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I actually wouldn’t want a Linux machine to act like a Mac. I like Macs because of the way they are, but I use Windows at work and I use it differently. I’ve tried to make them act like each other and it just doesn’t work. I have 30 years of experience with Windows that isn’t going away (I still reach for CTRL+ALT+DEL which on a Mac is CTRL+⌘+DEL (which doesn’t do shit (just tried it, it doesn’t do shit) but I also have 2.5 years of experience with Macs (and I do try ⌘+Q to quit apps, which is ALT+Q and I don’t think it does anything (unless a menu’s alt shortcut is Q, which would be very rare).
Linux… I’ve used it off and on (mostly off) since the 90s. I really liked Red Hat, in the Win98/2000 days. I know it became Fedora Core and is now just Fedora. Always liked Ubuntu. But — and I’m preaching to the choir here — I understand what Linux is, being a kernel and not an OS. A distro is just a set of tools. So yeah, I like GNOME, I like KDE enough, I’m sure there are other options and I honestly haven’t used either of those in a couple years.
Quick question: back in the day, you could switch desktop environments. There was KDE, GNOME, and another one (like X Windows or something). That was cool. I’m sure there’s a way to do that now. That’s what I’d have. One environment for some stuff, another for other stuff. I’m sure it’s possible. I just don’t really hear about it being done.
I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.
You mostly want window snapping on what? Can’t help ya on Linux. macOS added it, kinda badly, last year or the year before. Before that, I was using a free app called Rectangle to do it. There was another one that was paid that apparently did more, but Rectangle was good enough for me. I stopped using it when Sequoia or Tahoe added it. My needs aren’t that great.
um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.
I actually wouldn’t want a Linux machine to act like a Mac. I like Macs because of the way they are, but I use Windows at work and I use it differently. I’ve tried to make them act like each other and it just doesn’t work. I have 30 years of experience with Windows that isn’t going away (I still reach for CTRL+ALT+DEL which on a Mac is CTRL+⌘+DEL (which doesn’t do shit (just tried it, it doesn’t do shit) but I also have 2.5 years of experience with Macs (and I do try ⌘+Q to quit apps, which is ALT+Q and I don’t think it does anything (unless a menu’s alt shortcut is Q, which would be very rare).
Linux… I’ve used it off and on (mostly off) since the 90s. I really liked Red Hat, in the Win98/2000 days. I know it became Fedora Core and is now just Fedora. Always liked Ubuntu. But — and I’m preaching to the choir here — I understand what Linux is, being a kernel and not an OS. A distro is just a set of tools. So yeah, I like GNOME, I like KDE enough, I’m sure there are other options and I honestly haven’t used either of those in a couple years.
Quick question: back in the day, you could switch desktop environments. There was KDE, GNOME, and another one (like X Windows or something). That was cool. I’m sure there’s a way to do that now. That’s what I’d have. One environment for some stuff, another for other stuff. I’m sure it’s possible. I just don’t really hear about it being done.
I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.
You mostly want window snapping on what? Can’t help ya on Linux. macOS added it, kinda badly, last year or the year before. Before that, I was using a free app called Rectangle to do it. There was another one that was paid that apparently did more, but Rectangle was good enough for me. I stopped using it when Sequoia or Tahoe added it. My needs aren’t that great.
um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.