noughtnaut @ noughtnaut @lemmy.world

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So using find was obviously a simplistic example. I know ctrl F is near-universal for a regular find operation, but let's imagine some other specialised feature of, say, a CAD application. "Find vertex in selected model" perhaps?

Oddly enough, I just discarded MacOS for a similar reason: yes, ctrl f is for "find" but, unlike on any other platform where ctrl shift f is "find in all files in project", on MacOS that is cmd shift f. WTAF, there goes my muscle memory out the window. In fact, the "when is it ctrl and when is it cmd" threw me for such a loop that it impacted my performance. Now that I'm back on Linux, the tool disappears and I can just do my job. Ahh.

Yeah I'm not talking about launching applications, I'm talking about how to divine that ctrl alt shift § invokes "find in page" or whatever without digging through the gorram tabs of the ribbon.

It's so very power-user unfriendly, it would have made SO much more sense if Windows 3 or 95 had started or with those idiotic ribbons for crayon-eating users and THEN evolved into sleek, compact toolbar with hover tooltips hunting at keyboard shortcuts. But no, it was the other way around and I'm like unfathoming Asian head grab meme

Clarke's 3001 had a whole post script about all the sci-fi elements that had actually been realised since he wrote 2001 (back in 1968). It's rather an interesting list, but unfortunately my copy of the book is buried deep in a moving box atm. so I'm not going to quote it.

Being intuitive - was true of Windows 95 - XP, but was completely broken in the last couple of releases. Whatever version Windows is on now, it's so much a guessing game what is and is not a button, or how to invoke a given tool within an application. They even took away the "menu > underlines" ffs.

(Say this out loud)

There's an app for that.

640 x 480

2020: the less said the better.

2021: twenty twenty won.

2022: twenty twenty, too...

2023: stuck at 390% ???

It's a DUST short, but check out Iteration One on YouTube.

Definitely not a kid, there's too much skill and perseverance for that. But yeah, a mentally off person back in the day, or a very, very good con man later on, that we can agree on.

Vöøyniytschz Manuscript. For sure the guaranteed correct spelling.

Great, thanks!

How does Thunderbird work for you wrt to sharing calendars with others (eg. family) and syncing with eg. an Outlook calendar?

Seconded.

Without a single word on replacements for email, calendar, phone, etc... this post is pretty much useless to everyone else than the OP.

I heartily commend you for asking, and was happy to see you get a good response.

"What is the most common distro" is not straightforward to shat because of the breadth of users. Arch is one of the more... esoteric... distributions, it will allow you very, very fine grained control of everything - but it also requires you to be able to make those choices. At the other end of the scale we might find Ubuntu and Mint which are far less customizable* but "just work" out of the box and, as such, are obvious choices for users new to Linux or unwilling to invest in "tinkering".

Really, the freedom of choice is overwhelming to many newcomers, and at the same time the strength of the whole system.

*Any distro is very customizable. You can make nearly the same changes to Ubuntu and Arch, it's just that Ubuntu is not designed to make that easy for you.

For added fun, macs use CR.

This used to be true, for sure, but I thought this changed with OS X (which is essentially PrettyBSD) ?

I just love your very apt (although likely accidental) usage of distro hoping.

Oh, the D! Now I get it.

Thank you so much!

Awesome. That's the code table book I have and love. Those old Volvo's and Saab's parked by COOP stores just take me back to my preschool years. Ah, when summers were long and warm and I didn't at all mind having sand in my pockets and shoes...