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The point is 5k 27’’ displays are significantly more expensive than 4k 27’’ ones (which are very affordable). And unless you prefer very large everything, running a 4k 27’’ display at 2x (meaning 1920x1080) is not desirable. But 5k 27’’ displays can be relatively comfortably run at 2x.
I have a 4k 32", and IMHO 1x is too tiny, 2x too large, something like 125% or 150% is just right for me.
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I enjoyed reading i3's landing page, thanks for linking. So could you clarify for me, what's the relation between being a "tiling windows manager" and being light? Is it that for some technical reason one would expect tiling windows managers in general to be lighter than non-tiling? Or is it that orthogonally to the tiling aspect, i3 specifically aims to be light?
I don't think that there's anything inherent in tiling managers that mean they have to be light, but it's very common for them to be light. Ratpoison, xmonad, awesomewm and i3 are the most well known tiling managers (unless I've missed any out?) and all of them are very minimalist and resource light. My non-expert take on this is that the sort of person who sees value in the efficiencies from using a tiling WM are al…
Was anyone able to run 18.04 or 20.04 successfully on a relatively modern desktop spec (AMD Ryzen 9 3950X / Nvidia 2080 TI / 32GB RAM / Custom water cooling) and two displays? I'm thinking of upgrading my development machine and running ubuntu only and I'm looking for some hints as to what could go wrong.
I have no issues except for a driver issue for the audio chip on my mobo (Gigabyte Aorus Master TRX40) that seems to only affect optical audio out.
Cooling solution, RAM, and monitors aren't things that will have OS compatibility issues.
Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…
What's keeping Adobe from releasing Photoshop for Ubuntu ? Convincing ? Or real technical difficulties ? Like recoding the interface ?
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The amount of cases for malicious snaps was about 1 with the cryptominer that was addressed within 3 days. Those snaps that are published go through static analysis and unless manually vetted will not have access to the rest of your system. You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it. Oh and you can remove it completely with all traces unlike deb equivalents. Snaps come with a tick against verified snaps c…
> You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it. Last time I looked, snaps still had access to the X server. They were therefore perfectly capable of logging and inserting keystrokes, capturing whatever sensitive information is on screen, etc. Has this changed? I don't think Wayland would solve this, because even if Ubuntu switches to Wayland, variants like Xubuntu (which inherit snap from the base distribut…
In the linked post they mention "ZFS Native Encryption", but (to save others the time I spent on it): Encrypted ZFS is not available in the installer. However, it will boot encrypted ZFS fine. If you boot the live image and modify a source file, you can install to an encrypted ZFS. I've documented what I had to do here: https://linsomniac.gitlab.io/post/2020-04-09-ubuntu-2004-enc...
Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…
Sorry I’m not adding anything to the conversation here, but have they removed that strange ‘swipe-up to login’ gesture at the start screen?
Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now. The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.…
Idk, since 10.04 I've appreciated that Ubuntu is as far as a mainstream Linux desktop distro as it gets and just works (I used to run various distros including RH/CentOS, Debian, Suse, Gentoo, and also FreeBSD). But I'm on the brink to leave (maybe towards Void Linux, Debian/Devuan, or back-to-Slackware) because the things I care about have atrophied (lightweight DE, real Unix environment) while crap (snap, systemd,…
Xfce is a nice alternative to GNOME 3 that reminds me a lot of GNOME 2.
Looking through the features Gnome 3.36 - X11 fractional scaling. I got all excited, because this means that now finally Ubuntu will be usable on my Lenovo X1E with High-DPI display. But then further down below: Fractional scaling does not work with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (bug 1870736, bug 1873403). OK, nevermind, back to Windows with WSL...
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> _"nah... I don't want any changes, I'd rather keep myself and the world vendorlocked into proprietary software"_ People don't have a problem changing if the change doesn't break their work(flows). The fact that Internet Explorer is pretty much dead proves it - everyone switched to Chrome although is different. MS Office document format support is simply not good enough on any alternative (of which Libre Office is t…
> MS Office document format support is simply not good enough on any alternative This is a key fault in your logic. You SHOULD NOT judge the alternative by how it supports the document format that is specifically created in such a way to block competition from effectively supporting it. The company that did it also corrupted the international standards organization to get it an official 'standard' status. But the tru…
It's great that it worked out for you, but that's just not the case in the most business environments I have been dealing with. When a person sends out a document to a customer, and it turns out that customer didn't see the content as intended, alternatives get deleted and MS Office gets reintroduced.
Just to be clear, I'm not a proponent of MS Office. As a matter of fact I run on Mac and Linux and don't have much touching points with Windows, but MS Office is simply a necessity in most business environments.