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Splitscrean in Ubuntu is actually quite easy with Nvidia's driver package. I don't know what kind of granular access control Window's 7 has, but I can't imagin

by tsally 17y ago

Splitscrean in Ubuntu is actually quite easy with Nvidia's driver package. I don't know what kind of granular access control Window's 7 has, but I can't imagine it's more granular than the functionality Unix can provide through groups. There are also several terminal emulators that easily match Powershell. The only thing Windows has going for it is proper DPI scaling for all apps. Everything else is just Windows playing catchup with technologies that have been deployed on Unix systems for years. Also realize that half of the features you mention have to do with driver support, and nothing with the actual engineering of the OS. Just becuase Microsoft can use its clout to force vendors to write dirvers for its OS doesn't say anything about the OS itself.

nailer 17y ago
Unix apps use userhelper symlinks and pam service files (which may invoke group memberships) as equivalent to Windows UAC. Userhelper (or gksudo instead) is either off or on. There is no 'on for particularly sensitive operations, off for others' levels per Windows 7. Also no Unix has a shell with object pipelining. Ie, you can run 'ps | where starttime < 2 hours' on Unix, you'd need to screenscrape using regexs (ie, sed / awk / etc). Powershell provides a separation between presentation and data that's quite refreshing. There are nix equivalents of this concept, they they're unstable and have very few commands available. There is not a single driver on Unix, proprietary or OSS, that provides proper perfectly crisp DPI scaling for all applications in X. Nor do I believe this would be handled at the driver layer, but more the GTK (or QT etc) layer as it is for MFC in Windows. Neither granular access control, object pipelining, or application DPI scaling are driver related.
- nailer 17y ago
  Also, now I've worked out what you meant: win left and win right are window management shortcuts to maximise vertically and size to 50% horizonally. Nothing to do with multihead. It's likely one of the less common window managers implements something similar, but GNOME, XFCE and KDE do not (and to use those other window managers, you'd lose support for freedesktop.org shortcut files and have to recreate your menus).

by tsally 17y ago

nailer 17y ago

Unix apps use userhelper symlinks and pam service files (which may invoke group memberships) as equivalent to Windows UAC. Userhelper (or gksudo instead) is either off or on. There is no 'on for particularly sensitive operations, off for others' levels per Windows 7. Also no Unix has a shell with object pipelining. Ie, you can run 'ps | where starttime < 2 hours' on Unix, you'd need to screenscrape using regexs (ie, sed / awk / etc). Powershell provides a separation between presentation and data that's quite refreshing. There are nix equivalents of this concept, they they're unstable and have very few commands available. There is not a single driver on Unix, proprietary or OSS, that provides proper perfectly crisp DPI scaling for all applications in X. Nor do I believe this would be handled at the driver layer, but more the GTK (or QT etc) layer as it is for MFC in Windows. Neither granular access control, object pipelining, or application DPI scaling are driver related.

nailer 17y ago
Also, now I've worked out what you meant: win left and win right are window management shortcuts to maximise vertically and size to 50% horizonally. Nothing to do with multihead. It's likely one of the less common window managers implements something similar, but GNOME, XFCE and KDE do not (and to use those other window managers, you'd lose support for freedesktop.org shortcut files and have to recreate your menus).