Are they the platforms of choice for everything else? I tried to find me a PDF editor for linux, again, happy to hand over money, I got a trial for a program that was god awful and did not count as it could not properly deciper the PDF and allow me to edit text with every word being split into multiple text boxes.... On windows i have many options. All other programs claiming to be PDF editors were all lying as all they banged on about was adding notes to a PDF not editing the original text.When you say edit, do you mean the forms filling functions you get with the Adobe tools, or actually altering the document/ The Adobe tools work for form filling, but most other Linux tools don't seem to have taken forms as seriously as they might have. For general document editing, what's wrong with LibreOffice, or Lyx, or a number of other document tools?
You can't "just" open any PDF in libre office and start editing.....True. They come up with the tag "This document is open in read-only mode". You click "edit document" and off you go.
As the forum rules do not permit me to call you an idiot I will demonstrate!
Attached are two screen shots, one of a PDF readers view of the document and one of libre office draw, yea, because despite opening it in writer it decided to switch to draw. As you can hopefully see even before I give a toss about being able to edit, libre office could not even interpret the document properly. To the point that "rectifier" has become "rectier". i will happily pay someone money for a program specifically written to work on the PDF format, for the sub £200 that is better use of my time/money than titting about with a tool that was not really meant to do this job or at least they are still working on it! Lets not start talking about the inability in libre draw to do bookmarks and I don't have the time trying to find out if all of my lovely bookmarks will disappear the moment I hit save in libre office draw....
You can buy a modern NeXTstep machine from Argos these days
You can buy a modern NeXTstep machine from Argos these daysYou will have to explain that one.
You can buy a modern NeXTstep machine from Argos these daysYou will have to explain that one.
You can buy a modern NeXTstep machine from Argos these daysYou will have to explain that one.
Modern macOS (and iOS etc) is basically a direct descendent of NeXTstep on top of a hybrid Mach / BSD kernel. There are bits of NeXT hanging out still including the font selection dialog, services, the dock and the underlying architecture. And you can buy a mac on Argos.
There's also Objective-C under it which originated on NeXTstep. They're replacing that now slowly with a more modern language (Swift) however but the whole signalling, dispatch and object model in the UI is the same.
You can buy a modern NeXTstep machine from Argos these daysYou will have to explain that one.
Modern macOS (and iOS etc) is basically a direct descendent of NeXTstep on top of a hybrid Mach / BSD kernel. There are bits of NeXT hanging out still including the font selection dialog, services, the dock and the underlying architecture. And you can buy a mac on Argos.
There's also Objective-C under it which originated on NeXTstep. They're replacing that now slowly with a more modern language (Swift) however but the whole signalling, dispatch and object model in the UI is the same.I assume you never used a NeXTStep machine. Apple adopted the NeXTStep code base, but changed the feel of the UI to mimic the old MAC-OS, to keep the existing Apple user base happy. That UI has various benefits over the clunkiness of Windows. However, at least for the kind of work I do, the feel of NeXTStep let me work faster than anything I have access to today. Do you notice things like the scroll bars being on the left, instead of the right? That one thing made many of my activities much faster with NeXTStep.
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Scroll bars are 100% dead for me. If you look at the screenshot of my Mac above you will see there are none. Sure if you have a mouse plugged in you'll get them but I will always reach for the touch pad first. The touchpad gestures are considerably better than any other solution on any other platform and better than a mouse by far. I am 10x more productive on macOS as a whole due to this, the virtual desktop system and general integration. I can triple-swipe on the touchpad (switch desktops) between my mac desktop apps, a terminal emulator and a Windows RDP session.
.I've got to be honest, putting them on the left with a mouse was a bad idea. There is more room to extend motion to the right of the keyboard than to the left. I regularly found myself banging the mouse on the keyboard using the Start menu on windows for example.
My desk setup has a separate touchpad and keyboard.
Modern macOS (and iOS etc) is basically a direct descendent of NeXTstep on top of a hybrid Mach / BSD kernel. There are bits of NeXT hanging out still including the font selection dialog, services, the dock and the underlying architecture. And you can buy a mac on Argos.
Here's the evolution...
NeXTstep:
NeXTstep's GUI doesn't look much different from AmigaOS's Workbench.
NeXTstep's GUI doesn't look much different from AmigaOS's Workbench.
Not sure what gen MacBook you have but there was a really crappy period of MacBooks recently.
Touch Bar is apparently going on next generation MacBooks. It’s not popular. And new keyboards are much nicer (since end of 2020). Mine is an Air which has a proper keyboard.
Not sure what gen MacBook you have but there was a really crappy period of MacBooks recently.
Touch Bar is apparently going on next generation MacBooks. It’s not popular. And new keyboards are much nicer (since end of 2020). Mine is an Air which has a proper keyboard.
Fuck me amigaos is so ugly. Looks like someone with shit in their eyes used a mac for 5 minutes then proceeded to drink half a bottle of vodka and recall the experience.
That big touchpad (which is totally great and every other manufacturer should just do exactly what Apple does with theirs) really makes it so easy to use the standard menus and toolbars.
That big touchpad (which is totally great and every other manufacturer should just do exactly what Apple does with theirs) really makes it so easy to use the standard menus and toolbars.
Uhg! Nooo! A lot of them already are and I hate it! If you like an absurdly huge touchpad that's fine, but please let's have options so we can choose! I want a much smaller touchpad, with real physical buttons under it. I typically rest my wrist while I'm using the touchpad and don't want to have to lift and move my entire arm just to use it. I've got the sensitivity cranked up all the way on all of my laptops and still none of them are sensitive enough, it requires way too much movement to get the cursor from one side of the screen to the other, I hate it. The touchpad on my old Toshiba from 2004 or whatever was fantastic, I still miss it. It was small and unobtrusive and it had real buttons with a nice tactile feel. I'd love it if I could get that on a modern laptop. I'm primarily a keyboard user though and I want it optimized for the keyboard, the touchpad just gets in the way most of the time.