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by Crinus 7y ago
KDE is nice and all and certainly better than GNOME from a UX perspective (at least according to my preferences) but it always suffered from Qt: 1. Initially Qt1's license made a lot of developers to shun it (if that was warranted or n
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by Crinus 7y ago
There is nothing wrong with 7zip's UI (and a program cannot be only "perfect" or "garbage", there are in-between, e.g. "mediocre" or "good enough" or other things) but WinRAR's UX is simpl
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Many popular programs are now seeing continuous paid development by patronage including Godot, Krita, Blender, GIMP, and OBS. Godot=$10k/month (patreon) Krita=$2k/month (their donation page) Blender=€31k/month (their fun
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Indeed, for software of good quality, free software wins. What is good quality differs between people. Personally i consider good quality to be desktop software with a good and simple (but not patronizing) UX and responsive UI that doe
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by Crinus 7y ago
My guess is that it wasn't really a conspiracy but that most distro developers do not give a rats ass about good desktop experience, thus they simply package whatever those who do work on desktop stuff and get done with it. "Those
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by Crinus 7y ago
7zip from both a UX and feature perspective is awful compared to something like WinRAR, it is popular mainly because it provides good compression and is free, but beyond that it is eclipsed by WinRAR in almost every other front (outside of
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by Crinus 7y ago
Probably because the few people who want to use alternatives to Slack are spread among these four alternatives instead of using one and sticking with it. And honestly, of all the alternatives, IRC is by far the most popular one (and the oth
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Who cares. When the "new" tool is worse than the "old" tool, i care (and yes, the "new" tool can be worse - and often is - yet displace the "old" one, not because of its quality, but because of e
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by Crinus 7y ago
> integrates a web browser and JavaScript with Unity3D, so you can use the canvas api to draw images for use as 2D user interface overlays and 3D mesh textures in Unity. Great use of resources, you could also use ogv.js for animated part
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW i did almost all of my Flash development on OS X. It is kind of amusing to read that it was even faster on Windows (although TBH i do not remember any significant performance difference in the games i did between Windows, Linux and OS
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeap, this is why sometimes when i read some text, press press Space to scroll the page my brain has already started "reading" from the top of the page and then gets confused when the page has hijacked space and it didn't rea
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Which bit was fast? The performance. The comparison macspoofing made was with JavaScript+DOM, not with native applications. I wrote games in Flash and played around with JavaScript+Canvas back when HTML5 was still fresh and Flash was s
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by Crinus 7y ago
It might sound like i am trying to be a contrarian, but Java for me is a special case and actually i'd probably stick with Java 1.5 or even 1.4 which was the last Java that i liked (i always liked the idea of Java as a very simple OO l
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by Crinus 7y ago
So it isn't a case of something being impossible but more of a case that it needs workarounds to make things work with it?
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by Crinus 7y ago
What sort of features does a mail client need though? Up until recently i was using SquirrelMail and only stopped because my webhost removed it (likely because there hasn't been an official release for a few years now... which is weird
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, this allows to autoplay even if not muted :-P. https://jsmpeg.com/perf.html
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by Crinus 7y ago
You mean user engagement will improve, right? :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
Depends on how (and if) the font is hinted. The default Windows GUI font has good hinting and thus is mostly sharp (and even if it wasn't there are other Windows fonts that have good hinting and use the same metrics). Any program that
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by Crinus 7y ago
I have disabled antialiasing altogether on my computer (which sadly now can only be done via the registry, WTF Microsoft?) but several applications (thankfully it is mostly UWP crap, but it is also stuff like IE and the IE ActiveX control,
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by Crinus 7y ago
> rather than a practical solution. I have a very practical solution for you: bypassing the autoplay restriction for ads.
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is a technicality, users do not care about technicalities, they have their own expectations and if you are on -say- a stable branch with autoupdates enabled your expectation is that you'll get the latest version that everyone else
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by Crinus 8y ago
I don't know who is that, i'm not really following any Mac people, i speak from my personal experience as someone who used to be very into macOS for a while but lost interest due to the increasing instability and broken software e
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by Crinus 8y ago
People may say they love using Slack, but they certainly wont like their computers being slower and/or their laptop's batteries draining. And they wont blame Slack or any other Electron application for that, largely because they
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by Crinus 8y ago
> It's probably true that if you really need binaries built during the Clinton administration to work, the Mac isn't for you. Notice that i'm talking about macOS being unable to run applications released less than 10 years
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by Crinus 8y ago
I always saw these tons of little packages as a bad idea as they make package management (from the user's perspective) harder, they do not really provide any space benefit (code is small), if anything they make loading slower (i wrote
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by Crinus 8y ago
My personal arbitrary definition is something that is usable without noticeable lag on a Raspberry Pi 1.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Descriptive names are taken.
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by Crinus 8y ago
> I simply refuse to mess with Xorg config files Messing with Xorg config files is something you do not have to do since Xorg was forked from XFree86, especially when it comes to monitors. Personally the only time i had to do that was to
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by Crinus 8y ago
I'm talking about the current versions, not old stuff, i also had KDE 1 working on a 32MB machine. I do not expect current versions to be easy to run even in 32MB (although i've heard - but didn't verify - that Xorg can be co
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by Crinus 8y ago
Most people do not care about how something was made, but they do care if their computer feels sluggish, their hard disk fills up and - if they are using laptops - their battery drains fast.

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