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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux
- webdevver 1y ago[flagged]
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- DrillShopper 1y agoIt would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make this program useful
- DeepYogurt 1y agoYa. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.
- lmz 1y agoI wouldn't read too deeply into that. I'm pretty sure cpu-z bundles a driver that is unpacked and installed at runtime (search for 'cpuz sys')
- dmitrygr 1y ago$ man dmidecode
- preisschild 1y agoAt least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the "Start daemon" button.
- nateb2022 1y agoc.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki/daemon-purpose https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki... the daemon separates userspace from root domain, and ensures that the code running with root privileges is very small and easily auditable
- __turbobrew__ 1y agoMaybe I am dumb, but why does it have to be a daemon? Why not have the user process fork off the privileged binary to collect data and return the results through stdout?
- unaindz 1y agoForking a process is not free and starting one every hundred of a millisecond* seems very expensive. *I'm do not know which frequency it updates the data but it's usually 1 sec to 0.1 sec.
- whalesalad 1y agoI use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon does.
- mmh0000 1y ago[flagged]
- jcelerier 1y agoWhen I type all that (if I type them correctly, I do a lot of mistakes so I need simple icons to click sometimes), it really doesn't look like CPU-Z in my terminal, I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
- Brian_K_White 1y agoThose commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout. And I don't think they are even claiming that a graphical presentation of the same info is necessarily wrong or pointless, they are simply saying, that's a lot of c++ for merely wrapping the text in some gui widgets. It's a fair observation. I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. Maybe there's more to it and it wouldn't be so simple, but that is what it looks like.
- jcelerier 1y ago> Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout. but that's the thing, the target audience for "CPU-Z for Linux" is not people who want the information (because if you do it's of course trivial to google and find out about /proc/cpuinfo), it's people who want to use a software which is as close as possible to the original CPU-Z (so HTML layout definitely does not cut it either). > I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. considering that the source code assumes that dmidecode won't be present (it embeds it) I doubt you'd reimplement the whole dmidecode in only a few k lines of shell. And that's just a small part of what CPU-X does.
- petabyt 1y agoThis tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
- kcb 1y agoThe tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat similar to hwinfo64 on windows.
- throw123xz 1y agoVery nice. On a side note, and not wanting to criticize the people that spend their time working on something like this, that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background, the padding around the text inside boxes... I feel bad saying this when it's a free tool, but it's a shame that open source projects struggle so much with UI stuff.
- whalesalad 1y agothis is what it looks like for me, https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png
- wpm 1y agoThe ncurses CLI version looks great.
- amlib 1y agoMacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux. Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made regarding UI/UX best practices and GNOME even has a great HIG that they follow strictly on their stuff, you can't even say that regarding Microsoft own software anymore.
- aforty 1y agoNice but does it really have to look like the Windows version? Can’t we imagine and have better things?
- M95D 1y agoBut this is one of the better things!
- xet7 1y agoSimilar is I-Nex, made with Gambas. https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/i-nex https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/i-nex https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html
- unixhero 1y agoIt looks great, but on Linux I got used to cat /proc/cpuinfo