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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

(On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn't Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn't it?; I don't use KDE because I just don't like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don't know if it is intuitive to use)

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[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is the command key useful on Linux DE?

[–] dizzy@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Cmd = super (Windows key on most keyboards)

Option = alt

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

Not as "command", but if you map it to something else it can be useful in lots of ways:

In combinations with other keys to launch programs.
In combinations with other keys or with the mouse to manipulate windows and workspaces.
In combination with other keys to create diacritics for non-English languages or useful Unicode symbols such as ½, ⁰C, ±, € and so on.

You can map the command keys separately too because they emit different keycodes. For example I use my right-hand super key to launch programs but my left-hand key (with Ctrl or alone) to switch to the next/prev workspace.