On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:02:42 +0100 René J.V. Bertin via X11-users <x11-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> if you need X11 on a Mac that also needs to run Mac applications but > if you do all your work on Linux anyway it'd make more sense to run > that OS on the Apple hardware All my work is on Linux. I use others' work on macOS. I use macOS to display PDFs (etc.) and to manage most non-technical email. I use Safari and Chrome for the web. Also, silly things like the calendar and contacts and "notes" are synchronized with my phone and ipad. I've never seen a Linux desktop that holds a candle to Apple's GUI. I have my complaints about it, too, of course. My objective is to minimize the time I spend putzing with the computer. I let Apple update it from time to time, usually after XQuartz crashes, which happens every few months. > >At the user level, the environments are indistinguisable. emacs > >is emacs. > > Oh, right. Forget what I said about overdimensioned hardware ;) Is there such a thing as overdimensioned hardware today? ;-) On a system where the *web browser* uses 1.5 GB? I recommend emacs to everyone learning to program, and occassionally to the experienced programmer. Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping dates from when 8 MB was a lot of memory. emacs is sometimes maddenly slow, but show me an editor that isn't. Why emacs? Because knowledge, like interest, compounds. 1. emacs is the only editor for which the extension language is the implementation language. The entire envrionment is consistently modifiable and extensible. 2. emacs has great community support. This giant old creaky editor keeps keeping up. There is a packaging system now, for example, and an XQuartz implementation. There is LSP support. The consequence is the usual Unix story: if you want it, it's likely been done already. For tiny personal choices, like the format of the title bar or mode line, there is a rich set of options. Wherever you turn, for things big and small, the method and syntax is exactly the same. In 25 years, I can't think of anything I learned about emacs that is now obsolete. I'm sure in your experience, too, that's not true of a lot of software. Anyway, enjoy your laptop. If you don't, you're not doing it right. :-) --jkl _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list (X11-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
