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“Comfort food”. That’s so funny. I still use motif window manager with steelblue4 desktop and wheat xterm background since aix into Linux. That was my first def

“Comfort food”. That’s so funny. I still use motif window manager with steelblue4 desktop and wheat xterm background since aix into Linux. That was my first default in 1989 college and nothing has improved since. (Gnome, kde and the like make me want to upchuck).

CorpOverreach 2y ago
My "comfort food" in this article is the realization that no matter how big, how advanced a team can be -- we all make (and ship) really dumb changes to production. A bolted-on wrapper if() statement that spans a bit too far is classic.
90s_dev 2y ago
I have a certain nostalgia for bb4win, which I learned about during college, and was my first introduction to linux. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
ryao 2y ago
What will you do when you want to use a 4K monitor? This is not to be dismissive. I am genuinely curious if HiDPI works on motif.
- suyula 2y ago
  I can't speak for Motif but Fluxbox works fine on my 4K monitor
- tedunangst 2y ago
  You would set an appropriate size in .Xresources or somesuch.
- hulitu 2y ago
  > What will you do when you want to use a 4K monitor? This is not to be dismissive. I am genuinely curious if HiDPI works on motif. Yes, xrandr -scale. Works fine for everything. Even better than Windows (which, for some reason, only scales some programs, not all)
kirenida 2y ago
"Nothing has improved since". That's so funny.
- toast0 2y ago
  What's the biggest thing that's improved? We have 4x the pixels, so we spend 4x the rendering time to draw everything with 4x as many pixels, when it works, and complain when it doesn't. Would have been easier to stick with the pixel density we had. Oh, and we have to wait a frame to see everything because of compositing that I still don't quite understand what it's supposed to do? Something something backing store?
flomo 2y ago
You just have awful taste, but so do a lot of my friends. :)

CorpOverreach 2y ago

My "comfort food" in this article is the realization that no matter how big, how advanced a team can be -- we all make (and ship) really dumb changes to production. A bolted-on wrapper if() statement that spans a bit too far is classic.

90s_dev 2y ago

I have a certain nostalgia for bb4win, which I learned about during college, and was my first introduction to linux. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

ryao 2y ago

What will you do when you want to use a 4K monitor? This is not to be dismissive. I am genuinely curious if HiDPI works on motif.

suyula 2y ago
I can't speak for Motif but Fluxbox works fine on my 4K monitor
tedunangst 2y ago
You would set an appropriate size in .Xresources or somesuch.
hulitu 2y ago
> What will you do when you want to use a 4K monitor? This is not to be dismissive. I am genuinely curious if HiDPI works on motif. Yes, xrandr -scale. Works fine for everything. Even better than Windows (which, for some reason, only scales some programs, not all)

kirenida 2y ago

"Nothing has improved since". That's so funny.

toast0 2y ago
What's the biggest thing that's improved? We have 4x the pixels, so we spend 4x the rendering time to draw everything with 4x as many pixels, when it works, and complain when it doesn't. Would have been easier to stick with the pixel density we had. Oh, and we have to wait a frame to see everything because of compositing that I still don't quite understand what it's supposed to do? Something something backing store?

flomo 2y ago

You just have awful taste, but so do a lot of my friends. :)