Trying to switch from MacOS to #
Ubuntu #
Linux and it is proving to be far more of a challenge than I thought. Is there any site or forum that is particularly good for finding replacement software? I will say this much, don't ask an AI, they are terrible at figuring out what you really want and just tend to make generic suggestions.
Some things I am (still) looking for include:
A program that lives in the Ubuntu top menu bar (NOT the dock) and that when you click on it will show you text snippets and that will allow you to click on any one of them with your MOUSE, and either paste it in the foreground process (preferably), or copy it to the Ubuntu clipboard. This is for storing frequently used text strings. Here I am trying to replace a MacOS program called Clipy which is ALSO a clipboard manager, and I have found a replacement clipboard manager that works for me (Diodon) but as far as I can see it does not let you save a separate list of text snippets that never changes.
Speaking of clipboards, is there a program that will always keep the two Linux clipboards in sync (so both have the same content) without making selection of text using the mouse totally wonky? It is REALLY confusing to me to have two different clipboards.
I'm still looking for a decent RSS feed reader that will show you the full text of articles without making you click on each one individually. I have looked at several and have not found a single one I like. There used to be a Windows program called GreatNews that I liked (and thought about trying to run in WINE) but apparently it has not been updated since 2015 and the developer that made it (Curio Studio) apparently is no longer around, but I wonder if that got renamed to something else or whatever happened to it. This is to replace Vienna.
Finally I am looking for a good single-site browser for turning specific web sites into standalone apps (as a stopgap until I can find some decent standalone apps that work in Linux). Here I am trying to replace Fluid.
I am seriously wondering if my inability to find good apps is based partly on my decision to run Ubuntu. It seems like the combination of Gnome with Wayland causes a lot of issues that might not be a problem with a different desktop environment or if I was running X windows, but is that really an issue or am I just imagining things? As I was looking for software (especially the clipboard stuff) I got the sense that there was a lot you could do in X windows that you cannot do in Wayland, and especially Wayland paired with Gnome.
The thing is, though, that I like to use my mouse rather than my keyboard and I like GUI's and menus and such, so there are many programs that some other Linux users might find appealing that would totally turn me off, for example Espanso would be an example of a program that does not appeal to be at all because it is oriented toward people who prefer using the keyboard and who have good enough memories to remember all the shortcuts.
