I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.
I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.
For autohotkey-Like stuff on Wayland I’ve been very happy with https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
I wonder how hard it might be to build something like AHK for Linux.
I’m a big fan of AHK myself, and my small scripts would be a real gap when I finally manage to kick Windows out.
The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).
But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!
Basically all linux distros have a keyboard shortcut menu where you can add scripts and programs that do whatever you need. I have only used AHK once long ago, so i dont remember all that it does, but isnt that just all it is basically. The thing that makes AHK easy for people is all the publicly available scripts people made and published, not the application itself.
Among my primary uses is completely remapping the keyboard layout, from scan codes to international Colemak (like Dvorak but different).
That means my script captures every alpha keystroke and sends something else instead.
AHK is marvelous to run on otherwise locked-down corporate computers.
While I’m at it, my AHK also tracks typing stats, just for fun.
If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.
I use a variety of laptops with their built-in keyboards, and sometimes with a variety of plain usb keyboards.
It’s easy to run an AHK script on each machine, just for me. It’s not feasible to carry a special keyboard around.
QMK keyboards are not special. And you can buy one in any size, layout and portability.
As someone familiar with Colemak & Dvorak, I’m surprised you are not familiar with custom mechanical keyboards. Check out r/mk on leddot.
Honestly the UAC (the admin password/permission popup) and the way it handles software crashing (I believe by taking a screenshot of the current session, then moving to a safe session and asking what you wanted to do)was pretty nice. I don’t think most distros have matched the security of windows UAC prompts but then again it’s not as necessary on Linux either.
Yes omg I forgot about this but I do miss it frequently
I miss Clipjump. It’s built on top of AHK and it makes managing clipboard so much easier.
Klipper is nice but not as convenient.
Windows does plenty of things better. Like having a stable device driver API, so you can install third-party drivers really easily. And there’s only one Windows compared to many Linux distros, so there’s no need to compile software specifically for many separate Linux distros. Not as much of an issue with things like Flatpak. Windows also uses software library APIs for most operating system features, compared to the patchwork of file descriptors and file systems and sockets and all the other nonsense that makes up the interfaces used by Linux applications. The documentation is also in one place for Windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/). WIth Linux, you have to do research just to figure out what APIs are available. If Linux had as uniform of an API as Windows does, there would be even more software for it. The main reason there is more Linux software these days is because Linux is open source.
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Games, though it’s more of a game company issue. I like Apex Legends.
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Microsoft Office stuff. Every now and then I need to make a presentation, and LibreOffice Impress to Microsoft PowerPoint isn’t that good. I resort to Google Slides for now.
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Cursor trails. I tried making it myself until I stumbled on the concept of hardware cursor. I still want to do it, but man, putting an image where your pointer is at is harder than I thought. So much more if you’re on Wayland apparently.
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(Lack of) general ecosystem fragmentation. I still don’t understand why I can’t paste image that is clearly present in both xclip and wl-paste over Remmina. It does work if I open LibreOffice Draw, paste it there, then copy it back, and paste it in Remmina. Emacs on Xorg is blurry and requires xwayland-satellite but smooth, and Emacs GTK is sharp but stuttery.
Every now and then I need to make a presentation, and LibreOffice Impress to Microsoft PowerPoint isn’t that good. I resort to Google Slides for now.
It may not be your thing, but personally I’ve had a lot of success with RevealJS. You just write HTML (or even Markdown) and it automatically builds your slides for you such that they run on any browser. You can make it as complicated or as simple as you like (I’ve done some wild stuff with CSS) and everything can be versioned in git and published to anywhere that supports static files.
Here’s a reasonably professional-looking presentation I occasionally give about Kubernetes if you’re interested.
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Sometimes I miss BSODs because it forced a reboot and closed all of my open applications on a regular basis. With linux, i have a habit of getting lazy and never rebooting, meaning i always have a lot of open applications. lol
Set a cron job that randomly does “echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger”
May need enabling of the sysrq magic key.
lol good idea, thanks!
Nothing for me. All the games I care about run great, I’m much happier with my UX/UI using KDE Plasma, I’m very happy being able to use a bash shell in a terminal emulator of my choice, etc.
I miss windows 2000 professional
Very little. If I’m being honest with myself, I have a slight preference for how DOS/Windows handled mounting drives. I’ve never been a huge fan of the UNIX directory structure anyway. I’d like to see some sort of filesystem hierarchy reform for a clearer format.
But of course, using Linux is a relief in most ways. There’s no going back.
Really? With the drive letters? I’ve seen people who were running out of letters to use.
I assume you don’t mean the path names, since that’s more Unixy.
Nope.
Not anything concrete. Windows is kind of nostalgic for me as I only used it as a young child. But there’s not a specific “I wish X was on Linux”.
Blue stuff. But with a proper distro choice, the blue feels better now and I no longer miss the blue of Windows.
No. There used to be some nice things on Windows, but Windows 11 has thoroughly ruined them.
Yes, AHK.
It was amazing, and the alternatives aren’t the same :/
Not only do I miss nothing from Windows, but also the decisions MS has made each and every year since I dumped them has only increased my conviction that I made the right move in doing so. Not one time have I read a MS/Windows headline and felt I was somehow missing out on anything I would ever want to be a part of.
Didnt boot it in the last 12 months, maybe one day again for some games
The object selection tools in lightroom are pretty amazing, being able to choose select subject on the menu and it just selects the ducks or people or whatever pretty much perfectly each time to make your mask is pretty bonkers. It saves so much time over trying to select an object in dark table.
I really like dark table, I actually prefer the way it stacks modules vs. lightroom, and this is just for complex object selection, I can select the sky or background or whatever pretty simply in dark table.
Oh and dark table does not support DNG files. My workflow using PureRAW outputs compressed DNG files and Darktable will not support them currently. Sure I can go other routes for my export but the smaller size of a compressed DNG is very attractive when I can be working with about 100 * 40megapixel images.
PureRAW can sort of be duplicated by dark table, but again its not quite as good, doesnt quite have the same list of lens for correction/denoise capability. I shoot wildlife a lot and high ISO is a factor of life. Its not that dark table is bad at this its just PureRAW is very good at removing that noise and sharpening.
So lightroom and PureRAW forces me to have either windows or macos, and a shitty subscription for the former.
