matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
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matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
It does seem nicer to ask after, but then again, 99% of us simply close the tab after the download starts. We just do it automatically.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
Check my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312)
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
Well Geary (and the elementary fork Pantheon Mail) are quite good for basic use. There are still a few bugs and their codebases are quite hell to work with (see [1] for my review of them). This document motivates my little side project, but, lately, it hasn't seen much direct attention as I've been working on some stuff upstream, in elementary and Evolution, for this project.
[1] https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#re...
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
Not much. Both System76 and Dell's Sputnik spend quite a bit of time getting good support for their laptops under Linux.
I personally think XPS has a much better design for a laptop.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
It's been linked many times around here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
I'm still seeing powersaving issues even on Haswell. I believe basic support for Skylake only shipped in Ubuntu LTS only recently, too.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
Here's a list to all the projects maintained by elementary [1]. Quite a few. What elementary gets from Ubuntu is the kernel, userland tools and package repositories but from the desktop environment up, it's different stuff (albeit based on the same toolkit, GTK, and many shared libraries with GNOME).
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
I don't know mac conventions as I generally don't use keys on my mac. But elementary certainly has a configurable keyboard shortcuts panel.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
The version of Epiphany which has to ship with Ubuntu (because Ubuntu is only shipping GTK 3.18) is pretty outdated [1]. I have been trying to move away from Chrome to Epiphany slowly but was encountering quite a few issues which I reported to GNOME and they were like "Oh yeah, we fixed this a long time ago, get the latest version".
I got the latest version via flatpak and I've completely replaced Chrome. There are still a few issues to be ironed out in flatpak (like notifications and downloads support), but it's getting there!
[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/03/30/positive-progr...
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
Unfortunately, Linux lacks in the creative market. There's no way this can change soon without support from big players, like, for example, Adobe.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
elementary OS has evolved a lot from just a simple skin on top of Ubuntu. You can see here [1] all the projects which are maintained by the team.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
The argument is that the potential user needs to be aware of his action when he's entering in "0". Otherwise, it's just automatic - you don't even think about it.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
I've had similar issues with Haswell and the Intel 7260 wifi card when it came out. It was fixed, but it took over a year after it was relesed :(
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
I presume you know about Matthew Garett already? http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
It's certainly on the to-do list, but some features related to swipe were implemented in the GTK version after than the one Ubuntu 16.04 LTS currently ships, so it'll take a bit more time.
I personally want that feature too.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
Mail used to use webkitgtk (the old api), but has been since ported to use webkit2gtk (the new, multi-process api), you might wanna give it a second look.
EDIT: I stand corrected. This has not happened yet. I confused this with some other changes.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Elementary OS
The AppCenter is the hottest development area, so there are new features and fixes landing every day. But in the not very distant future you're going to see the result of a lot of work: https://houston.elementary.io/
There is a problem with Epiphany, namely that the webkit version that ships with Ubuntu is long outdated, hopefully that's going to get fixed: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-secu...
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business
True. I guess this paranoia is coming from all the manufacturers just willing to rip everything off.
matzipan | 9 years ago | on: Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business
Why does the foundry need a license too? I just give it a mask! That sounds like IP hell.
The GNOME project itself [1] has a lot of projects which compete with what you linked. Sure, Apple has a few billion dollars to dump into development every year, so you have to adjust for scale.
[1] https://developer.gnome.org/references