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My (k)Ubuntu (OSX look alike) desktop setup

Antonio on February 12, 2019

This article was originally posted in my website. If you like it, feel free to pay me a visit and check other articles in my blog. During 2018 I'v...
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Yann Barraud

Hey, neat ! Did you get touchpad to follow the same gestures and multitouch as your Mac ? I'm missing this ?

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Antonio

Thanks!
I have the basic ones, like scrolling (vertical and horizontally) with two fingers, right click with two fingers too and switch between desktops scrolling.

I was lucky I found a repo with a lot of tweaks for my laptop (Razer Blade Stealth) and one of them is to get gestures using the Libinput package. I'm sure it can be installed in most of the laptops. You can find it here: github.com/rolandguelle/razer-blad...

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Antonio

I've found a better trackpad drivers/config and now I have basically the same gestures as in Mac. Leaving it here in case it helps :)
devhub.io/repos/bulletmark-libinpu...

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Eddie Abbondanzio

I've been on the fence about ditching windows for a couple of months for now. With all the bloat introduced by Windows 10, and the lack of privacy I was just getting tired of it.

This post finally motivated me to make the switch and as of today I'm happily running Kubuntu. Still have a lot to learn but thanks for convincing me to make the jump.

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Oziel Perez

Haha, I'm on the same boat but coming from MacOS. Honestly, I would have stayed over there but with Apple never giving out tools for developers to build iOS apps from other machines and the constant push to close everything in their ecosystem down to the new M1 Chips and non-replacable phone and laptop parts, I think it's time for me to liberate myself from them. Plus Amazon just released MacOS ec2 instances so I can just use that to compile iOS apps when I need it

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Ben Sinclair

I've done the opposite. I've done my best to make my work Mac look like a proper computer. I mean, you can't get rid of the dock completely, but I've pushed it off the right-hand side (the least likely side for me to hit by accident) and made it teeny-tiny. I've disabled everything I can that makes a Mac quite so... maccy.

I like having reasonably similar environments, but have made the concession of making my home computers mimic a bunch of Mac keyboard shortcuts that Apple don't let you configure.

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Devang Hingu

Bro i latte take more memory and CPU usage. Sometimes it will not response quickly when it hidden. first i had installed latte and now i move ahead on plank and it work well compare to latte. And i really love it. very lightweight and beautiful.

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Antonio

I never had any problems with Latte to be honest. Cant talk about the latest versions as I'm currently running Windows 10 with WSL instead of Ubuntu but if I move back to Linux, I'll give plank a try. Thanks for the recommendation :)

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Devang Hingu

yeah.. You must have to try it very lightweight and works fast compare to latte.

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Nans Dumortier • Edited

Great setup ! I really like how configurable some distros are !
Do you still have issues when switching OS ? In my case, I really struggle with keyboard changes ! (Mac keyboards are different from the other ones, and keyboard shortcuts change as well)

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Antonio

I really don't have problems with the different keyboard layouts, I guess I'm already use to both :)

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Juan Treminio

KDE has an insane number of configurable keyboard shortcuts. You can easily match MacOS.

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Nans Dumortier

I definitely have to try it out !

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Beeblebrox

what about tools that you use on MacOS... i.e. desktop widgets like übersicht, iTerm/brew, zsh and similar... how you go around that when switching from Mac to Linux machine?

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Keith Bremner • Edited

Hyper (hyper.is/) is a decent cross-platform replacement for iterm - you can have the same setup on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Zsh and oh-my-zsh work on Linux.

And where you would use brew on Mac, you use apt on (K)Ubuntu. It’s similar but also lets you update core OS packages.

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🇨🇵️ Nathan Graule

Linuxbrew is the spiritual brother to Homebrew on macOS. System package managers work differently so it's not really adequate to put them on the same footing.

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Kim Pastro

Very nice!!!! Thanks for sharing!

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Gustavo Garsaky

Really nice! Thanks!

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Wallace Silva

A great alternative to emulate Spotlight is Albert (github.com/albertlauncher/albert). To me, this is the better alternative to Spotlight on Linux.

thx

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Robert Relativo

Awesome!

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Antonio

Glad you liked it :)

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Radu Breahna

Is there any way to get the wallpaper that you are using?

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Mark Frost

looks good