Akkana Peck writes about Linux, Python, GIMP, astronomy, and hobby projects.
HN links it for her GIMP save/export plugin, which commenters credit for making non-XCF saving easier, and for other Linux and Python tips.
This has been my experience exactly.
I switched from Linux to OSX/MacOS around eight years ago, and the better and (to me) more intuitive modifier keys have been one of the features that have kept me there; along with the convenience of Emacs/Readline keybindings for text editing everywhere.
Getting keybindings to work the same way in Linux currently involves a Rube Goldberg setup of GTK3 key themes [1] and AutoKey [2] for me, and some things still don't work right (Super-W closing a single tab in Firefox/Chrome, etc.) Also, it looks like key themes are going away in GTK4 [3].
The Hawck daemon cited elsewhere in the conversation looks promising, maybe that'll work better.
[1] http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/gtk3-emacs-key-theme.html
[2] https://github.com/autokey/autokey
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1669
Ill never forget the comments in termcap: "Brain dead", "Very Brain dead" and "Brain? What brain!" I think most of that was terminals that CTEOL Clear to end of line was just garbage.
We just knew that at some point in time, all the Hazeltine terminals were going to end up in the garbage, which is what they deserved, and no one would rescue them.
https://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html
The parent post is SOLID GOLD.
Gimp 2.8 frustrated me: I could no longer open a .png, edit it and easily resave it back to .png. The Gimp developers knew better and made the UI strongly favor saving as .xcf, which makes sense in some use-cases, but not mine.
I found this fix, which made quick uses of GIMP less painful for me: http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/
I'm assuming the new save behavior persists in Gimp 2.9.x, but I don't know.
I've been using Gimp for ages (15 to 20 years) and it was always solid for me. Maybe I was just using the more stable features? But I've mostly used it on Linux. My major gripe was the Save / Export fiasco [0] but even that is OK now thanks to Saver plugin [1].
[0] http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/14339-hate-the-new-save-vs-export-behavior
[1] http://shallowsky.com/blog/gimp/saver.html
It was called Palm Pilot - the one pictured as the very first image in Wikipedia [1]. It still works, except for some bleeding/damage on a portion of the e-Ink screen. I probably need to find the appropriate Linux based tools to load the .PRC. I wonder if this [2] still works
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot
[2] https://shallowsky.com/linux/palmlinuxdev.html
Agree 100%.
About save/export debacle, someone made a plugin which makes saving to non-xcf easier [0] - big thank you to them. It allowed me to still use Gimp when I had to manually edit 100s of PNGs.
It is incredibly frustrating to see good software (I love Gimp otherwise) tarnished with such rookie mistakes/decisions.
[0] https://shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/