Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by jlarocco on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:36PM
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> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent
That's not a Linux problem, it's a window manager problem. Setting keyboard shortcuts is a piece of cake in StumpWM.
> * searching for help usually yields results that are half a decade or more old, and it's very difficult to figure out if it's current advice or not
That's a search engine problem, and it affects a lot of stuff besides Linux.
> * brew isn't the best, but on linux I need to use both brew _and_ apt because you can't reliably get anything approaching up-to-date software with apt
That depends on your distro. Lots of systems use Apt, and they all have their own package servers. I've used Debian testing for years, and it's always been reasonably up to date.
That's not a Linux problem, it's a window manager problem. Setting keyboard shortcuts is a piece of cake in StumpWM.
> * searching for help usually yields results that are half a decade or more old, and it's very difficult to figure out if it's current advice or not
That's a search engine problem, and it affects a lot of stuff besides Linux.
> * brew isn't the best, but on linux I need to use both brew _and_ apt because you can't reliably get anything approaching up-to-date software with apt
That depends on your distro. Lots of systems use Apt, and they all have their own package servers. I've used Debian testing for years, and it's always been reasonably up to date.