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And after moving to linux start an "Ask HN" topic "what tools can replace macos tools on linux".

Your comment would be: "not having all the tools available is a symptom of using linux as a desktop os".

I get that this is a troll comment, and I shouldn't feed it... but seriously, what tools does macos have that linux doesn't? (I type this on a macbook pro) I have to add a ton of things to OS X in order to get it to behave in a sane manner... utilities to manage windows, utilities to re-enable the volume keys when I connect to an external display, utilities to enable alt-tab-like behavior, a utility to take screenshots that have sortable timestamps -- so the latest screenshot is always at the top, homebrew, which lets me install software, GCC... the list goes on... that's not even development-specific utilities.

All of the development-specific tools are cross-platform. I have yet to use a tool that isn't available on Linux, and our entire development staff are running OSX full-time.

Just open an ask hn for it;-) I will vote it up!

Sketch, Keynote, Paw

I'm a developer, but I also talk at community groups and conferences. I know there are alternatives (Inkscape, Impress, Postman) but they're all missing one or more features I use frequently, or are just not as polished.

That being said I'll probably make the change to Linux for my many development machine at some point and keep an Air or something lightweight as a conference/presentation machine.

Please don't take this the wrong way but the most important thing in a presentation should not be the graphical aspect of the slides, it should be the content, specifically how you can communicate with the audience with what you're saying verbally.

I have seen awesome talks and it didn't matter if the slides were not pretty.

I recommend you to take a presentation training from domain experts (mainly physchologists) and you'll understand how wrong you are.

Experts that think ever meeting needs a PowerPoint? No thanks.

A Google doc outline and some demo is enough for most dev presos.

Well, like you know how to tell your problem to computers, those experts know how to tell your problem to human beings. And higher you are in your career, more you have to speak non-tech people that pays your salary and needs to be convinced about your next idea.

That assumes one's goal is to go into soul sucking middle management at a large tech company. For many of us, that is not our goal.

Yes but effective communication is NOT about visuals or font choice. An idea presented clearly and concisely is key.

Visual presentation plays a big role in a .. well.. _presentation_.

Yeah, I can see how those three are more polished. I guess I just don't use them... I was blissfully unaware of them, as the alternatives are good enough...

perhaps it's the same set of tools but up to date.

compare the versions from your brew list with the packages in your vagrant box for the most popular Linux distributions..

i always find it funny that on BSD's i use latest versions of software developed on Linux, while on Linux (Ubuntu, mint, Debian, centos) they are years behind.

Big ones for me are Google Drive and Evernote.

> what tools does macos have that linux doesn't?

I'd personally strongly miss Tower (for Git), Transmit (SFTP/AWS S3), Sequel Pro, Postico, and the iOS Simulator.

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