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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:01PM (#20803728)
It’s weird to me to use Super to close a tab rather than for the desktop environment. Super is very consistent on my DE of choice: it’s not for application specific keyboard shortcuts, but for keyboard shortcuts of the window manager. That way there are never any collisions and things are easy to remember.
Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:57PM (#20803692)
Check out the Arch Wiki. Mind you: I am not saying use Arch necessarily. But the wiki is fantastic documentation for Linux.

Sure, it’s one thing to compare knowledge that you already have. But does macOS even have a counterpart to the Arch Wiki for those starting out?

Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:12PM (#20793732)
Yeah I understand having same defaults over customization. I just don’t find all the mac defaults to be all that sane. The maximization putting windows in their own workspace at the very end of the workspace list is one of the stranger decisions of the mac UI
Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:08PM (#20793706)
My preference for Linux over macOS is actually the UI. I like having a real package manager and such, but it’s not like I care much about kernel subsystem differences. I have used macs a lot and I just find their UI cumbersome.

And this is from someone who loves the iPhone.

Re:Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch on Friday July 19, 2019 @06:29PM (#20482967)
Not really, because the computer meaning of the word branched off the literal meaning.
And then again still, the “best programmer” sacrificed code quality in pursuit of quickly producing features. The article doesn’t define code quality measures but I’d still take the lines of code metric as either not a measure of value in itself or with a massive grain of salt.