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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 KptMarchewa »

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 lost the Thinkpad display lottery with 1080p at 14' and it's one thing I'd want from macbook any moment.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by pram »

xolve wrote: post #111
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?

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

I’d assume that’s because of the novelty of it being a competitive desktop ARM processor. The processor listed isn’t much faster than the previous gen Ryzen, it’s unremarkable from an apple to apple comparison.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by isantop »

tekromancr wrote: post #40
tekromancr wrote: post #4

Things System 76 does: maintain their own os distro, desktop environment, coreboot fork, system firmware Things System 76 refuses to do: usbc PD I say this as a very happy S76 customer

I seem to be mistaken! Sounds like quite a few models DO have PD now. I guess I am just grumpy my Oryx pro 6 doesn't.

Hard to do USBPD with the Oryx because it's hard to deliver 200W over USBPD (Which has a maximum standardized power delivery of 100W)

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by isantop »

foxhop wrote: post #14
tekromancr wrote: post #4

Things System 76 does: maintain their own os distro, desktop environment, coreboot fork, system firmware Things System 76 refuses to do: usbc PD I say this as a very happy S76 customer

I love USBC power. Is there a good reason?

The laptop mentioned requires a 200W charger (dedicated GPU, high-end CPU). This is double what the USB PD specs allow.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by heftig »

superkuh wrote: post #82
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…

File picker loss of functionality is the fault of Gtk3 and Gtk4. It would still apply even in systems without GNOME at all. Maintaing a fork of Gtk3 and 4 with patches to restore 2010 era functionality would be difficult but not infeasible. Arch does some of it. I've looked at the code and it is quite a terrible mess. It's no two line patch to change settings anymore because everything gets reset multiple times in fu…

What is Arch doing?

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

arnaudsm wrote: post #90
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…

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...

I see you can link directly to their comparison tool[1]

1: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH...

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by JeremyNT »

s3tz wrote: post #102
toomanyducks wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a completely unnecessary extra action the completely breaks your flow.

I'm a GNOME user and almost never use its dock directly. I have my typical programs added as favorites on the dock and switch to them directly via keyboard with meta + 1 through meta + 9.

Seldom used applications don't make that cut, but they're... seldom used. I tend to switch to them using alt-tab rather than clicking through on the dock.

In general, I prefer using the keyboard, so I have never once wished that a dock was more prominent in GNOME. I'm glad it stays out of my way until I explicitly summon it with a keypress.

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