically better nowadays. Had a T495 for a while. Worst laptop I've had in a decade.
- gmokki 2y agoThinkpad P14s series with AMD, they make sure it is fully supported on Linux. I would take the just arrived gen 5 AMD because of the new Zen5 cores. Same perf than with Zen4, but much lower power consumption.
- eru 2y ago> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), [...] Almost anything will do for those?
- johnwalkr 2y agoRecently windows has become much better for things a linux or macOS user takes for granted, like using ssh (a quick google search tells you how to install it using powershell), but is missing a lot of features. Two recent examples for me are taking 5 minutes to figure out how to install and use rsync, and taking 10 minutes finding a program to add/delete pages from a pdf file that's not a trial or demo of some kind.
- eru 2y agoSSH clients have been easy on Windows for at least 20 years: just use Putty. And there's also at least on Chrome extension that works as an SSH client. But you are right, that Windows doesn't come (or didn't come?) with one out-of-the-box. In any case, I can see that those addition things like rsync or PDF manipulation might differ between the different operating systems. I was really just talking about browser plus ssh (client).
- layer8 2y agoThat’s pretty quick?