Want an example of where Fedora Silverblue 36 trumps the usability of macOS? See the gorgeous new screenshot feature (part of GNOME 42).
1. What do you press to take a screenshot on a Mac? I keep forgetting the silly combination… On my machine, it’s the Print Screen button.
2. The screenshot feature is entirely intuitive with no hidden functionality; it remembers your choices and lets you record stills or videos.
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#usability #design #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #gnome #macOS #linux
@aral Silverblue has made me re-think the value of flatpak for user machines, too....
@aral sway ftw
@aral unrelated: please tell me that that tiny foot holding up your monitor is actually a clamp of some sort. It’s so small…
@masukomi Ah, what every man wants to hear :P (It’s the clamp for an adjustable arm) :)
@aral Not sure if your question was rhetorical, but Command-Shift-5, and it seems to work exactly the same as in Fedora (Macs do not have a Print Screen key though, this is not the 80s anymore)
@claus Because the icon says “windscreen wiper?” :)
@aral lol fair enough
@claus Indeed: two additional keys to do the same thing in 40 years… that’s what I call innovation. Also, did you see the sweet window selector? Oh, and it’s open source ;)
@aral I think having a "print screen" key that doesn't actually "print" the screen is worse than having a shortcut that does exactly what it was designed for. The last time you actually pressed a "print screen" key to print the screen was probably 40 years ago 😆
@aral it is awesome! I mapped the Mac shortcut keys to that feature and am loving it. It is not as good as CleanShotX but is competing hard!
@aral I have alt-prtscr bringing up Spectacle. I never remember that, but it's *way* easier than just about anything on the Mac.
@aral Only a few more posts and I will abandon Ubuntu Budgie and install Fedora.
@aral Wow, that’s actually really impresssive and intuitive. Great work, Fedora!
@aral What's the immutable way of life like? Why did you choose Silverblue over the “standard” Fedora? Less problems?
@aral Or rather (after reading up a little bit), what are the trade-offs and inconveniences like? A stable system is a good (with roll-backs), so that part sounds tempting. 🙂
@mikael Will likely write/record something soon. About to hit the sack now :)
@mikael I’m still finding my way a little but I love this system. There’s definitely room for improvement. You shouldn’t have to know or care that the core OS is read-only for example.
@aral Cool. Looking forward to a closer look! Sleep well. 🌝
@aral 😍 It is almost perfect. The downside is that it changed with my last Manjaro update, and I wondered why I can't make screenshots anymore (ending up installing extra software 🤔). I was not aware that this landed! Thanks for pointing it out 👍
@aral I am *very* tempted to try out SilverBlue. I think I'll try it in a VM and test out installing the @pop_os_official extensions before committing. It seems like a smaller stepping stone than going right to NixOS.
@aral The new screenshot feature has easily been my favorite addition in GNOME 42. It's so good
@aral the same was previously possible by default hotkeys (Shift+PrintScreen). Sad, that those were dropped. :-(
@aral it's super stable too.
@aral I use both and to be frank I find faster ⌘⇧3, 4, 5. Though, copy to clipboard is very convenient, I don't think macOS has this feature
@fralbinati yes it has: hit CTRL when you do the screenshot combination of your liking and it would save the printscreen in your clipboard ready to be pasted anywhere. @aral
yes, they improve that very well ...
and if you dont have printscreen key on your keyboard then you can map any key. go to settings, search for shortcut ;-)
@aral I do:
- CMD SHIFT 3 for a fullscreen capture
- CMD SHIFT 4 for capturing a selection
- CMD SHIFT 4 + space (afterwards) for capturing a single window
- CMD SHIFT 5 for various video captures
- Hitting CTRL before activating hte print screen, it saves the screenshot in the system's clipboard ready to be pasted.
@aral the gnome 42 screenshot builtin feature still lacks a lot of functionalities, it's far way better flameshot in my humble opinion.
@aral Of course there's a pretty good reason why screenshots on macOS aren't taken using the Print Screen key...
@aral ⌘⇧5