{"id":660,"date":"2016-11-18T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.apeconsulting.co.uk\/wordpress\/adrian\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-11-18T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:42:08","slug":"where-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.apeconsulting.co.uk\/adrian\/where-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great question! &nbsp;I guess my aim is to see if I could live in eOS should there come a time when I feel the need to ditch macOS.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to get into the applications too much in the post and will save that for later when I have a nice and stable system that&#8217;s doing most of what I want. &nbsp;Needless to say, I know I&#8217;m not going to get some&nbsp;software that runs permanently on my Mac, but I know of alternatives for some (e.g. MS Office) and will be interested to see if new ones exist for others (e.g OmniFocus &#8211; I&#8217;d really really miss that!)<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I love macOS so much is the interaction with the enormous trackpad. &nbsp;If you&#8217;ve never used an Apple trackpad you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re missing. &nbsp;If you have, you know what I mean. &nbsp;Using 2, 3 and 4 finger gestures is something I&#8217;d really miss and I&#8217;m going to try and tackle this early on. &nbsp;It&#8217;s one of the things that might have broken the 1st (undocumented) attempt, so I don&#8217;t want to get too far in only to find I break &#8216;take 2&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I also need to be able to access other services on my network, including&nbsp;my FreeNAS machine and shared folders, ownCloud server, Plex Media Server, to name but a few. &nbsp;I also need to be able to connect back into my network remotely using something like openVPN.<\/p>\n<p>So this is where I&#8217;ll be starting. &nbsp;Trying to get the trackpad to feel a little macOS like and connected to everything in my network.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also applied a theme to the rEFInd boot menu on my 1st attempt (which took way too much time) and it looked much nicer, although didn&#8217;t offer anything the default one does. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll get around to this at some stage, but not right now.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to join me on the journey, or simply to laugh at my mistakes along the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great question! &nbsp;I guess my aim is to see if I could live in eOS should there come a time when I feel the need to ditch macOS. 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