![]() They copy to one, and then paste from the other and winner why their copy didn't work. Most people get confused by the fact that there is more than one "clipboardy thing". Sometimes there's also a keyboard shortcut, and if there is it's often a modified form of the clipboard-selection's paste shortcut. ![]() The primary selection is usually "pasted" with middle mouse button. Usually it's analogous to the way you copy to it, like ctrl-V, or a context menu. The clipboard selection is pasted with some other explicit action. In most apps, the primary selection is populated merely by selecting something, while the clipboard selection is populated by some sort of explicit user action, like ctrl-C or a context menu. There's an arbitrary number of them, but there are only two selections that are used by most apps: the "primary" selection and the "clipboard" selection. ![]() In X terminology they are called "selections". Instead of "the clipboard" X has multiple clipboard-like things. This is actually an X11 thing - it predates Linux. At this point I just decided to start using my Macbook again until I get un-frustrated enough to figure out what to do with the Dell. Now, it just boots to a cursor on a black I did `do-release-upgrade -d` without realizing it was a dev version, then after a few minutes of reading I realized it was, so I cancelled it, and rebooted my computer. `do-release-upgrade` wouldn't recognize there was a new version available (this was a few days ago). In an attempt to fix the above issues, I tried to update to Ubuntu 18.04 (it was on the latest 16.04). I've also tried updating/changing/etc libinput and it doesn't do anything. If you brush it with a single atom of your finger as you're typing, the cursor will move around wildly, often selecting most of the text you've typed and overwriting it with your next character. If you move around it too much it "locks up" the cursor and you can't move anymore, you have to click it several times while dragging until it starts working again. The trackpad interface is nothing short of _atrocious_. I've gotten used to listening to music with a crackle superimposed on top. I've tried updating audio drivers, enabling/disabling various things, editing config files, etc. Headphones constantly crackle when they're plugged in. I'm not a Linux hater, but these are simple things there doesn't seem to be a fix for. I've tried, but here are the issues I've run into. But overall, for me, they were not enough for the inconveniences. The things I did get from the mac: (And the reason I was trying to switch): Better hardware (especially screen, touchpad), better battery life, lighter weight. Never had an issue with sleep/hibernate not working in Linux. Ubuntu is just as good, if not better, than MacOS for those things. I would gladly buy it through the app-store if they were available there, but none of those I wanted were.īut the biggest thing is, I hardly got anything from the Mac that I didn't already have with Ubuntu I do science, programming, and a little bit of movie watching / internet browsing - no multimedia production. I would probably have spent $500 on things, glad to support the ecosystem, but it's from 10 different vendors, each with their own terms-of-service and mail and having to register and stuff. Part of it was the inconvenience of having to buy a lot of thing I could earlier "apt-get". Some of it is just unfamiliarity, some of it is trivia that is hard to get used to (I've been binding alt-shift to some actions for the three decades - and the Mac won't let me do that), and part of it is the Mac crapping all over my directories with DS_Store files and whatever. I was trying to do the opposite transition a couple of years ago (Ubuntu+Unity -> MacOS), and the Mac feels so clunky in comparison - I eventually switched back to Ubuntu, though I might try again soon.
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