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Interesting, the linux desktop landscape has moved on the opposite direction. Still has a long way to go but has been improving consistently. I often see window
by marcodiego 5y ago
Interesting, the linux desktop landscape has moved on the opposite direction. Still has a long way to go but has been improving consistently. I often see windows users using aberrations to read PDF's with ads and trying to persuade the user to join an online service like foxit or adobe. On linux, evince has gained very discrete features over the years but works very very well, actually better than before; it probably eats a bit more memory because of the newest libs. Okular is on the same direction but is more feature rich, not surprising considering the KDE heritage.
The pdf reader scenario is just one of many cases the desktop on other OS's became a vector to spread ads while the linux has only improved over time. Considering the popularity of android, it has the same problems as windows in terms of apps being just a way to spreads ads; fortunately f-droid saves me from these.
So, I hope things will continue to improve on the FLOSS desktop. Hope it brings more users too.
With regard to the electron apps... With 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, I really don't care that much about the performance loss. It feels a bit inconsistent sometimes, but I like to know that I'm using the same app as my colleagues on other OS's.
- rayiner 5y agoYeah, the latest Fedora is getting pretty nice between Gnome and Wayland. What’s shocking to me is how bad first party software is getting. Acrobat DC kills the battery on my MBP doing, among other things, constantly running some cloud updater thing. It’s worse at browsing PDFs than a decade ago. Same thing for Outlook. They’ve started integrating a bunch of web technologies into it. It actually has less features now than before (tasks and notes redirect you to the website). And I don’t just mean that the latest version is slower on older hardware. It’s vastly slower on current hardware than the old versions were on the hardware that was contemporary at the time. My work machine is a ThinkPad i7 that boosts to 4.2 GHz. Just hitting Win-Right to snap Outlook to one half of the screen causes it to visibly spasm.
- convolvatron 5y agodoes linux have a reasonable replacement for xfig yet?
- marcodiego 5y agoLast time I tried xfig was more than a decade ago. I don't do much technical drawing, my needs have been fully covered by Inkscape. Just apt-get installed xfig. Still works pretty well.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoCan use Sumatra PDF on Windows.