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I will absolutely go nuts if this thing manages to run OneNote on my Debian desktop.

Follow up: Of course it doesn't work. It contains some native code. I don't think I'm that adventurous that I'll try it with a arm multiarch Chrome.

Please don't downvote this.

What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX? I ask this as a former Linux die hard. What am I missing back in the Linux world these days?

Also, One Note is killer isn't it? It is so much nicer than Evernote. I've loved One Note ever since the first time it shipped with Office. It's so great to see Microsoft porting their better apps to other platforms.

|What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX?

Freedom.

I can't (easily and reliably) get OS X to run on my non-Mac computer while Debian runs like a champion, this is what's missing from OS X :) Otherwise I would like to try it seriously as my main OS if I get a chance in the future. Heck, I even used Windows 7/8 for a few years and even they get good enough after installing Cygwin, so I can't think of any showstoppers that would make me dislike OS X. (Well, lack of the vast apt repository may be a problem, but they say very good things about homebrew and MacPorts, so this wouldn't be an issue I guess.)

I was a heavy OneNote user in Windows and accumulated a lot of stuff in it, so after coming back to Debian, I desperately tried running it in Wine and also tried the Web version but unfortunately they didn't cut it. Currently I use CherryTree[0] and it gets the job done but it's very far away from the OneNote experience.

[0] http://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

If you have an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard OneNote is great on iOS. Also, thanks for the link to Cherry Tree. It looks cool.

You're welcome. I'll try it when I get a chance. It's nice to hear Microsoft had done a good job with OneNote in iOS instead of getting away with a half baked port.

I use SimpleNote, its dead simple text notes, not a full replacement for OneNote of course, but it suits my needs and has an open api.

I use and love it also :) But it doesn't satisfy all my note taking needs so I use it mostly for sharing and storing short-lived texts that I need to access from my phone.

I heard Simplenote developers was also thinking about a native & offical Linux client. I can't wait to try it out.

and I got downvoted... sheesh HN.

Saying "please don't downvote this" does not immunise you from getting downvoted.

It was more like, "hey wait I'm not attacking Linux, just read the full comment". Didn't work.

I read the whole comment. It is still an off topic plug.

And a ridiculous one

Logged in after many months just to downvote you, then realized I can not :( Please accept this sincere comment as a dovnvote!

Lesson learned. Thank you.

What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX?

The ability to use any hardware other than a Mac, presumably.

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