AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to streamline your work?

Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by factorialboy on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:47AM (#25312404)

Moving from MacOS to a Linux distro with the XFCE desktop env was the biggest productivity hack I performed in 2020. Took a week or so to get things "perfectly configured" but man oh man was it a better experience compared to MacOS.

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by bestinterest on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:44AM (#25314510)

Really wish I could do the switch to any Linux distro but the font rendering is just terrible on my eyes. I find it can frustrate some people like me more than others.

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by monroewalker on Sunday December 06, 2020 @04:09PM (#25326653)

I was having similar issues on Ubuntu with either Unity or Gnome (can't remember which). The high DPI resolution of the laptop screen made everything look really small and everything I tried to do to scale up the size of things just didn't work well. Things didn't scale evenly, sometimes the text would be bigger but not the ui controls. On MacOS I've found the display scaling to just work as expected

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by gtirloni on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:19AM (#25315636)

Which distribution have you used? Fedora 33 seems pretty decent in my 4k monitor.

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by bestinterest on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:40PM (#25326417)

I've used Manjaro and Pop_OS, no luck however. Something just hurts my eyes and I can't put my finger on it. The browsers are especially awful which is what I spend 90% of my time in. See https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/ post which I found to confirm my issues.

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by monroewalker on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:13PM (#25320403)

What about XFCE do you like and make it a much better experience for you than Macos?

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by factorialboy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:52AM (#25322136)

Speed. Customizability.

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Re:AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to ... by monroewalker on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:34PM (#25325453)

Can you elaborate on that? What's faster? What are you customizing that you couldn't before?

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