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by mprev 2937 days ago
Precisely. For me it was 2001 to 2012. In the six years since, I miss two things from Linux based desktops: being easily able to launch any application from the terminal and having a clock in the top bar that also has a calendar widget.

What I’ve gained is productivity in a whole bunch of non-dev scenarios. People moan about Creative Cloud or Office pricing but I now no longer have to make a hundred little compromises each day.
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watersb 2936 days ago
> launch any application from the terminal

I am not sure I understand the issue here, but is there some reason that 'open -a "ApplicationName"' does not work for you?

I can think of some things; I haven't tried but the app developer would need to provide an API to handle command-line options. Sometimes I examine an application's Scripting dictionary via the Script Editor or Automator, but in general I am not writing big shell scripts to drive applicaitons.

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mprev 2934 days ago
With Ubuntu, and other Linuxen I've used, it's a matter of typing "firefox" or whatever the app is called. So, sure, I can type the extra but what I like about the Linux world is that there's no distinction between terminal and GUI apps when it comes to launching from the terminal.
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