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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by LMAlVvQjSGj »

ammobear wrote: post #26

Spotify. Very rarely do I run into performance issues or bugs on any platform.

Spotify has been nearly unusable for me ever since Spotify moved to Chromium Embedded.

Something is wrong when I have to wait several seconds so scroll further down a list of song names.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by PaulHoule »

gshx wrote: post #6
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

IntelliJ Idea is head and shoulders better than many other IDEs, particularly Eclipse in the reliability department.

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

I worked with Eclipse for a few years and found it was a constant source of stress, refusing to stay synchronized with maven, crashing, having to restart it, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by codepie »

nanny wrote: post #30
codepie wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure them from scratch. For example you have to add a plugin for small things such as a battery indicator. The custom themes were too much bloated for me. I ended up installing shellshape for gnome. Do you know any tiling window manager which solves this?

I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).

For some reasons i3 was showing wrong value for battery. It also had issues with the graphic drivers, showing black screen on logging in. So I didn't consider it as a viable option for me.
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