Homebrew

Posted May 23, 2013 9:50 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released by geofft
Parent article: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

I'm using one right now, and honestly the only thing that really bothers me relative to Debian is the lack of a good packaging repository.

I have to use a Mac laptop for work sometimes, and there is an excellent packaging repository: Homebrew. In fact it is so good that I don't miss APT at all, unless with most other Linux distros. Also it has Bash which makes it feel almost like home.

But there are multiple annoyances with it: lousy keyboard layout, inconsistent keyboard shortcuts for most applications (next tab anyone?), slooow with a spinning rust disk, and very hungry for resources. I miss my XFCE/GNU/Linux desktop machine all the time. Otherwise it is very nice hardware, I guess it could use an SSD inside and some Debian in it.

Homebrew

Posted May 23, 2013 12:41 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, keyboard shortcuts suck - so I have remapped my keyboard heavily.

However, two just keyboard shortcuts atone for all of the others - consistently working copy and paste.

Copy + Paste

Posted May 23, 2013 16:03 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

The terminal is very annoying in this respect. Lately I have taken to use Windows shortcuts on my trusty XFCE: Shift + Insert to paste since Control + V does not work in a terminal window. But it behaves very strangely. Sometimes it pastes the regular clipboard (the one for Copy and Paste), at other times it pastes the primary selection (the one for middle-click).

When using the mouse though, I find that the primary selection (select and middle-click) is very handy and sorely miss it on Mac OS X: it works, but only from and to a terminal window.

Homebrew

Posted May 29, 2013 2:46 UTC (Wed) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link] (1 responses)

+1 for Homebrew. But no matter how great a 3rd party package repo tool is you'll never get around the fact that it's a 3rd party tool.

I stuck an SSD in my Macbook. the difference is like night and day; do it, you won't regret it. Just make sure that (in pre-Lion I think) TRIM is enabled using something like this for instance.

Homebrew

Posted May 29, 2013 13:38 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

I am waiting for the guarantee to expire before upgrading to an excellent Crucial M4 128 GB like the one on my desktop. Thanks for the note about TRIM.