md8z

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by md8z 5y ago
Or you could just learn and adapt as people always do and get used to having buttons with no borders, or the colors being slightly different, or whatever the issue is. I think it really is ridiculous how the userspace people will get into p
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by md8z 5y ago
I cannot agree with it or your comment. I have seen these type of comments pop up in every Firefox thread on HN. It is so common for people to try to play armchair CEO. But when I actually dig into it, I have really never seen anyone with a
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by md8z 5y ago
That was my initial thought as well, but if you read the rest of the article there actually is quite a lot of technical details. It's not just trashing developers. I think the title could probably be changed to be less inflammatory.
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by md8z 5y ago
As someone who is currently implementing a compact theme for a different app, anything of that nature has a non-zero cost. Which is compounded by the number of designers you have working on the product who now all have to review every chang
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by md8z 5y ago
Is there anyone who you believe does have a finger on that pulse? If so, why? What can we learn from them?
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not a security engineer but I have attended a lot of talks by security people. And the feeling I get from them is: don't opt-out of security updates. You don't want that option, it is a lose-lose for everyone involved, in
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by md8z 5y ago
Well I said this earlier but this is not specifically about my personal experience with shortcomings, although that was an influence. I have heard many of the same issues coming from large numbers of other people, and I think there is a rel
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by md8z 5y ago
Please do not undo charitable interpretations. I intentionally put the phrase "I think" in that comment so it was clear that it was my opinion. I don't know how to make it any clearer than that, it is a thought that I had. It
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by md8z 5y ago
Ok I see what you're saying. Sorry for the misunderstanding: the bugs here can't realistically be fixed. They keep popping up over and over again and they will for as long as the design stays flawed. It is the design that needs to
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by md8z 5y ago
I have not done that, in fact I intentionally used the phrase "in my opinion" in my original comment so I wouldn't get this type of response. But I guess I didn't use it enough times.
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by md8z 5y ago
I have already done that for quite a long time, that doesn't fix the problem, that just makes it so there is yet another half-assed and broken WM to add to the pile. Or should I say, graveyard, because so many of them have come and gon
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by md8z 5y ago
In my opinion, all that stuff on MacOS (Amethyst, Rectangle, Spectacle, etc) is also broken in the same way. Apple's window manager has a built in fullscreen tiling mode that could actually be way better but is currently missing things
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by md8z 5y ago
For 1, all of them are inadequate in the same way, because tiling is just not adequate for most use cases. Most desktop apps are not designed for tiling, and the few that work well with it, also work just fine with another system. For 2, if
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand your analogy. If a smelter is using something in a bad or inefficient way and a smith is capable of explaining it to them, then that would be beneficial to do so. People do not have to do exactly the same job in the
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by md8z 5y ago
Yes, if you think it's stupid, just imagine how I feel...
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by md8z 5y ago
I am not talking about this as a preference, I think they are actually a fundamentally flawed design. This is my experience from using it for a long period of time and talking to hundreds of people about this and reading probably in the tho
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by md8z 5y ago
I am telling you this as someone who had that personal preference for at least 10 years. They are broken and they don't work, the uses cases you use them for can be done better with anything else. I'll go through them for you, kee
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm sorry, the article does not mention anything specific really so there was nothing I could respond to, I will follow up to a post above though.
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm going to get flak for this but I'll say it anyway: tiling window managers are awful and broken, everybody who uses them on Linux knows it and either doesn't want to admit it or knows it and doesn't care. I get why th
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by md8z 5y ago
Is that sarcasm? A key difference I would say is that the web is actually better because you can run javascript or WASM code in the browser, in X that would be the equivalent of the "server"...
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by md8z 5y ago
"Compositors are an optional component. I have never run one myself since they don't add anything of value. So any time someone says 'the X server only talks to the compositor' I'm like 'lol what compositor&#x2
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by md8z 5y ago
It really isn't though. I'm honestly getting very exhausted reading these HN comments suggesting that the situation with using Linux on the desktop is okay. I feel like I have been reading those comments for like 10 years (and on
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by md8z 5y ago
All of that is extremely possible with a web app though, and most of it is probably done even easier with a web app. In fact that is the usual way to build a web app, make a server that does the heavy lifting and then make a GUI that runs i
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by md8z 5y ago
You need to double buffer the clients or you will still get flickering and noticeable redraw. You can see this with older X clients. It actually is a protocol issue because X was explicitly designed to do this. You are presenting this as
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by md8z 5y ago
I guess you can consider yourself lucky that you're not affected by those bugs? Things are ostensibly already broken and have been for quite some time, some of those bugs are over 15 years old. If you only care about bugs that affect y
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by md8z 5y ago
Yeah you do if you want to have the same window span across monitors. And if you have non-integer DPI scaling then things will probably always be either blurry or inaccurate, that is unavoidable.
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm really disappointed to see this get mentioned in this context, it's not relevant. At least on debian, ssh -Y and ssh -X has done the same thing since like 2013 because ssh -X is broken and causes clients to crash. The "sa
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by md8z 5y ago
GTK doesn't support it because nobody implemented it. IIRC the Qt support is also pretty buggy and doesn't work on some compositors.
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by md8z 5y ago
No, it's not factually false, those fall in the "pile of hacks" I mentioned, and none of them work in all cases, some of them are highly dependent on driver support which is spotty. I can show you various bug reports from the
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand why this philosophy discussion seems to get brought up so frequently or why anyone needs to care about philosophy in the context of a computer program. Linux distributions that adopted it are not sitting around ponde

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