Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade

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Shortcat

For the Command Tab issue, I created rcmd to fix it: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd It became really annoying to press tab 5 times just to get to the app I need. If you’re interested in technical writings, I recently wrote about my journey to creating rcmd here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/window-switcher-app-store/ The dock stops being a problem once you set it to automatically hide and find ways to use the mouse less. Shortcat is another tool that helped improve my mouseless workflow, and is kinda of like a vimium for the whole system but with fuzzy search: https://shortcat.app.

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rcmd

For the Command Tab issue, I created rcmd to fix it: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd It became really annoying to press tab 5 times just to get to the app I need. If you’re interested in technical writings, I recently wrote about my journey to creating rcmd here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/window-switcher-app-store/ The dock stops being a problem once you set it to automatically hide and find ways to use the mouse less. Shortcat is another tool that helped improve my mouseless workflow, and is kinda of like a vimium for the whole system but with fuzzy search: https://shortcat.app.

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yabai

Indeed, power users are not really what Apple optimizes for. They try to dumb everything down, and it helps them in their ultimate goal: get more market share. You've actually stumbled upon the least configurable components of macOS: the Window Manager, and the Desktop Environment. On Linux you can choose your own, and you have so many different paradigms. I still miss i3 wm.. On macOS you don't have this choice, and you have to use apps to get to the workflow you need. I was a Windows power user for a few years, and now I use both Linux and macOS daily since 6 years ago. In the end, I feel more productive on macOS nowadays, mostly because there are many quality apps to get anything I want done, I don't have to worry that basic OS function will stop working when I update some dependency, and there are some macOS-native features that really improved my workflow. For example I didn't know how useful Live Text would be until the first time I noticed that Command-F search in Safari also searches text in images, or when I double clicked on a phone number and I could just call it with my iPhone (which was in another room) but keep talking from the MacBook. I can't even imagine how I would do that on Linux (surely doable, but nothing beats "already done and usable"), and it's just one of many features like that. I will end with some more software recommendations: yabai for window management (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) and skhd for hotkeys (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd) They are more Linux-like, using config files, free and easy to forget they aren't native.

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Arch Linux

> - before upgrading, glance at https://archlinux.org/news/ to see if anything requires manual intervention I simply have https://archlinux.org/ as my homepage when I open my browser on the desktop computer. Shows the same news in a slightly better format (personally), and also shows latest package updates on the right side, in case some favorite software of mine has been recently updated.

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