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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by bionicbits on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:07AM (#21331575)
The things I would miss most leaving Mac...

1. Uploading my Signature in Preview and being able to sign and edit PDF documents on any of my Apple Devices.

2. Screen rendering quality, on Mac everything seems to be sharper and more crisp than Linux on the same device.

3. Keynote. I so want a cross-platform replacement that is nearly as good.

4. iMessage integration with phone. I can send sms/iMessages from my Mac.

But I am planning to switch anyways. As all these companies move to a "service model", I feel like I am only leasing my software, and tools that make the hardware work. Furthermore, it feels impossible to get under the hood anymore.

Would love any advice or recommendations for the above.

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by jcelerier on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:21AM (#21331651)
For 2. That's funny, for me mac screens look like a blurry mess while Linux are the sharpest thing around with infinality patches.

For 4. There is kde connect (you don't need to run kde to have it). Works only with android though afaik.

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by MarcScott on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:49AM (#21331807)
Also messages.google.com with Android. But with the obvious caveat that you're giving extra data to Google.
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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by hiram112 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:40AM (#21331751)
Are infinality patches still being updated?

Those were about the only reason I could tolerate a standard Centos or RHEL desktop, but I'd heard the maintainer 'disappeared' and nobody has picked them back up.

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by jcelerier on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:08AM (#21331932)
For some time there weren't but now someone is on it again :

``` aur/cairo-infinality 1.17.2+11+gdfe3aa6d8-1 (38) (0,00)

aur/cairo-infinality-remix 1.17.2+17+g52a7c79fd-1 (6) (1,33)

aur/fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (310) (0,00)

aur/fontconfig-infinality-remix 2.13.1-2 (6) (1,33)

aur/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 [installed] (21) (0,00)

aur/fonts-meta-base 1-2 [installed] (90) (0,09)

aur/fonts-meta-extended-lt 3-1 [installed] (91) (0,09)

aur/freetype2-demos-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01)

aur/freetype2-demos-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44)

aur/freetype2-docs-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01)

aur/freetype2-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01)

aur/freetype2-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44)

aur/freetype2-ultimate5 2.10.1-1 [installed] (12) (1,00)

aur/gimp-font-rendering-fix 1-1 (5) (0,00)

aur/grip-git 20120917-1 (37) (0,00)

aur/jdk7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00)

aur/jdk8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00)

aur/jre7-openjdk-headless-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00)

aur/jre7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00)

aur/jre8-openjdk-headless-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00)

aur/jre8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00)

aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (0) (0,00)

aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 (3) (0,00)

aur/lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate 2.9.1-2 (Out of Date) (9) (0,04)

aur/ttf-dejavu-ib 2.37-2 (0) (0,00) ```

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by shantly on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:46AM (#21334002)
Preview is amazing. I’ve never used another PDF reader that didn’t make me sad every time I had to use it. It’s nice to like PDFs. Signing and moving pages between or to new PDFs are my most-used features.

And it’s the best basic image viewer / light editor I’ve used.

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by kam on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:28AM (#21331687)
For 1, Xournal can open PDFs, insert text, images, and annotations, and export back to PDF.
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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by SanchoPanda on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:32AM (#21331707)
Libreoffice draw is amazing at PDF documents as well. It's something that feels like it should be advertised more, though I can imagine why they don't.
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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by SanchoPanda on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:36AM (#21331734)
3 - libreoffice impress.

For Numbers I like gnumeric over libreoffice Calc, but nothing really holds a candle to excel unfortunately.

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by C1sc0cat on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:02AM (#21333315)
Calc actually works much better for spread sheets with odd character sets than excel does.
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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by bionicbits on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:16AM (#21331981)
Will check this out. Been decades since I last tried libre office. fingers crossed
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