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Is there any reason to prefer Darktile over Alacritty?

by gnull 5y ago

megous 5y ago
Nope. Both will probably fail when gl rendering is not available for whatever reason. Just tried to run alacritty: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4af49886c7c9854d.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4af49886c7c9854d.png Personally, I'd want something that keeps working even if I don't reboot immediately after a system update, especially for something as key as a terminal emulator.
- zamadatix 5y ago
  That'd be the fault of Nvidia proprietary drivers (which are regularly known to cause lot of annoying problems+issues like that across the board) as systems without a hardware GPU can still normally create OpenGL contexts. The day that driver mess is cleaned up a shit ton of problems will disappear overnight.
  - megous 5y ago
    Yes, I wish I didn't buy nvidia. Their stupid requirement to have exact same version for client/driver is so annoying. Not an option to buy anything else for a sane price at the moment sadly, due to crypto craze. ;)
  - deleted 5y ago
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- craftkiller 5y ago
  You can force alacritty to use a software renderer by setting the env variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Alacritty#Requires_hardware_supporting_GLSL_3.30 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Alacritty#Requires_hardware...
  - megous 5y ago
    It's not as simple: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4a76e64deddee2f5.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4a76e64deddee2f5.png
moondev 5y ago
Since darktile is written in go, it's easier to test drive and potentially package. go run github.com/liamg/darktile/cmd/darktile@latest