[HN Gopher] Albert - open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
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       Albert - open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
        
       Author : Curiositry
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-06-04 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (albertlauncher.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (albertlauncher.github.io)
        
       | albertzeyer wrote:
       | Nice, thanks for naming a project after me. :P
       | 
       | I also like the ALBERT lite-BERT model
       | (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942). Although this was just a
       | matter of time. The other names which match to "*bert*" were
       | already taken.
       | 
       | Anyway, going on topic: Such a project really should have a
       | related work section, right at the beginning, because there are
       | many existing launchers, and just say how this is different
       | (maybe better). E.g. see here
       | (https://alternativeto.net/software/alfred/?platform=linux). But
       | I also would be interested on differences e.g. to Alfred (Mac). I
       | really wonder why such comparisons are very often missing.
       | 
       | Also, a bit more information would be nice. Is this cross
       | platform? Or Linux only? It seems Mac is on the todo-list
       | (https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/1050) but I
       | don't see a Mac binary download, so I assume it's not ready yet?
       | Although the issue was closed.
       | 
       | Btw, the last commit is from on 9 Oct 2021. So maybe already
       | abandoned?
        
       | pluc wrote:
       | Albert - https://albertlauncher.github.io/
       | 
       | Synapse - https://launchpad.net/synapse-project
       | 
       | fbrun - https://linux.die.net/man/1/fbrun
       | 
       | rofi (my personal favourite) - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
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       | gmrun - https://github.com/WdesktopX/gmrun
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       | krunner - https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner
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       | dmenu - https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
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       | and shout out to Alfred for Mac - https://www.alfredapp.com/
       | 
       | map any of these to ctrl+space or super+space and never use the
       | start menu/icon launchers again (or don't run a desktop at all!)
        
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