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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by symlinkk on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:36PM (#26677703)
GNOME has this feature
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by PurpleFoxy on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:53PM (#26678071)
It does and it mostly works but it doesn’t seem to be as fast as on macOS.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by kitsunesoba on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:59PM (#26678095)
Not sure how GNOME's preview feature is written, but macOS QuickLook plugins are written in C, C++, or Objective-C and the plugins included with the OS leverage OpenCL (or maybe Metal now) to accelerate rendering of previews, which is part of why it's so fast.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by spacemanmatt on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:21AM (#26678972)
<SecurityHat> > plugins written in C, C++, ...

no, thank you </SecurityHat>

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by tenken on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:55AM (#26678888)
Sure, until you mention Finder is browsing an SMB share folder ...

Once upon a time I used a Macbook, never again :D

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by symlinkk on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:28AM (#26678445)
Knew I would get this type of response. The goalposts keep shifting
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by crubier on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:13AM (#26679193)
No. It’s just that performance and UX is capital for this software, and generally terrible on Linux as compared to MacOS
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