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One word: energy! As we burned all hydrocarbons we eventually discovered the personal computer and the internet AFTER we decoupled our economy backing from har
by bullen 5y ago
One word: energy!
As we burned all hydrocarbons we eventually discovered the personal computer and the internet AFTER we decoupled our economy backing from hard assets.
Now that energy, which is just stored sunlight, is running out and so everything else will slow down and have to be optimized.
We are at peak EVERYTHING, both good and bad!
Personally I'm staying on HTTP/1.1, SMTP and DNS, OpenGL (ES) 3, SPI, JavaSE on server, C+ on client (C syntax with C++ compiler), vanilla HTML, .css, .js for GUIs for life.
Windows 7 is still the best Windows. Linux is still the worst desktop.
Hardware is NOT getting better, I'm staying on socket 1151 until they become too expensive to power!
Intel Atom as load balancer, Raspberry 2/4 as file/compute servers, Raspberry 4/Jetson Nano as desktop and Raspberry Pico as mobile communication is the only viable future.
Let's get busy and build a low energy future!
- mihaigalos 5y agoNot sure what you mean by the worst desktop. I guess you mean UI/UX which tbh, I stopped caring a long time ago. I'm using Linux as my daily driver, usually work from the commandline and have multiple screens which I can cycle through with a keyboard combination. This way, I'm at least 3x more productive (speed, efficiency, ease of use) than Windows. Most of the time, I'm not even using a mouse.
- bullen 5y agoI use TWM on Atom/NUC/Raspberry 4, and it works ok... BUT the GUI focus, copy/paste and /\ problems are troubling me... WHY? I said 2 years ago I would switch to the Raspberry 4 as my main driver, but it's still on my side monitor, with the keyboard on the side!!! I'm waiting for higher KWh prices... probably next winter I'll have to switch!
- mwcampbell 5y agoWhy twm? Have you considered using a modern but non-bloated Wayland compositor like sway, using applications that natively support Wayland where possible and Xwayland where needed? I imagine that would make much more efficient use of the GPU that the Raspberry Pi has always had.
- bullen 5y agoHm, I'm usually not a fan of using new stuff unless it has been stable/working/default for some years... last I heard of wayland was NOT good, but it was a couple of years back... The way you should use the GPU is with OpenGL, 2D can get along without hardware acceleration, I don't see how wayland can be better at using OpenGL as that is the application who calls the GPU directly without going through the window manager!?