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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by pkrumins on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:11AM (#22462078)
Which tools would you have to give up?
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by bdcravens on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:15AM (#22462094)
Some of the most obvious things I'd give up:

- ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports

- ability to copy and paste to/from my phone

- Transmit - I really haven't found many good s3 clients on Linux

- ScreenFlow

- Git Tower

Most of these have some sort of a work-around or close analog of course. (So I'd likely not be "giving anything up" as much as compromising or learning new techniques) However, I'm not sold on the benefits (other than ideological ones, the only thing that comes to mind is increased Docker performance) outweighing the costs. For someone with a different workflow and set of tools, a different conclusion may result.

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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by j88439h84 on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:03AM (#22462305)
> ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports

Doesn't xrandr do that?

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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by toyg on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:13AM (#22462595)
Problem with xrandr is figuring out how and where to run it automatically.
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by jaaames on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:16AM (#22462875)
Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by SuperPaintMan on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:18AM (#22464101)
Check out KDE Connect, it's a great piece of software for copy/paste, remote inputs and more. Will even wake your computers up when you walk in the door :)
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by nicoburns on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:37AM (#22464253)
Sublime Merge is a pretty good alternative to Git Tower.
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by cpach on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:33AM (#22462175)
Some applications I would miss: 1Password / Preview / Acorn / Evernote / Skitch / Pingplotter / djay
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by randomchars on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:54AM (#22463036)
While these may do some or all of the apps OP mentioned, the UX of most of them, even from the screenshot seems horrid.
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by cpach on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#22466629)
To each their own, but yes, personally I find the UX of Mac GUI applications to be generally a lot more appealing compared to the alternatives available on Linux.
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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by 29athrowaway on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:18PM (#22471265)
These projects were developed by volunteers and are distributed free of charge. No need to be a jerk. Plus if there's something you don't like you can always pull the code, modify what you need and submit a pull request.

I use Linux everyday and I prefer a slightly off UI once in a while than having to deal with the frustratingly sluggish performance of macOS.

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Re:Little known features of iTerm2 by sincerely on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:17AM (#22462106)
iTerm
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