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by TingPing 3y ago
You can bypass the TPM requirement and it works fine. Of course who knows about future updates.
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by TingPing 3y ago
VNC is built in to GNOME. You just enable it in the control panel. It certainly isn’t RDP though.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Fedora updates the kernel mid-cycle so could be weeks to months depending on various factors. Mesa versions would be 6 months usually though.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Depends on your goal. Linux can be a project’s primary platform, or you can do a native UI on each platform.
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by TingPing 3y ago
pygobject is already packaged there.
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by TingPing 3y ago
It isn’t any language. It is the GObject Introspection data formatted as pseudo code similar to Vala.
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by TingPing 3y ago
GTK4 is much more performant on macOS in general.
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by TingPing 3y ago
The biggest changes are to rendering. GTK 1-3 used Cairo to do CPU rendering. It is slow and incapable of modern rendering features. GTK4 makes good use of the GPU with OpenGL (and kinda Vulkan). It has been a huge win for performance impro
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by TingPing 3y ago
GTK4 has caused a burst of many new applications. It has been good for the community.
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by TingPing 3y ago
More new GTK4 applications have been made in the past year than GTK3 in the previous 5 years. It is a big success.
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by TingPing 3y ago
GTK4 got a massive macOS rewrite and is in the best position it has ever been. It has no big users yet and could use some contributions though to quickly catch regressions.
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by TingPing 3y ago
That is nonsense, the toolkit is like a million lines of code, constantly falling further behind. GTK2 doesn’t support a modern Linux machine well (Wayland, hidpi, GPU rendering).
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by TingPing 3y ago
It isn’t useful for what people want.
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by TingPing 3y ago
The new SVG renderer in WebKit makes it the fastest of the 3. Not yet finished though.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Smart cars are no longer sold in the US. In general options are limited. Previously compact cars like the Civic are now midsize. And even then they produce them in low volumes so they are always sold with a markup.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Of course it still is… smaller cars, smaller batteries, better all around.
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by TingPing 3y ago
The law is from the 70s, but reaffirmed and expanded https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_econo...
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by TingPing 3y ago
A core redesign of GTK2->3->4 was moving from a model built around X11/xlib to one built around Wayland. GtkStatusIcon only functioned correctly on one backend, X11. It was very poorly supported on win32 and macOS. Other clear ex
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by TingPing 3y ago
GTK is maintained by 2-5 people. They cannot maintain every API forever. win32 is also a terrible example of good API, just stable.
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by TingPing 3y ago
GNOME has developed it for decades. They broke API twice. Fewer times than Qt.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Glade can’t render both GTK3 and GTK4 in the same process and wasn’t actively maintained. Cambalanche was a replacement supporting both.
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by TingPing 3y ago
That just isn’t true, you clearly haven’t used GTK. FLTK has never done core redesigns like GTK.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Touch, animations, styling, portability, rendering performance, cleaner abstractions… GTK4 is very nice.
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by TingPing 3y ago
That is a very broad question. For something the size and complexity of gimp with lots of rendering it is still a big task. Broadly speaking I think 3->4 is often easier though.
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by TingPing 3y ago
They slightly cheated and added some new features to 3.24.x to ease the transition and integrate into newer tech better like sandboxing.
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by TingPing 3y ago
GTK broke C api in 2011 and 2020. Not bad IMO.
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by TingPing 3y ago
They are still going to be sandboxes, regular permissioned, apps. Nothing changes for most apps except they get a 100% cut of in-app sales.
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by TingPing 3y ago
Moving from C++ is the most reasonable choice ever. It is very complex and 20 developers who use it could come up with 20 solutions given freedom. Standardizing on a simple language is just good for collaboration.
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by TingPing 4y ago
The browser isn’t the ideal place to do things “on the GPU” unless the site is designed around it.
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by TingPing 4y ago
It is a very common binding.

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