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Interesting. I have the complete opposite experience. HiDPI works great and consistently looks better on macOS than on Ubuntu, e.g.. I'd love to hear what your

by rawfan 5y ago

Interesting. I have the complete opposite experience. HiDPI works great and consistently looks better on macOS than on Ubuntu, e.g.. I'd love to hear what your DevOps issues are. I got an M1 laptop a few months ago and at that point everything just worked out-of-the-box. Ansible, Terraform, Docker.. no issues so far.

matwood 5y ago
>I'd love to hear what your DevOps issues are. Same. I've been using m1's since they came out and early on Terraform didn't work (had to wait on Go to support apple silicon), but that was over a year ago at this point. Now, everything works great... Maybe the OP relies on Docker?
- JamesonNetworks 5y ago
  Docker for Mac has been so bad for so long. I finally moved to running all docker images on a linux box and using syncthing to sync code changes. My battery thanks me.
- gillesjacobs 5y ago
  Yeah I rely on Docker. Anaconda gave a lot of issues too, but that is not my choice for python package mgmnt anyway. All issues are fixed with specifying Linux/amd64 as the build platform and only installing conda in containers. Installing conda locally is not something you should ever do in any case, it makes a mess of your home, shell profiles and environment variables. Still having OOM 'Killed' errors in builds that I should investigate. Don't know for sure if there are memory limits in default Docker settings on Macos, could be it. In any case, I should respec cleaner builds anyway because right now it's a mess.
kitsunesoba 5y ago
I’ve also had a terrible experience with DPI scaling under Linux. My Thinkpad Nano has a screen resolution that works best with its UI scaled to 150% or 175%. Windows does this pretty well, with mainly a tiny handful of old stuff where the dev flung a binary over the wall many moons ago and forgot about it not working right. macOS handles this scenario decently too, though at a slight performance hit since it renders at a higher resolution and then scales down. Linux on the other hand has been a mess. I’ve tried GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon on the latest Fedora both with X11 and Wayland (except for cinnamon, which is X11 only), and none of them get non-integer scaling 100% right across both the DE and all apps. This is the exacerbated by different UI toolkits having minds of their own and needing independent configuration, where on macOS and Windows they obey the system. In fact, in my experience Linux works best if you have a boring ultra common setup — Intel iGPU with Intel networking with a single normal DPI monitor. As soon as you start deviating from that, expect things to start getting quirky.

by rawfan 5y ago

matwood 5y ago

>I'd love to hear what your DevOps issues are. Same. I've been using m1's since they came out and early on Terraform didn't work (had to wait on Go to support apple silicon), but that was over a year ago at this point. Now, everything works great... Maybe the OP relies on Docker?

JamesonNetworks 5y ago
Docker for Mac has been so bad for so long. I finally moved to running all docker images on a linux box and using syncthing to sync code changes. My battery thanks me.
gillesjacobs 5y ago
Yeah I rely on Docker. Anaconda gave a lot of issues too, but that is not my choice for python package mgmnt anyway. All issues are fixed with specifying Linux/amd64 as the build platform and only installing conda in containers. Installing conda locally is not something you should ever do in any case, it makes a mess of your home, shell profiles and environment variables. Still having OOM 'Killed' errors in builds that I should investigate. Don't know for sure if there are memory limits in default Docker settings on Macos, could be it. In any case, I should respec cleaner builds anyway because right now it's a mess.

kitsunesoba 5y ago

I’ve also had a terrible experience with DPI scaling under Linux. My Thinkpad Nano has a screen resolution that works best with its UI scaled to 150% or 175%. Windows does this pretty well, with mainly a tiny handful of old stuff where the dev flung a binary over the wall many moons ago and forgot about it not working right. macOS handles this scenario decently too, though at a slight performance hit since it renders at a higher resolution and then scales down. Linux on the other hand has been a mess. I’ve tried GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon on the latest Fedora both with X11 and Wayland (except for cinnamon, which is X11 only), and none of them get non-integer scaling 100% right across both the DE and all apps. This is the exacerbated by different UI toolkits having minds of their own and needing independent configuration, where on macOS and Windows they obey the system. In fact, in my experience Linux works best if you have a boring ultra common setup — Intel iGPU with Intel networking with a single normal DPI monitor. As soon as you start deviating from that, expect things to start getting quirky.