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by chmln 8y ago
Thanks for putting that post together - that is very informative.
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by chmln 8y ago
> It's one of the reasons desktop linux lags so far behind You really can' fault desktop linux at least performance-wise. I have ~3ms input latency in vim on xterm. Good luck beating that on windows, or even a mac. The reason l
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by chmln 8y ago
> We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources I used to use gitlab at work daily and releases would mention how performance is being tackled consistently. However, I have not seen any large improvements at all, suggesting that there
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by chmln 8y ago
Because LSP is a widely used protocol for language tooling that's not coupled to any particular editor. I'm surprised xi didn't just add an LSP client to leverage the existing ecosystem. The benefits of in-house language serv
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by chmln 8y ago
> you have to put so many gitignore exceptions and I'm not even talking about the gigs of data all the chromium derivatives put into that folder Yeah but chrome devs half-assing the trivial xdg spec doesn't mean that xdg sucks
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by chmln 8y ago
> Using the XDG standard leaves you with whatever the distro decides is the correct location for these files. This is not true. Even if the distribution sets global xdg variables (none that I've come across do) - the user can always
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by chmln 8y ago
It is useful to have hidden files shown by default (.gitignore, .config, etc). And not everyone uses GUI file managers all day. Home directory is the default directory for terminal emulators, and having it polluted to me feels like sitting
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by chmln 8y ago
> Every time I go back to X, I'm reminded of why I use Wayland full time. Why's that? Genuinely curious as I always have the exact opposite experience. I've found both gnome wayland and sway matching neither x11's fea
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by chmln 8y ago
Wayland is not the default on most Linux distributions for a reason and likely won't be for a while. Surprised to see it picked as a foundation as it is not mature at all, despite the protocol being around for a decade now.
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by chmln 8y ago
Hey, thanks for chiming in! I didn't mean the "fanboy" remark to be personal on any level. I just thought that some particular comparisons were unfair. There are numerous valid points in the piece and I don't see much wr
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by chmln 8y ago
This went past me as the post is filled with a lot of claims with no reasoning to back those up. It is not a critical evaluation of the language, but rather sounds like a "fanboy" piece, for the lack of a better term. > Memory
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by chmln 8y ago
Requiring users to adopt a new extension is a massive change and as an end-user I have nothing to gain from this - I'm already using babel and typescript along with a huge part of the community. If this creates regressions like you sai
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by chmln 8y ago
Instead of forcing this joke of a file extension, it would be far better to make a breaking change in a semver major release and do away with commonjs. There is no usecase for having two module syntaxes at the same time. All the big project
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by chmln 8y ago
> Linux can find an OEM to massively push it out on a range of machines Who is Linux? I feel like the Linux Foundation won't do much to dethrone Windows, with Microsoft as a platinum dollar bag on board.
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by chmln 8y ago
Yeah, the documentation isn't great. However, > block everything, allow this handful of ports This is trivial. ufw default deny incoming ufw allow 22
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by chmln 8y ago
> we had an opportunity to get our work out to users. We'll take these opportunities as we get them. Compared to the number of people who browse the web on desktop, the number of VR/AR users is statistically insignificant. Movi
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by chmln 8y ago
I will admit I was secretly hoping that Servo would become a new, minimalistic, privacy-focused browser that would also blow Chrome out the water with performance. Its a shame they just plugged some parts into Firefox and called it a day. I
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by chmln 8y ago
I'm afraid our hopes of Servo resurrecting Mozilla were short lived. From what I understand, work on Servo for Desktop has been phased out considerably. See https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mix
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by chmln 8y ago
Sorry but the devtools can't even inspect my websocket API frames. The websocket inspector was a feature request filed 6 years ago . [1] Maybe Firefox devs didn't have time for it. But somehow they got all the time in the world t
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by chmln 8y ago
Lack of file previews makes it a deal breaker. Ranger is a bit slower, but it does so much more.
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by chmln 8y ago
> you would be making an accurate observation about race and power dynamics Accurate observations don't get a pass, unless you're generally smearing the white race. Today, you cannot have a conversation about racial differences
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by chmln 8y ago
> strong privacy guarantees This can change any day. And if you think that's impossible, look at Windows or Google Chrome. Most users just will happily trade privacy for convenience. > the other requires you to invest time and ef
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by chmln 8y ago
All it takes is booting into fasboot and running `fastboot oem unlock`. If that's too much for some, I don't blame them for choosing Apple.
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by chmln 8y ago
As they say, when there's a will - there's a way. The author clearly did not evaluate all of the alternatives, and simply jumped from one walled garden to another. Bloatware, adware, and battery life are cited as his reasons. But
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by chmln 8y ago
> You're literally talking to one of the main initial people behind the Mozilla project that uses the GPU for browser rendering more than any other browser, on the comments of a post about this stuff making its way to a release I do
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by chmln 8y ago
Glad to hear work this is something that's being worked on because Firefox is still losing market share. And that's not good news for all of us. You may put GPU support in quotation marks, but Chromium is way snappier and faster t
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by chmln 8y ago
As the sibling comment mentions, not on Linux. Perhaps I should've been clearer, but the point still stands.
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by chmln 8y ago
I've experienced the exact same thing on latest thunderbird betas and nightlies. Its a shame that GPU support by Mozilla products is in such abysmal state. Meanwhile Google has working hardware accelerated video decoding AND decent GPU
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by chmln 8y ago
Yes, the laptop always had an SSD and I know about the difference an SSD can make in terms of overall performance. However, the same comparison holds. I have an older backup PC in the basement with a hard drive, and it still takes just a fe

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