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What are your gripes with linux desktops?

by shit_game 1mo ago

TSiege 1mo ago
what’re your gripes with people wanting to buy a Mac for the OS and hardware? It’s nice to have things work out the box
- xp84 1mo ago
  oh cool, where can I get a Mac that does that?
fooster 1mo ago
Apart from anything else the keybindings are the most annoying thing ever.
- deleted 1mo ago
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- tstrimple 1mo ago
  My NixOS + Hyprland desktop largely has the same shortcuts as OSX. I super+space for launching things. Super+Q for quitting. Custom keybinds are trivial. I always thought KDE and Gnome were kind of garbage, but Hyprland gets out of the way and really lets me build the desktop environment I want.
- NamlchakKhandro 1mo ago
  Lmao keyboard shortcuts in Linux are AMAZING. In that I can make them what ever I want
  - saagarjha 1mo ago
    You can usually do the same for macOS and from a single place to boot
- shit_game 1mo ago
  I can get that being annoying. I enjoy that keybinds are a configurable thing in the linux distributions and DEs that I've used, and I've found that most tend to have sane defaults. I assume that the situation is similar in macOS, but I don't know. The last time I've used any version of macOS was in 2008 during school, and I was far too young to really "get" computers, so I never experienced them in the way that I assume many people do now. The only other Apple products I've used since has been some combination of fourth gen and seventh gen ipod nanos (which were excellent, save for windows iTunes). Is there some secret sauce that Apple has that I'm just unexposed to that makes it wonderful?
  - fooster 1mo ago
    I've used linux desktops for years, and in my experience it is quite difficult to fight against the default keybindings. It is much easier to go with the status quo, which is annoying especially if you regularly switch between a mac and linux machine.
- alerighi 1mo ago
  Really in Linux you can setup then do do whatever you want, you can setup them the same of Windows or MacOS if you want.

What are your gripes with linux desktops?

TSiege 1mo ago

what’re your gripes with people wanting to buy a Mac for the OS and hardware? It’s nice to have things work out the box

xp84 1mo ago
oh cool, where can I get a Mac that does that?

fooster 1mo ago

Apart from anything else the keybindings are the most annoying thing ever.

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tstrimple 1mo ago
My NixOS + Hyprland desktop largely has the same shortcuts as OSX. I super+space for launching things. Super+Q for quitting. Custom keybinds are trivial. I always thought KDE and Gnome were kind of garbage, but Hyprland gets out of the way and really lets me build the desktop environment I want.
NamlchakKhandro 1mo ago
Lmao keyboard shortcuts in Linux are AMAZING. In that I can make them what ever I want
- saagarjha 1mo ago
  You can usually do the same for macOS and from a single place to boot
shit_game 1mo ago
I can get that being annoying. I enjoy that keybinds are a configurable thing in the linux distributions and DEs that I've used, and I've found that most tend to have sane defaults. I assume that the situation is similar in macOS, but I don't know. The last time I've used any version of macOS was in 2008 during school, and I was far too young to really "get" computers, so I never experienced them in the way that I assume many people do now. The only other Apple products I've used since has been some combination of fourth gen and seventh gen ipod nanos (which were excellent, save for windows iTunes). Is there some secret sauce that Apple has that I'm just unexposed to that makes it wonderful?
- fooster 1mo ago
  I've used linux desktops for years, and in my experience it is quite difficult to fight against the default keybindings. It is much easier to go with the status quo, which is annoying especially if you regularly switch between a mac and linux machine.
alerighi 1mo ago
Really in Linux you can setup then do do whatever you want, you can setup them the same of Windows or MacOS if you want.