- Lubuntu macbook battery life install#
- Lubuntu macbook battery life full#
- Lubuntu macbook battery life windows#
Lubuntu macbook battery life install#
OK, so I’ve had a day now to get used to the little differences on macOS and install software to solve any immediate problems, so I expected things to go better, which they did. In Ubuntu and Windows, the menu is attached to the application, so you can just click on the menu in any open application.Īnd my final thought of Day 1, as I shut things down for the day: Why does exit not just exit the terminal? Why do I still have to close the window? Friday – Day 2 If you want to access the menu, first you have to click on the application so that its menu becomes active in the menu bar, and then use the menu. This is fine if you are working in one application at a time, but the minute you switch to using multiple applications, especially in split-window mode, it becomes annoying. I also really don’t like the fact that Apple moves any application menus to the main menu bar at the top of the screen.
Lubuntu macbook battery life windows#
It turns out there isn’t, leading me to the 2nd piece of software I had to install to get some basic functionality that already exists in Windows and Ubuntu.
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I was hoping there was a way to do a simple split-window pane on macOS, similar to what I was used to on Ubuntu and Windows. Unfortunately, because it’s distraction-free, I can’t see the time without moving the mouse to the top of the screen, so it’s not ideal to use it before a time-sensitive activity, like a meeting. I stumbled across the fact that if I move the mouse to the top and the bottom of the screen, I can access the dock and the window menus, so that’s a nice touch.
Lubuntu macbook battery life full#
Originally I wasn’t sure that I liked that it goes full screen, but it’s quite nice for distraction-free side-by-side work. macOS has a “Tile Window to Left/Right of Screen” option, which I’ll admit is cool.
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When I’m editing content, especially if I’m working across two documents, I like to use Ubuntu’s split window pane feature to have two windows side by side on the screen. And don’t get me started on selecting lines of text! Not because I have to learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts, but because the Command key on the MacBook (or in my case, the Windows or Start key in a regular keyboard) is so close to the C and V keys that it actually slows me down each time I have to copy/paste. Not being able to use CTRL + C and CTRL + V on my wired mechanical keyboard is getting old, really old. And it’s one of the reasons I dislike Apple products. If you’ve read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, you know that Steve has certain opinions about keyboards. While we are talking about Apple’s way of doing things. So while this is not so much a complaint about the MacBook, more a reminder of why I have a desktop workstation in the first place, I do not like Apple’s approach when it comes to laptop I/O. However, the Asus Zenbook I used to compare to the MacBook has a built in HDMI port, USB type-A port, and 2 x USB type-C ports, so all I would need is one USB type-C to USB type-A hub, and I’d be set. I will gladly concede that I would still need to use at least one USB hub if I was using a different laptop. So now this is the mess of hubs behind the MacBook, just to get all my peripherals working.
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While the hub did its job well (more on this later), I had to hook up another USB type-A hub to the USB type-C hub, to be able to add enough USB ports to also connect my webcam and my microphone. The first annoyance started when I connected the MacBook up to the USB type-C hub I had purchased. You can read why I tried this experiment here. This post summarizes my (almost) week of using a Mac, as a long-time Ubuntu user.