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Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: Zucca on January 04, 2020, 08:15:23 pm ---1) What do you use for Video editing? I use Adobe Premiere
2) What do you use for Photo editing? I use Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop
3) I am addicted to Total Commander but I think I will find something to replace it, any direct experience?
4) I love Autohotkey, do you Linux guys used something like this? I can find surely something to replace it, but I dream somebody out there having a diret experience.
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* I don't edit videos.
* Gimp, and various command line utilities when dealing with lots of images
* Never used Total Commander, but each Desktop Environment has their own file manager, so try Gnome, Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE, LXDE at least to see which one you like most.
* All DEs support keyboard shortcuts (usually found in your keyboard configuration tool), allowing you to run any script or program when a specific key combination is pressed.  Accessing already open windows or the active window in the GUI is not as easy, but there are pretty standard utilities like wmctrl and xclip.  Manipulating displays is quite easy with xrandr.In general, I would say that if you look for tool similar to Z I used in Windows, you'll be severely disappointed.
However, if you are interested and have the time to look for new, easier and more efficient ways to achieve Y or perform X, then you'll find lots of tools to try and adapt to your will.
Just remember that facts or axioms that applied in Windows, do not necessarily apply in Linux, so you might have to learn to think outside the box first.

The main difference between Windows and Mac OS, and Linux, being that in Linux, there is no "best or recommended way" to do things; it is completely up to you to find and setup the workflow that works for you, the OS/DE does not have one to impose on you.
Zucca:
Thanks Animal for your interesting reply.

I used Autohotkey for example to autotype my email address domain

"@mydomain.com"

I just have to type "@m" and autohotkey complete the address for me, regardless where I am typing my email address.
Furthermore I use Autohotkey to do a lot more boring stuff I do not want to mention here (connected to an HASU USB converter to control more keyboards), what to you think about this one:

https://github.com/autokey/autokey

Anyway I understand fully your suggestion so maybe there is something in Linux that sits beetween keyboard and mouse and the linux core to generate keyboard and mouse automated scripts. I will research.

Anybody can tell me more about the driver support in Linux? I hope the HW market in 201920 understood a hardware must run not only in windows and iOS.

PS: Since yesterday my win pc is throwing at me BSOD, if it is not HW related I will switch soon.
james_s:
Hardware support is a mixed bag, a lot of consumer-centric hardware has less Linux support, most professional/SOHO gear is well supported. When I installed Ubuntu on a couple of my Lenovo laptops it found all the drivers and everything just worked. As with anything, YMMV, but if you have Linux in mind when shopping for hardware it is no problem to get supported equipment.
borjam:

--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on December 28, 2019, 07:58:38 am ---Apple will eventually discard macOS and replace it with iOS anyway. Then they will release a touch-screen laptop and claim it's a world-first innovation.

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That would be really stupid. Developers need a viable development platform, so that means it won't happen. Unlike Microsoft and its nail and hammer philosophy.
borjam:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 28, 2019, 08:02:33 am ---MacOS and iOS are already close relatives to Linux and Android is Linux. Outside of Microsoft, most of the tech industry and the vast majority of the internet back end runs on Linux. The only place that Linux is not absolutely dominant is the consumer and corporate desktop.

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While I understand the fascination with Linux experienced by Windows refugees, it's worth pointing out that the world begun before the 90's when Linus Thorvalds wrote Linux. Linux is a descendant of Unix, an operating system created in the early 70's originating a really huge family tree of descendants. Among them, if only by inspiration, you can certainly find Linux.

Surprisingly enough, Macos X is a proper Unix system. And you can find a lot of former users of Unix systems such as Sun workstations using Macos X now.

The majority of the Internet back end does not run on Linux if you mean moving packets. The dominant router manufacturers are Cisco (using their own operating system) and Juniper. Juniper uses JunOS, which is based on FreeBSD. FreeBSD is, by the way, a major contributor to Macos X :)

And what is FreeBSD? A descendant of the good old BSD Unix system. A system Linux zealots love to despise because their self esteem needs it :P
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