I’m on board that we need to become independent from big tech. As someone who is fond of the Mac user experience, from choosing hardware to how you navigate through apps, I need a guide to make the switch, so if you know of any great guides for Mac users, I’d greatly appreciate it!

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I’m not from mac land, so I don’t know how much Preview does. I’ll comment on how its done in PC land.

    • PDF’s have been handled by web browsers for a while now. Firefox will open and offer basic editing capabilities. Comes pre-installed on most distros.
    • Images are handled by the DE’s default image previewer which usually has rudimentary editing capabilities. Installed by default.

    Or you can get other apps that handle PDF’s and images.
    Switching to linux means switching to other applications. You aren’t getting Preview and you aren’t getting Safari. You get other software that does the same things.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Literally the only thing Preview can’t do is edit a PDF. It can do markup and annotation, but not edit the basic structure of the document.

      That one program can rotate individual pages, add and remove them, resize them, crop them. You can reorder pages just by dragging the thumbnail around in the side bar. It’s really, really useful.

      In my year or so of using Linux I’ve yet to find one program that can replicate everything Preview can do, so I have several that I draw upon depending on my need. It’s little things like that which keep me from fulling abandoning macOS.

      Apple are many things, but their history of making software that puts the user first is a huge chunk of why so many people swear by using Apple stuff.