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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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.

By that token, the M1 wasn't a big deal.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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…

Yes. That would be great. The classic thinkpads had an awesome keyboard and physical Wi-Fi and mic switches. That with modern cpu would be perfect.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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

I recently bought a lenovo ideapad (ultrabook form factor) for under $900USD with a 5700u 16GB ram 512 nvme https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH... I'd say AMD is really blowing the M1 laptops out of the water at half the price and more performance.

I recently bought a Lenovo Legion 5 (4800H, 512GB, 16GB, 1660ti) for around $1200 after checking the 4700u ideapad. This was before the Ryzen 5000 series launch, so I suppose the Legion 5 is around $900 mark these days.

Many OEMs don't really give a good thermal headroom for the AMD processors, and only Lenovo seems to have done it right.

Lenovo's stock management sucks though. There were no stock for many days, and had to go unorthodox methods to get my hands on a unit.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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…

I mostly like Gnome. I have been using it for years. But the development team of Gnome is so closed minded that it makes my head hurt.

I asked on the bug tracker if Evince could have a tabs feature, so I can have 10 pdfs open in one Evince window. They asked me to cite a usability study showing that it would objectively improve user experience.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Wonder if the file picker will have image thumbnails.

current pop_os has image 'previews' in a sidebar as you select images, which isn't the same as a thumbnail but accomplishes much the same purpose

That’s the same as stock GNOME and is terrible UX.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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…

My hp omen is pretty bad ass, check them out - has most of all that - no metal case though sadly..

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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...

> Note the latest AMD 5850U chip is...

Can you buy one today other than the HP EliteBook 845 G8, which starts over $2300? Because you can buy M1 laptops yesterday for less than half that and I can't find any other 5800U series laptops for sale.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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post #97

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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.

> The M1 and 5850U are in the same laptop price range.

Where? The only 5850U laptop I can find is the HP EliteBook 845 G8, and that starts at over $2300 for a 5850U model.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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The best thing about Unity is that now it will never change for better or worse and still works with Ubuntu 20.04. It's fairly minimalist and frozen in stasis like I wish Apple had done with the SnowLeopard UI.

The only thing I liked about unity was the HUD that allowed you to search through application menus by typing the setting you were looking for. Do you know if there’s anything offering that functionality for Gnome3?

Not for GNOME 3 but MATE has a Heads-Up Display https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud
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