The good news is that with AI, nothing stops Linux desktops from looking and feeling like (Former) osx..

The bad news is the hardware. The most important parts of a laptop, to me anyway, is that it runs silent and doesn't get hot to touch. Not just to avoid sweaty fingers but because I usually have my laptop in or on my lap. Nothing I can find could replace my m1 8gb macbook air in that regard.

I can find some pretty cool linux laptops from framework or tuxedo, but they have fans and they get hot.

	▲	gf000 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Asahi Linux is said to be pretty good on an M1.

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Ungh a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm quite frustrated with some aspects of macOS, particularly driving it from the keyboard, so I'm probably going to get a better experience out of it in the end.

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eddyg a day ago | parent [-]

Have you looked at Karabiner Elements⁽¹⁾? It’s extremely capable; see a config like this⁽²⁾ for inspiration.

⁽¹⁾ https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

⁽²⁾ https://github.com/pdelfino/karabiner-config

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Ungh a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes I'm using it because I don't use a standard Apple keyboard with my Mac.

The issue is mostly the user interface design is mouse first, not keyboard first. Windows was more than a little better on that front.

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eddyg a day ago | parent [-]

With Hammerspoon⁽³⁾ and the Accessibility API, I’ve found there’s not really much I can’t do.

For example, I use the Claude desktop app, but when I copy something from it, the Clipboard gets multiple content types, including RTF and Markdown, but I usually want the latter. So I wrote a quick snippet in Hammerspoon so that when Claude.app is the active app and the Clipboard changes, strip all the parts from the Clipboard except the “UTF8” part so I get just the Markdown (unless the Shift key is held down, which leaves it as-is). No more “formatted text” when I want to paste the Markdown.

My biggest problem now is that when I help somebody else on their Mac, I’m so used to “my controls” that I have to stop and think how to do things the normal way.

⁽³⁾ https://www.hammerspoon.org/

	▲	jazzypants a day ago \| parent [-]
		This would be much more interesting if it just exposed an API and didn't force Lua on you.

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lproven a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have it, regularly updated, from my efforts 10-15Y ago to try to get a Compose key working on OS X.

I failed.

I just haven't bothered to remove and clean up again.

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brainzap a day ago | parent | prev [-]

one would think, but a lot of things stopped Linux to just fucking work with Wifi on my machine