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by ankurdhama 7mo ago
Looking at this IBM pc keyboard image in this article, where all the function keys are on the left, it makes sense that Alt+F4 and other similar shortcut on Windows made sense at that time, but these days function keys being at top row make
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by ankurdhama 8mo ago
My assumption here is that if the link is web link it will open that link in web browser but Windows (and other OSes) have custom URL handlers that open whatever app is registered for that URL and that app may have issues that causes it to
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by ankurdhama 8mo ago
Usually a Wayland compositor just do very few things like compose different program windows to your display output and feed the focused window input events. Desktop elements like wallpaper, panel/dock etc are considered part of "d
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by ankurdhama 9mo ago
This should not be hard. Lets start with 1) Allow local accounts without any tricks 2) Don't treat Windows as a funnel to push other MS products.
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by ankurdhama 9mo ago
Agree. They should make the desktop UI similar to what is there on ChromeOS or Samsung Dex. The top bar doesn't make sense at all.
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by ankurdhama 9mo ago
WSLg also works on Windows 10.
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by ankurdhama 9mo ago
So the "hardware failure" happening exactly at the same time the Windows update installation failed are not related? That sounds like a one in a billion kind of coincident.
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by ankurdhama 10mo ago
Have you tried any other desktop environment like Gnome or KDE?
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by ankurdhama 10mo ago
> The TaskBar at the bottom was a great innovation that persists to this day The taskbar was supposed to be at the top of screen but some apps would put window at 0,0 and will be below taskbar, to fix they moved the taskbar to bottom (wh
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by ankurdhama 11mo ago
There are many MDM solutions for macOS that business use.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
What's worse then copilot on task bar is the copilot key on keyboard. This key doesn't even have its own scan code, instead it send something like Win+Shift+F23.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
You mean the designers who did something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1nrcvok/i_dont_see_t...
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Please fine $1B more for providing only SD stream on Linux.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Exactly, so many hoops to jump over on macos.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
The title should be "Can life be modeled as computation". It doesn't mean life is computation.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
The problem is not NVIDIA GPU, it is laptops that have iGPU (amd or intel) and Nvidia dgpu. In such a configuration the experience is really really bad in both X11 and wayland.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
> Linux will not penetrate that market unless it makes it possible to release completely proprietary (even woefully crappy, move fast and break things) software easily That sounds like skill issue (i.e the company developing the software
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Given the choice between these I will probably pick C++ because of its feature that allows creation of higher level of abstractions. Abstractions are not just about "nice code", they are more about helping you think through comple
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Yeah this is a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4195 This happens on any GTK apps on KDE as well, so it seems to be a toolkit bug instead of compositor bug. Apparently this happens onl
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
On macOS you can have an app that is running without any windows open and you use the menu bar to invoke different commands in that app. This is why cmd+tab allows you to switch to an app that doesn't have any window open, essentially
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
> I’m done. macOS has drifted too far into locked-down mediocrity Can you please share few examples that you faced that were related to "locking down" of macOS?
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Any examples that you would like to share OR is it more about you being more familiar with office and the alternative were different?
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
It looks like the terminal is not a terminal but showing the content of virtual frame buffer, just like what you see when you run QEMU.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
May be Qualcomm charges extra for using virtualization features on their chips?
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
This stupid pop-up (being a "window" of its own and not a DOM popup) also steal focus back to the chrome window. For example: open reddit.com in chrome (without logged in to reddit) and before the page loads switch to another app
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
box64: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
ChromeOS is more than enough for lots of roles. Even for devs (backend, web and android etc) it should be good enough if you have good enough CPU, RAM and storage.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
The problem he is describing is generally known as the problem of fragmentation. The higher you go in the software stack on a Linux desktop the more fragmented things become. Fragmentation cannot be solved by contributing code.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
> With keyboards, that includes mappings that give RSI and finger strain for the sake of not adding a handful of keys. Can you give a few examples of this. I feel Cmd+c is more ergonomic then Ctrl+c.
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by ankurdhama 1y ago
Cmd+Q quits the running application i.e it will close all the open windows of the app and quit the app. On Windows Alt+F4 is for "close the window" (macOS equivalent of Cmd+W) or to be more precise it sends the "WM_CLOSE&quot

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