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jcelerier 1y ago
When 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 ago
  Those 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 ago
This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
- Brian_K_White 1y ago
  There are similar commands for those. It is exactly a bit more than a front end.
izacus 1y ago
This is absolutely "Who cares about Dropbox, just use rsync!" level of silly and lazy HN answer :D
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tomhow 1y ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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When 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 ago
Those 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 ago

This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.

Brian_K_White 1y ago
There are similar commands for those. It is exactly a bit more than a front end.

izacus 1y ago

This is absolutely "Who cares about Dropbox, just use rsync!" level of silly and lazy HN answer :D

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tomhow 1y ago

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html