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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by dahfizz »

akvadrako wrote: post #146
dahfizz wrote: post #89

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> 4K is great because it is a factor 2 compared to 1080p. I strongly disagree. QHD is perfect for me, because everything renders natively and looks beautiful. 4K without scaling is unusable, and 4K scaled up is just 1080p - You lose all the screen real estate you paid for.

You're missing the whole point of 4K at 14". Everyone uses it scaled but there is more detail, most importantly with fonts. You don't need any stupid sub-pixel rendering stuff.

Or, you can have a 1440p and get more detail and more screen real estate :)

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by kaba0 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #139
toomanyducks wrote: post #92

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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.

I love the hot corner. In some distributions this behaviour is disabled and I always turn it back on to the point that I automatically make the gesture on other operating systems as well. When I'm browsing on my laptop, I often end up with my finger on the touchpad. A quick swipe to the top left is quicker than moving my hand to the super key. On desktop, a low-precision swing of the mouse is also quicker than moving…

I find the new thee-finger swipe really cool and intuitive.

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Post by RMPR »

ndesaulniers wrote: post #318
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.

Most terminal emulators are missing support for splits; moving from iTerm2 was painful for me. Been using terminator and kitty, but I still miss iTerm2 5 years later.

Been using a WM and Alacritty for quite some time now, but iirc Tilix supports splits.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by akvadrako »

dahfizz wrote: post #351
akvadrako wrote: post #146

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You're missing the whole point of 4K at 14". Everyone uses it scaled but there is more detail, most importantly with fonts. You don't need any stupid sub-pixel rendering stuff.

Or, you can have a 1440p and get more detail and more screen real estate :)

UI elements at 1440p/1x/14" is too small for my taste.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by skohan »

jolux wrote: post #275
commoner wrote: post #232

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They're using PassMark instead of Geekbench. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH... Apple M1 - CPU Mark: 14,872 / Single thread: 3,630 AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U - CPU Mark: 20,659 / Single thread: 3,237 The AMD is 38.9% faster on the multi-core benchmark, and 10.8% slower on the single-core benchmark.

That's not really surprising, is it? The M1's eight cores are in a big.LITTLE configuration, half of them are not as powerful as the other half.

Also the Ryzen has hyperthreading where M1 doesn’t no?

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by kaba0 »

dguaraglia wrote: post #103
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #15

When Ubuntu dropped the hammer on Gnome2, I saw Unity desktop and was kinda... ewwww. And next I have installed Gnome 3. After 15 minutes with it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad , so I switched to it. In the following years Unity kinda grew on me, so I'm sad that it was axed and now everyone use this Gnome3 abomination. It is not as bad as it was five years before, but loss of top menu and general prefe…

Maybe join us Plasma users in the dark side. Honestly, it's pretty sweet and you can configure it to look and behave just the way you want it.

If only their Wayland implementation would be a bit more stable.

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Post by pmontra »

nikodunk wrote: post #221
pmontra wrote: post #109

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I'm using a dozen extensions to make Gnome 3 behave like Gnome 2 as much as I can. No animations, no menu on top, no top bar, task bar at the bottom, no dock, no activities, one virtual desktop per project. That was impossible with Unity.

Why don’t you use Gnome Classic out of curiosity?

I did use Gnome Fallback (Flashback?) until Gnome Shell had all the extensikns I needed and got rid of some bugs. Gnome Fallback was almost abandonware by the time I switched. It started to develop new glitches as the world around it moved on.

Is Gnome Classic the other option I have at login on Ubjntu 20.04? I gave it a try one year ago. Either it didn't work or wasn't the desktop I was looking for. I prefer my custom desktop. Of course nobody can develop one system that suits the tastes of every single person. The important thing to do is to leave enough freedom to make people customize their systems.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by pmontra »

cglong wrote: post #276
pmontra wrote: post #109

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I'm using a dozen extensions to make Gnome 3 behave like Gnome 2 as much as I can. No animations, no menu on top, no top bar, task bar at the bottom, no dock, no activities, one virtual desktop per project. That was impossible with Unity.

Have you tried MATE? I haven't, but I believe it's a modernized fork of GNOME 2.

I never managed to install its desktop on Ubuntu. Anyway I'd have to customize it too. I never liked desktops with a top bar, since the very first Mac. I couldn't get rid of it on Unity so I never used Unity (same for Macs.)
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