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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by xolve »

pram wrote: post #97
arnaudsm wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note the latest AMD 5850U chip is 40% faster [1] than the M1 for the same wattage! It really deserves more media exposure than the M1 which has the only merit of beating Intel. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+PRO+585...

The M1 is the entry level processor, and is still beating everything in single thread performance. What merits the media exposure?

M1 being called a new era of CPU architecture, AMD really deserves a great applause here for being there as well.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by turbinerneiter »

867-5309 wrote: post #70
varispeed wrote: post #34

I wish they had a laptop with a latest and top AMD, 14" 4K IPS matte panel, programmers friendly keyboard (pg up/down home end on dedicated keys at least), expandable RAM and nvme drive, silent fans and metal chassis and a Linux support. Less important physical camera and wi-fi cut off switch. If there was an ARM chip with comparable performance to M1 I would consider it too if it was running Linux. After watching th…

4K on a 14".. what is the use case for that? unless you have some hybrid long-short sightedness (d)efficiency, use your laptop as a chesttop, or want quadruple the pixels for half the battery life I really can't see any benefit

I really try to avoid looking at higher res screens too much. I like the lower price and better battery life of the HD screens and they look fine to me, but I think once you really try the higher res it will ruin the lower res for you.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by pram »

whycombagator wrote: post #107
pram wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The M1 is the entry level processor, and is still beating everything in single thread performance. What merits the media exposure?

Non-Apple TSMC 7nm and 40% faster at the same wattage (assuming GP is correct) compared to M1 seem like valid reasons for media exposure to me

It’s marginally faster than its predecessor.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by HorkHunter »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #78

I wish Ubuntu would maintain a gnome3+ fork like that, with top menu and reasonable file picker, or partner-up with System76. Not because I can't use another distro, but because I think a well-tested default target desktop distro is important and helping the community. I'm still on Ubuntu 20.04 because I need third-party based stuff to run, such as Chromium and Electron-based apps such as Skype and Teams (which howev…

KDE really is the unsung hero of the Linux community

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by lbussell »

acdha wrote: post #83
867-5309 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4K on a 14".. what is the use case for that? unless you have some hybrid long-short sightedness (d)efficiency, use your laptop as a chesttop, or want quadruple the pixels for half the battery life I really can't see any benefit

Use a Mac with a Retina display for a week and see whether you don't notice a difference — and it's certainly nowhere near half the battery life. Everyone I know who's done this has never wanted to go back.

Well, the 13 inch Macbook Pro only has a QHD screen (2560x1600) at 227 PPI. A 14 inch screen at QHD would still be 210 DPI. A 4K (3840x2160) display at 14 inches is 315 PPI.

I have used retina Macbook screens for extended periods of time and increasing the DPI seems like overkill to me.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by KptMarchewa »

pram wrote: post #97
arnaudsm wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note the latest AMD 5850U chip is 40% faster [1] than the M1 for the same wattage! It really deserves more media exposure than the M1 which has the only merit of beating Intel. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+PRO+585...

The M1 is the entry level processor, and is still beating everything in single thread performance. What merits the media exposure?

M1 has little-big architecture with 4 fast and 4 slow cores, while Ryzen has 8 equivalent cores.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by arnaudsm »

pram wrote: post #97
arnaudsm wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note the latest AMD 5850U chip is 40% faster [1] than the M1 for the same wattage! It really deserves more media exposure than the M1 which has the only merit of beating Intel. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+PRO+585...

The M1 is the entry level processor, and is still beating everything in single thread performance. What merits the media exposure?

The M1 and 5850U are in the same laptop price range. But I agree on the single-thread, it's indeed 12% faster.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by turbinerneiter »

toomanyducks wrote: post #92
silisili wrote: post #59

Nice to see! And glad they are...gasp...listening to people. The Gnome devs could learn a lot from that approach. The most popular distros all include a dock. And yet with Gnome 40, they not only refused to add a dock, they moved what gimped dock they had to the bottom of the screen. But you can't see it until you hit the top left corner. I wish I was making that up. (keyboard shortcuts aside, in fairness) Rant aside…

To be pedantic, you can see the dash/dock when you hit the super key, I don't believe anyone actually uses the hot corner. Also to be pedantic, there are plenty of desktops that don't use a dock, in the form of most window managers. I'm currently running opnebox with no dock and it's totally fine, though the approach is better suited to tiling window managers.

Funny, the hot corner is my favourite thing in Gnome.

I like the dock on the left of my screen and I'm happy that there is ways so everyone can customize this the way they want.

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