Title: I&#x27;m switching from OS X to Linux because I&#x27;m tired of having to have a kernel extension to remap keys and a stupid &quot;window manager&quot; just so I can hit Caps Lock+Up to make a window fill the screen. But more importantly, I&#x27;m tired of every feature and option being taken away from me. OS X is just going downhill, so it&#x27;s probably a good idea to switch as soon as possible.<p>There are a few things that I&#x27;d want in my new Linux distro:<p>- I&#x27;d <i>really</i> love to keep my OS X-style keybindings. It&#x27;s really frustrating for me to be on Windows and try to paste the system clipboard into a command line. What is it again? Shift-Insert or Control-Insert? And how do I open a new terminal window? Alt-F2?<p>- The above also goes for Emacs text editing bindings (OS X comes with C-p, C-n, C-k, C-o, C-v, etc.). I want them around too.<p>So being able to rebind keys is really important to me.<p>I&#x27;m also looking to replace a couple apps:<p>- iTerm2. I was sure this wouldn&#x27;t be a problem, but after looking more into it, apparently ... it is. I&#x27;ve heard that some emulators can&#x27;t even wrap text properly. I&#x27;d also like if it could support profile switching via escape code and other nice things like that.<p>- Alfred. Not so much for searching for applications, more for having a mini-&quot;command line&quot; that I can use from anywhere.<p>Another thing is compatibility. Of course if that was my highest priority, I&#x27;d go with Ubuntu and Unity. It seems like more and more things are starting to say &quot;Linux&quot; when they mean &quot;stock Ubuntu&quot;. I cannot stand Unity, so I&#x27;m thinking Linux Mint. I&#x27;m also giving Elementary OS a try in a VM right now, so we&#x27;ll see how that goes.
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