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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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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For me it’s the Mac Finder. It’s always running so (unless it crashes) there’s no delay in opening a file manager window and, more importantly, it has built in Quicklook and Miller columns. Haven’t managed to find a good-enough implementation of either of those in Linux, so I just work around it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

nothing beats the mac finder, mac touchpad, and mac scaling/ui. other than that, linux does everything windows/mac does, but better. imo. so definitely in agreement here.

[–] olympicyes 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Show all folder sizes” is MacOS’ greatest innovation IMO. Honorable mention to Messages app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It this similar to "disk usage analyser"?

I hate that windows doesn't have something like this built in.

[–] olympicyes 2 points 1 day ago

It just lets you opt to see the folder size as an attribute in list view the same as you can a file in Windows or Linux. It’s more or less the same info as disk usage analyzer but without the flower and displayed inline which is useful and convenient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It always shocks me that Linux file mangers don’t embrace Miller columns. They’re so great.