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The things I would miss most leaving Mac... 1. Uploading my Signature in Preview and being able to sign and edit PDF documents on any of my Apple Devices. 2.

The things I would miss most leaving Mac... 1. Uploading my Signature in Preview and being able to sign and edit PDF documents on any of my Apple Devices. 2. Screen rendering quality, on Mac everything seems to be sharper and more crisp than Linux on the same device. 3. Keynote. I so want a cross-platform replacement that is nearly as good. 4. iMessage integration with phone. I can send sms/iMessages from my Mac. But I am planning to switch anyways. As all these companies move to a "service model", I feel like I am only leasing my software, and tools that make the hardware work. Furthermore, it feels impossible to get under the hood anymore. Would love any advice or recommendations for the above.

jcelerier 7y ago
For 2. That's funny, for me mac screens look like a blurry mess while Linux are the sharpest thing around with infinality patches. For 4. There is kde connect (you don't need to run kde to have it). Works only with android though afaik.
- hiram112 7y ago
  Are infinality patches still being updated? Those were about the only reason I could tolerate a standard Centos or RHEL desktop, but I'd heard the maintainer 'disappeared' and nobody has picked them back up.
  - jcelerier 7y ago
    For some time there weren't but now someone is on it again : ``` aur/cairo-infinality 1.17.2+11+gdfe3aa6d8-1 (38) (0,00) aur/cairo-infinality-remix 1.17.2+17+g52a7c79fd-1 (6) (1,33) aur/fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (310) (0,00) aur/fontconfig-infinality-remix 2.13.1-2 (6) (1,33) aur/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 [installed] (21) (0,00) aur/fonts-meta-base 1-2 [installed] (90) (0,09) aur/fonts-meta-extended-lt 3-1 [installed] (91) (0,09) aur/freetype2-demos-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-demos-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44) aur/freetype2-docs-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44) aur/freetype2-ultimate5 2.10.1-1 [installed] (12) (1,00) aur/gimp-font-rendering-fix 1-1 (5) (0,00) aur/grip-git 20120917-1 (37) (0,00) aur/jdk7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jdk8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/jre7-openjdk-headless-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jre7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jre8-openjdk-headless-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/jre8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (0) (0,00) aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 (3) (0,00) aur/lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate 2.9.1-2 (Out of Date) (9) (0,04) aur/ttf-dejavu-ib 2.37-2 (0) (0,00) ```
- MarcScott 7y ago
  Also messages.google.com with Android. But with the obvious caveat that you're giving extra data to Google.
kam 7y ago
For 1, Xournal can open PDFs, insert text, images, and annotations, and export back to PDF.
- SanchoPanda 7y ago
  Libreoffice draw is amazing at PDF documents as well. It's something that feels like it should be advertised more, though I can imagine why they don't.
SanchoPanda 7y ago
3 - libreoffice impress. For Numbers I like gnumeric over libreoffice Calc, but nothing really holds a candle to excel unfortunately.
- bionicbits 7y ago
  Will check this out. Been decades since I last tried libre office. fingers crossed
- C1sc0cat 7y ago
  Calc actually works much better for spread sheets with odd character sets than excel does.
shantly 7y ago
Preview is amazing. I’ve never used another PDF reader that didn’t make me sad every time I had to use it. It’s nice to like PDFs. Signing and moving pages between or to new PDFs are my most-used features. And it’s the best basic image viewer / light editor I’ve used.

jcelerier 7y ago

For 2. That's funny, for me mac screens look like a blurry mess while Linux are the sharpest thing around with infinality patches. For 4. There is kde connect (you don't need to run kde to have it). Works only with android though afaik.

hiram112 7y ago
Are infinality patches still being updated? Those were about the only reason I could tolerate a standard Centos or RHEL desktop, but I'd heard the maintainer 'disappeared' and nobody has picked them back up.
- jcelerier 7y ago
  For some time there weren't but now someone is on it again : ``` aur/cairo-infinality 1.17.2+11+gdfe3aa6d8-1 (38) (0,00) aur/cairo-infinality-remix 1.17.2+17+g52a7c79fd-1 (6) (1,33) aur/fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (310) (0,00) aur/fontconfig-infinality-remix 2.13.1-2 (6) (1,33) aur/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 [installed] (21) (0,00) aur/fonts-meta-base 1-2 [installed] (90) (0,09) aur/fonts-meta-extended-lt 3-1 [installed] (91) (0,09) aur/freetype2-demos-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-demos-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44) aur/freetype2-docs-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-infinality 2.10.0-4 (470) (0,01) aur/freetype2-infinality-remix 2.10.1-1 (7) (1,44) aur/freetype2-ultimate5 2.10.1-1 [installed] (12) (1,00) aur/gimp-font-rendering-fix 1-1 (5) (0,00) aur/grip-git 20120917-1 (37) (0,00) aur/jdk7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jdk8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/jre7-openjdk-headless-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jre7-openjdk-infinality 7.u171_2.6.13-1 (27) (0,00) aur/jre8-openjdk-headless-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/jre8-openjdk-infinality 8.u172-3 (33) (0,00) aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality 2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 (0) (0,00) aur/lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.13.1-1 (3) (0,00) aur/lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate 2.9.1-2 (Out of Date) (9) (0,04) aur/ttf-dejavu-ib 2.37-2 (0) (0,00) ```
MarcScott 7y ago
Also messages.google.com with Android. But with the obvious caveat that you're giving extra data to Google.

kam 7y ago

For 1, Xournal can open PDFs, insert text, images, and annotations, and export back to PDF.

SanchoPanda 7y ago
Libreoffice draw is amazing at PDF documents as well. It's something that feels like it should be advertised more, though I can imagine why they don't.

SanchoPanda 7y ago

3 - libreoffice impress. For Numbers I like gnumeric over libreoffice Calc, but nothing really holds a candle to excel unfortunately.

bionicbits 7y ago
Will check this out. Been decades since I last tried libre office. fingers crossed
C1sc0cat 7y ago
Calc actually works much better for spread sheets with odd character sets than excel does.

shantly 7y ago

Preview is amazing. I’ve never used another PDF reader that didn’t make me sad every time I had to use it. It’s nice to like PDFs. Signing and moving pages between or to new PDFs are my most-used features. And it’s the best basic image viewer / light editor I’ve used.