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Honest question, why is it that whenever any party tries making a new DE/WM it always turns out to be a GNOME derivative? Unity, Cinnamon, Budgie, Pantheon, MATE.. and now COSMIC. Why not choose something else like KDE or XFCE to fork?
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Apart from CPU these laptops look and feel decade old. Why those companies don't even try?
What do you mean?
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Cinnamon is brilliant, it’s been my main choice since I moved from XFCE, it’s a modern version of the classic desktop. For me it’s more serviceable than anything else but as always ymmv but as a developer desktop that I do all my computing on Fedora Cinnamon is damn close to perfect, there is little I can think of to improve it.
I Use Cinnamon on Fedora as well. I agree with you serviceable is a good way to describe it. It is no frills and does what I want.
It's really excellent if you want your desktop to be..a desktop.
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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…
I've recently switched from my usual MBP upgrade to System 76 (Oryx Pro). While yes, Apple's walled garden does feel like a Rolls Royce compared to anything, the price tag difference this time was just way too step for me to keep buying a new Mac: It was basically 2x or more for roughly similar hardware, if not slightly worse on the MBP side. Overall, using Pop_OS! with its specialized GNOME3 setup has been a bliss,…
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 Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.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 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…
Wonder if the file picker will have image thumbnails.
No we don't do that in Linux world, please place "metadata" where it belongs...the inode.
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at 14" is the difference even distinguishable? I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and retina on screens that small
The difference is huge for me, especially for reading texts. The rending quality is night and day.
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2x scaling at 4k is comfortable and crisply rendered fonts are a MUST. My eyes are far more fatigued at the end of the day if font rendering isn't crystal clear. Other resolutions require non-integer scaling and my experience with that has been... not great.
I am in the exact same boat, 2x scaling at 4k. I am young but I wear contacts that are not an exact perfect prescription due to the limitations of contacts. But people will swear up and down to me that there is no way I could possibly tell the difference between screens. You can literally see individual pixels on a 1080p screen! I am on Macbooks, but I want to switch to something with Linux so I am waiting for the ge…
Yes, they are needing for to change name, however. "Pop_OS!" is very a stupid name, no low hyphen "_" charactir or exclimation in name is good. Only "Pop OS" is good.
