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Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by civodul »

rendaw wrote: post #126
bheadmaster wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is inspired by Nix, but with a few key differences: - it is developed under the flag of the GNU Project, so you can expect the same standards of quality of both code and documentation as the rest of the GNU Project - it uses GNU Guile as the main language of the system instead of Nix, which (allegedly) allows you to extend or modify the behavior of the whole system - it uses GNU Shepherd as the service manager ins…

- All issue tracking and discussion happens on a mailing list/with custom tooling Also IIRC Shepherd was a simple 1-level service manager like runit. Is that correct? I played around with it for a while and came to the conclusion that it couldn't represent a service graph.

Shepherd takes a service graph as input. The `herd graph` command gives a GraphViz representation of that graph: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Jump-...

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by jckahn »

jacek wrote: post #32
jckahn wrote: post #5

My kingdom for Wayland fractional scaling that doesn’t make my apps blurry. It makes the feature a complete nonstarter for me.

I use KDE Plasma 5.27 (6 with many improvements is around the corner) on Wayland and fractional scaling is handled very well, nothing is blurry, no hacks required. If KDE recognizes an app that is not Wayland compatible (like most Electron apps), it will just run it in X11 mode (there's a setting for that, enabled by default). See the screenshot of my settings: https://imgur.com/a/VQHD5vT

I’ve heard that the situation is better on KDE, but for better or worse I’m a GNOME user. I probably should have specified that!

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by enriquto »

seabrookmx wrote: post #160
jackdaniel wrote: post #14

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Not everything is a bitmap. Ordinary drawing operations operate on coordinates, so fractional scaling should not lead to any blur (although may miss some pixel-perfect designs). In other words vectors may be scaled with little precision loss, or they may be scaled naively (render to bitmap and then scale the bitmap).

This. People seem to forget that you can zoom to 125% in your browser without blur, since the UI elements on the web are vector-based.

There's nothing special about the browser. Bitmap images are blurred by fractional scaling. That is inevitable.

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by jckahn »

pxc wrote: post #134
jckahn wrote: post #5

My kingdom for Wayland fractional scaling that doesn’t make my apps blurry. It makes the feature a complete nonstarter for me.

If you've got a whole kingdom on offer, you can bite the bullet and buy monitors that all have the same DPI. It's painful, but it's what I've done.

Not for my Framework 13 laptop. There’s only one screen resolution option. Even when I don’t have it plugged into my 4K external monitor, Wayland’s fractional scaling looks atrocious on Ubuntu 22.04.

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by hollerith »

jckahn wrote: post #192
jacek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use KDE Plasma 5.27 (6 with many improvements is around the corner) on Wayland and fractional scaling is handled very well, nothing is blurry, no hacks required. If KDE recognizes an app that is not Wayland compatible (like most Electron apps), it will just run it in X11 mode (there's a setting for that, enabled by default). See the screenshot of my settings: https://imgur.com/a/VQHD5vT

I’ve heard that the situation is better on KDE, but for better or worse I’m a GNOME user. I probably should have specified that!

I'm using Wayland and Gnome set to a fractional scaling factor to write this, and none of the apps I use regularly are blurry although I have to pass command-line arguments to Chrome and had to compile Emacs from source code to achieve that.

In fact, none of them were blurry 3 years ago.

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by Tmpod »

fransje26 wrote: post #175
rowanG077 wrote: post #165

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I haven't ever had a laptop USB ports last more then 3 years. In fact my last laptop, an XPS 13, had failing USB-C ports within 1.5 years. I admit I probably connect an USB device 5-10 times per day.

Use a cheap dock to plug/unplug your devices into 5-10 times per day, and change that when the USB port fails?

That's actually pretty smart hehe You fatigue the cheap hub instead of the expensive laptop port.

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by seabrookmx »

enriquto wrote: post #193
seabrookmx wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. People seem to forget that you can zoom to 125% in your browser without blur, since the UI elements on the web are vector-based.

There's nothing special about the browser. Bitmap images are blurred by fractional scaling. That is inevitable.

Yes but the fonts, boxes and lines are all fine. And on the web the image issue is usually resolved by starting hi res to begin with and sampling down not up.

When people complain about desktop apps not scaling they aren't complaining about the odd icon, it's the whole app looking like a smeary mess because it's not using vector based graphics. Fronts, grid lines etc. become blurry.

Re: Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

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Post by jamesbfb »

Tmpod wrote: post #158
jamesbfb wrote: post #151

My work laptop just rolled over 3 years which means it’s new laptop time. After spending some time convincing the higher ups at work, I have a new Framework 13 coming my way (and not HP whateverbook). I don’t think I’ve been this excited for a bit of hardware in a long time.

Unless the device is malfunctioning or otherwise damaged in a meaningful way, I don't see why it would be time for new a laptop, after only 3 years. I bought mine with the prospect of it lasting at least 6 years (and it's going strong 2/3 in already), but I don't plan on replacing it unless it breaks down or prevents me from working on my stuff for other reasons. Anyway, good choice on the new laptop. My next device…

This is a fair call, and normally I would run my laptop into the ground, but my HP Elite Book has this habit of thinking it’s still charging when it’s not. The only way around this is to let it drain to 0% battery and all would be good for another few weeks. Luckily all I need to do is let PyCharm index a project and it’ll drain to 0% within an hour.
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