matzipan

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by matzipan 9y ago
While what you're saying sounds nice, your theory has nothing to do with practice. In reality, the ultimate source of this problem is the mismatch in speed between silicon logic and silicon memory. This is why your CPU ends up doing al
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by matzipan 9y ago
This feels like a lot of work being taken for granted. That is why support services exist. You pay a fee and the developer agrees to fix things for you. Open-source doesn't have to be for free.
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by matzipan 10y ago
Found it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/hidpi-su...
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by matzipan 10y ago
I'm still young and naive :P
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by matzipan 10y ago
I'm part of the community. I have seen alot of work being put into making hidpi work properly. I can't find any changelog mentions though :( Here's a community post: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos&
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by matzipan 10y ago
Obviously, it won't. But it would at least free up some manpower.
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by matzipan 10y ago
Well, not all people have the expertise or willingness (in case of volunteers) to work on this. Switching to Rust would allow them to leverage somebody else's work. Also, GObject itself made a lot of sense in an era when C was dominant
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by matzipan 10y ago
Yeah. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854983
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by matzipan 10y ago
No, I'm talking about gdb support, for example. I'm talking for a testing framework (right now you have to write your own build process capable of bundling the unit tests with your source).
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by matzipan 10y ago
Slack is electron done right - it even has a background process which delivers notifications. But they generally integrate really badly into the UI.
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by matzipan 10y ago
The contributions actually increased. Which is why they kept it.
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by matzipan 10y ago
You clearly haven't tried neither elementary nor Linux in general. There are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use elementary just as well as there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use macOS. You're c
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by matzipan 10y ago
I think one needs to also highlight the differences. mac OS is built by one major player and they have a clear direction of where they want to take this. Linux, in general, is built by communities of people who may or may not have diverging
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by matzipan 10y ago
So they should disable writing "0" in the input box and require that you enter "nothing"?
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by matzipan 10y ago
Really? :P
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by matzipan 10y ago
Good luck porting the mac libraries to Linux [1] :P [1] https://www.darlinghq.org/project-status/
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by matzipan 10y ago
The elementary community would love feedback on how to solve pains with mac. There's a subreddit or you could post bug reports on launchpad.
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by matzipan 10y ago
I agree with the article. Vala is a wonderful language, but it doesn't have the necessary tooling built around it.
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by matzipan 10y ago
elementary should automatically handle your hidpi quite well.
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by matzipan 10y ago
Read my comment above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854556 )
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by matzipan 10y ago
You have valgrind and many other tools instead of "Instruments". The GNOME project itself [1] has a lot of projects which compete with what you linked. Sure, Apple has a few billion dollars to dump into development every year, so
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by matzipan 10y ago
It does seem nicer to ask after, but then again, 99% of us simply close the tab after the download starts. We just do it automatically.
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by matzipan 10y ago
Check my comment above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312 )
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by matzipan 10y ago
Well Geary (and the elementary fork Pantheon Mail) are quite good for basic use. There are still a few bugs and their codebases are quite hell to work with (see [1] for my review of them). This document motivates my little side project, but
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by matzipan 10y ago
Not much. Both System76 and Dell's Sputnik spend quite a bit of time getting good support for their laptops under Linux. I personally think XPS has a much better design for a laptop.
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by matzipan 10y ago
It's been linked many times around here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html I'm still seeing powersaving issues even on Haswell. I believe basic support for Skylake only shipped in Ubuntu LTS only recently, t
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by matzipan 10y ago
Here's a list to all the projects maintained by elementary [1]. Quite a few. What elementary gets from Ubuntu is the kernel, userland tools and package repositories but from the desktop environment up, it's different stuff (albeit
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by matzipan 10y ago
I don't know mac conventions as I generally don't use keys on my mac. But elementary certainly has a configurable keyboard shortcuts panel.
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by matzipan 10y ago
The version of Epiphany which has to ship with Ubuntu (because Ubuntu is only shipping GTK 3.18) is pretty outdated [1]. I have been trying to move away from Chrome to Epiphany slowly but was encountering quite a few issues which I reported
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by matzipan 10y ago
Unfortunately, Linux lacks in the creative market. There's no way this can change soon without support from big players, like, for example, Adobe.

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