For me it’s the Mac Finder. It’s always running so (unless it crashes) there’s no delay in opening a file manager window and, more importantly, it has built in Quicklook and Miller columns. Haven’t managed to find a good-enough implementation of either of those in Linux, so I just work around it.
Linux runs fine on Intel Macs. There are a couple peculiarities you’ll want to be aware of, though.
Other than those initial hiccups, everything works pretty flawlessly.
Kate is really a hidden gem. It’s so light weight and just gets out of the way. I’m now installing it everywhere—Linux, Mac, or Windows.
I think it’s just a matter of getting used to it. I had the same issue at first and the more I used the command line, the more I started to prefer it to GUI apps for certain tasks.
A couple things that I use all the time:
cd - goes back to the last directory you were in (useful for bouncing back and forth between locations)!$ means the last argument. So if you ls ~/Downloads and then decide you want to go there, you can cd !$.:h removes the last piece of a path. So I can do vim /etc/network/interfaces and then cd !$:h will take me to /etc/network.
Take this with a grain of salt, the more I re-read, the more I realize I’m making assumptions about your setup that may or may not be true. First, I’m making an assumption that you’re doing ACLs for samba shares (and I know that system better on FreeBSD than Linux). I’m also assuming based on your description you want everyone to have access, but not write access.
I think you could do an
officewidegroup with read-only permissions on all of the shares and then set the unix group to the department.So, for your HR team you’d do
chgrp -R hr /path/to/parent/shares/hrandsetfacl -m d:g:rwx /path/to/parent/shares/hrand add theofficewidegroup’s read-only perms:setfacl -m d:g:officewide:rx /path/to/parent/shares/hr. Rinse and repeat for each share.Not sure if this is what you’re after, but maybe it’ll help lead in a good direction.