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Aral Balkan

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.

😍

#usability #design #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #gnome #macOS #linux

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@aral Silverblue has made me re-think the value of flatpak for user machines, too....

masukomi

@aral unrelated: please tell me that that tiny foot holding up your monitor is actually a clamp of some sort. It’s so small…

Aral Balkan

@masukomi Ah, what every man wants to hear :P (It’s the clamp for an adjustable arm) :)

claus

@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

@aral Wow i just discovered that my keyboard has an actual screenshot button 🤯 How did i miss this

Josh Mulliken

@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!

Jigme Datse

@aral I have alt-prtscr bringing up Spectacle. I never remember that, but it's *way* easier than just about anything on the Mac.

Speak softly love 🇱🇰
@aral Window management in Gnome anyway better than macOS as I have heard.
Herr Ungewiss 🐘

@aral Only a few more posts and I will abandon Ubuntu Budgie and install Fedora.

Michael Stanclift

@aral my Keychron board actually has a dedicated button

Pete Moore

@aral Wow, that’s actually really impresssive and intuitive. Great work, Fedora!

mikael

@aral What's the immutable way of life like? Why did you choose Silverblue over the “standard” Fedora? Less problems?

mikael

@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. 🙂

Aral Balkan

@mikael Will likely write/record something soon. About to hit the sack now :)

Sasha 🏳‍🌈

@aral me on Windows loving my ShareX that on top of that also has blurring, highlighting, text, scroll capture and truckload of other stuff that you didn't think you needed until you start using it... it was always pain to switch to Linux at least for this very reason

mray

@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 👍

frigidcode

@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.

Akzel

@aral The new screenshot feature has easily been my favorite addition in GNOME 42. It's so good

Geoff 🏳️‍🌈

@aral On my Mac it is: Shift + Cmd + 4 + two goodwill wishes to Tim Cook + wiggle, all while my knees shake as I hope I have not angered the Apple overlord.

My Linux box is KDE, and, like with Gnome, I just ask politely while I set my own keyboard shortcut.

It’s been a while since I used Gnome, but your screenshot makes it look cool 😎!

Сталкер Commander1024

@aral the same was previously possible by default hotkeys (Shift+PrintScreen). Sad, that those were dropped. :-(

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