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Re: Broken

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

outime wrote: post #29

capableweb wrote: post #26

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How is this related to a post talking about a(nother) buggy macOS release?

You are right, I commented in the wrong thread

Re: Broken

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Post by devmunchies » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

I like and use XFCE as well, but how is that relevant to this post? haha

Re: Broken

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

What Linux distro do you run Xfce on?

Re: Broken

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

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Re: Broken

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Post by mherrmann » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #33

mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

What Linux distro do you run Xfce on?

Just Debian.

Re: Broken

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

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Re: Broken

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Post by irq » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

arboghast wrote: post #30

mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

So was I until I switch to a 4k monitor and realize that there's no real, stable, functional fractional scaling on Linux, even less so on XFCE, unfortunately.

This is the biggest thing keeping me from leaving the Mac for Linux, and it hasn’t really improved much in the last 4 years. I don’t think most people care about HighDPI (or whatever you want to call it), particularly Linux devs. But I can’t go back to lower DPI screens.

Re: Broken

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Post by commandlinefan » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

Looks like the page itself is broken, too... from the comments I presume that there's something wrong with the latest version of OS/X?

Re: Broken

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Post by justinator » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

Running a 2015 Macbook w/High Sierra. I feel pretty alright about things.

I'll check back in a year if there's any compelling reason to upgrade.

Re: Broken

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Post by DeadBabyOrgasm » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

Looks like it's the HN hug of death for this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010183502/https://tyler.io/...