really excited to hear that you guys are working on fractional scaling. can't wait to see it happen so I can install Fedora on my laptop again. keep up the good work.
Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
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Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#72I'm using Fedora again as my desktop after some years on OS X. Things that I'd like to see: * A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point * A better Gnome Calendar. I think this is coming in the next release. * A PDF viewer that supports highlighting.
> A PDF viewer that supports highlighting. Tried Okular? > A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point Switching to Mu4e was the best thing I ever did to my emails. If someone doesn't know/doesn't want to pick up Emacs then I'd recommend Mutt all the way.
> Tried Okular?
Not yet, but I might. I'm trying to stay on the GTK/Gnome side of things.
Re: the email client, I'm no longer an emacs user unfortunately :)
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#73My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
you mean the XPS 15 ? this is pretty much what you described and you can buy it right now. You missed on thing though - NVME SSD compatibility. Its the only innovation in hardware that can get you performance gains for the next couple of years.
I gave up the 2 ram slots in exchange for a single removable NVME SSD slot for the ultra thin XPS 13. The integrated graphics card is powerful enough to play Bioshock Infinite.
And it runs Fedora brilliantly
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#74My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x220/ Upd: this is a 12" laptop. However, they offered Libreboot X400 before, which is 14". You can still get one via https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-installation-service/
This computer looks like it comes from 90s.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#75I'd settle for better font rendering, and a better way to debug which extension causes Redshift to not work or makes the logout dialog take 20 seconds to show up (with the desktop frozen in the meantime). Extension debugging needs love.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#76This is incredible. I had written a comment on the original thread on why I had moved to fedora after 14 years of using Ubuntu and this post confirms that I made the right choice. For some unkNown reason, Fedora is considered "bleeding edge" and unstable..While Ubuntu is considered mainstream. The truth is that fedora is probably the most polished Linux distribution out there right now..Including a brilliant UI exper…
I can report my non-stop 21 years usage of redhat based distributions ( well, along other Unices ).
Never was I left down. Fedora from 24-25 version is so polished, I can't believe myself when all the hardware works just as expected and the screen is such a beauty.
Edit: I have to mention that I am also a diehard KDE fan. Plasma 5.8 is just amazing.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#77My advice: Instead of supporting a bunch of hardware poorly make one laptop like the macbook pro with: * 2 ram slots * 2 M.2 SSD slots * a decent kb * a decent touchpad * a decent screen * discrete graphics * good battery management (you can do this because it's only one) * thunderbolt 3 * at least 3 usb ports * no dvd * ONE TRRS audio port * ethernet * HDMI for legacy reasons forget about * thinnest * lightest * or…
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#78I'd settle for better font rendering, and a better way to debug which extension causes Redshift to not work or makes the logout dialog take 20 seconds to show up (with the desktop frozen in the meantime). Extension debugging needs love.
Try to install freetype 2.7. It's a bit of a hassle(you need to get the source rpm from fedora 26 and build it), but will improve text rendering a lot.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you misunderstood the scaling part. I'm scaling down from 4k to 1080p for my old monitors. The 4k screen is at its native resolution. Anything else would be sinful :)
4k at native (unless you're using a single, >30 inch display) is too small. I use two 4k, 28 inch monitors and everything is too small at native resolution. I ran in to a lot of issues doing the xrandr downscaling (my two displays would overlap), so I've just been using Windows partition since this is my gaming PC. My linux partition is Arch, I hope Gnome supports easy fractional scaling soon. Something similar to th…
4K native with the scaling factor cranked up to match.
Re: Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
#80I'm using Fedora again as my desktop after some years on OS X. Things that I'd like to see: * A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point * A better Gnome Calendar. I think this is coming in the next release. * A PDF viewer that supports highlighting.
Did you try Claws Mail for email? I have been using it for years and it is the best thing I ever used. Nothing comes close. There is also Sypheed, of which Claws is a fork. I consider both a 100 times better than Thunderbird.
I did but I think the setup for gmail didn't work very well and I just gave up.