I used macs exclusively from around 2007 to now. Before, I had a decade of Linux on my desktop. In all that time, I continued to use Linux, just not as UI machine. I tried Linux a few times in there. But now I could not stand the idea to buy a new Mac. Because of that, I bought a #beelink SER9 that I am now trying as a daily after work driver. Gnome has gone a long way. It's really nice. And they fixed the font rendering.
This will hopefully be a thread of all things I discover along the way.
#keyd (https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd) was basically one of the biggest missing pieces for me last time I tried Linux. With it, I can map all my keys and replace application shortcuts with better defaults. Like this:
[google-chrome]
meta.[ = C-S-tab
meta.] = macro(C-tab)
[firefox-esr]
meta.] = macro(C-tab)
meta.[ = C-S-tab
That shortcut is way nicer for my hands, and I unified it everywhere. Luckily, #Ghostty has a config for this.
Sadly, somehow Debian has problems with the Wifi-Module on the #beelink. On the Pre-Installed Windows 11 it was able to get the maximum Wi-Fi speed that my router allows. With Debian I had to disable Bluetooth to get it faster than 0,5mb/s and even then it maxed at 20 mb/s.
Not sure what is going on there, but I now ordered a "known good" Wi-Fi stick. Don't want to go further into this mess than needed...it's still Linux. BUT the printer and scanner just worked 😅.
On Mac OS, I had a link to a script on the desktop. Every time I got an invoice email, I grabbed the PDF and dropped it onto the link. Then the script would get the pdf path as a parameter and did some housekeeping with it. Basically some light cleanup of the filename and moving it into the correct folder so that another script could send the stuff to my tax person once every month.
How can I get a drop target visible on my Gnome Desktop somewhere on the screen that does this?
Over a week on #Gnome and #Debian now. And I must say that I love it. Never thought that I would say this. Has it still its quirks? Yes. But way less than I thought. And Gnome + their UI framework makes the apps look so georgous now. Really impressed by the quality of all those apps. OpenSource does not need to look ugly. Seems like #libadwaita makes it really straightforward to build beautiful apps.
A big thank you to all amazing open-source contributors to that ecosystem.
@bitboxer it's been AWHILE since I've dealt with it so I can't find the issue on git but it's a known issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=300822
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2082761#p2082761
@bitboxer well like I said it's been a known issue for a long time now and it still isn't fixed. It's been brought up to the devs several times already and they're reluctant to fix anything that isn't within their GNOME ecosystem. The cursor will work just fine within a GNOME DE with GNOME apps, etc but outside of either of those things? good luck.
the problem is it's a default mouse cursor for many distros and DE's so it's good advice that if you're using a DE OTHER than GNOME to disable the Adwaita cursors to save yourself a headache.
But if you're in GNOME then it's a non issue for you.
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