awrmc

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by awrmc 5y ago
>GNOME3 and GTK3 didn't offer much to Linux desktop users, yet they were adopted. Are we thinking of the same thing? GTK3 had a much better theming system, new widgets, support for high DPI displays, improved rendering, support for
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by awrmc 5y ago
I would say most of it is unnecessary buzzwords that don't help explain it. The whole thing can be simplified to something like "systemd is a task runner that has a dependency graph and transactions". That should also be fair
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by awrmc 5y ago
I can't understand what you're talking about, I'm looking through the list of specifications and I don't see anything specific to Red Hat or systemd. I also see a lot of other names besides Red Hat people: https:/&
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by awrmc 5y ago
>And why wouldn't you compare it with the systems it actually competes against and replaces rather than against something that was barely used any more before systemd even stated development? I would say that's a meaningless co
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by awrmc 5y ago
I'm an open source hacker and I like systemd. Once I took the time to learn its APIs I found it does everything I expect. Your issues with XFCE and libinput don't seem to be related to systemd. I can't see how airing grievanc
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by awrmc 5y ago
You have a misunderstanding of what Freedesktop is. Freedesktop is just a group of desktop developers that submit standards to each other, they don't really dictate anything. For that reason it tends to self-select for developers who a
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by awrmc 5y ago
I just made an account to respond to this. Shipping scripts is racy and error-prone. It's the wrong approach and is not how any actively developed desktop wants to do things. They want an API they can use from a service, that's wh