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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by akvadrako »

pkulak wrote: post #173
867-5309 wrote: post #70

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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

4K at 14" is probably not a great idea because you'd need fractional scaling. I'm holding out for 13" 1440p, which is a perfect 2x.

I use 4K on 14". Windows defaults to 300% scaling so clearly the defaults agree with you. But 200% scaling is usable; things are a little small but the extra real estate is worth it.

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Post by akvadrako »

dTal wrote: post #329
powersnail wrote: post #224

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The difference is huge for me, especially for reading texts. The rending quality is night and day.

Between 1080 and WQHD, sure. But between WQHD and 4k?

Both are fine from a DPI standpoint, but some people prefer the size of 4k@2x to WQHD at 1x or 2x.

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Post by cortexio »

Man, i really wonder why linux desktop environments have to suck so hard (gachibass). They are all so slugish and just ugly, clunky and bad design. I had to try so many until i had something close to something workable. I ended up with xfce, but had to disable compositor and install compton as a replacement. Just all that, for just a plain desktop environment that feels snappy. But the design is still shit though. As for gnome3.. i cant remember, but i think it was slow as well, and im mainly talking about alt-tab. if an alt-tab takes more than 5ms, it's trash. Like, windows 7 & 10 are the only ones who did it correctly in my opinion.. but yeah it's windows >_< still, baffles me that such a low standard cant be reached by almost ALL linux distros.

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Post by sjwright »

devwastaken wrote: post #311
coldtea wrote: post #305

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OK, so is PassMark more accurate than Geekbench? (And, still, that's with M1 having 4 cores tied behind its back for better battery life).

Neither bench reflects real world performance. Run cinebench, 7zip, h265 encode, blender render, etc.

Unless your primary workload is media encoding or rendering in Blender, those benchmarks are just as artificial as the truly artificial ones.

Most people’s performance workload is dominated by media consumption—not media creation. But the latter sure does make for good benchmarks.

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Post by nix23 »

swebs wrote: post #327
nix23 wrote: post #126

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No we don't do that in Linux world, please place "metadata" where it belongs...the inode.

KDE does it. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/images/b/b9/Gloriouskdefilepi...

Sometimes i am astonished about the Asperger tendencies here on HN....it was a JOKE, goddam.

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Post by veddox »

llarsson wrote: post #48
ekiwi wrote: post #32

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If you hit the Windows key on Gnome 3, you can type the name of a program, file or system setting and it will generally find it.

That's not it. Unity let you find at you typed to get to menu options. So you did not have to care whether the item you wanted was under File, Edit, or whatever, you could just start typing "preferences" and it would let you find it and go to it with the keyboard. That was pretty good, actually.

That is the single feature I miss the most about Unity. Gnome's prodigal attitude to screen real estate is annoying (though the Ubuntu version is somewhat better), but being able to search menus makes a real usability difference. I miss it every time I use InkScape or QGIS or similar programs with five layers of voluminous menus...

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Post by aembleton »

khazhoux wrote: post #317
favadi wrote: post #243

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I don’t get the love for iTerm2. I tried it before and see nothing appealing for me over the built in Terminap.app. And it seems to be slower too. On Linux, I just use whatever ship with the distro Gnome Terminal, Konsole... and they work fine.

On iTerm2 my windows are full-screen, black background, zero border or window decorations. I cycle between windows with cmd-` it switches instantly from one full-screen terminal to the next. It's what to me a console should be. Every terminal app I've tried on Windows or Linux insists on having a goddamn window border. I don't want even a single pixel of border. And yes, this is enough to make me a die-hard iTerm2 us…

If you want to make it Full Screen with no menu or window decorations, then in Gnome you can press F11 in, then go to View > Untick Show Menubar

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Post by aembleton »

thepangolino wrote: post #26
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #19

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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?

https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud

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Post by notamy »

brianzelip wrote: post #325
skrtskrt wrote: post #159

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iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux? There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.

I switched from iTerm2 to Hyper, which has been great and is cross platform. https://hyper.is/

How is it with lots of text being displayed? VSC's terminal is unbearably laggy for me when there's more than like 10% of the terminal covered in text, is this similar?

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Post by gm2 »

aidenn0 wrote: post #51
thepangolino wrote: post #26

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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?

This is my biggest missing feature from the Mac. Do any of the major GUI toolkits for linux support this?

XFCE has the Whisker Menu which does exactly that.
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