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rashil2000
5y ago
You can already do that inside regular (neo)vim, using https://github.com/wfxr/code-minimap
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Microsoft will no longer stop you from installing Windows 11 on older PCs
(theverge.com)
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I use LineageOS+microG and practically all apps not made by Google (WhatsApp, Spotify, PayTM) work as they should. Even for some Google apps, there are good alternatives like YouTube Vanced etc.
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5y ago
I have used the popular open source NDS emulator - Citra, and it runs like 15 times faster on Windows compared to Ubuntu (NVidia GPU).
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5y ago
gdu added that feature just a couple of releases ago.
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5y ago
There's a pure PowerShell version[0] of this, for Windows, called winfetch. The repository also has a batch alternative for systems not supporting PowerShell. [0]: https://github.com/kiedtl/winfetch
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Winfetch: A zero-dependency Neofetch clone written in PowerShell
(github.com)
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It's not like anyone absolutely needs it, I was just fascinated by the recent surge in faster and more cross-platform utilities.
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Love seeing these modern alternatives to coreutils! Ripgrep, fd, hyperfine, bat, exa, bottom, gdu, wc, sd, hexyl... Yet to find a GNU 'tr' alternative though
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5y ago
Why does this matter so much? Our team purposefully decided to use a really well known component library (Material UI React) so that it automatically takes care of browser inconsistencies. But no, I still find myself and my team scratching
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5y ago
No, but Safari routinely causes many problems that seem utterly basic for Firefox/Chrome.
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5y ago
macOS is already *nix-based, so that's not really surprising. Besides my questions were completely different than what you answered.
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> ...anything competes with Mac OSX terminal out of the box... Would you like to explain how? Maybe not iTerm2, but the Windows Terminal is a pretty capable terminal compared to Terminal.app and it's development progress has been ph
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> I hate how it prefers to display everything as icons instead of details. It's actually the opposite. The view for each folder is dependent on what's inside, and if Explorer is unable to decide, it defaults to Details view.
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5y ago
Alternate title: GTA V made to look like GTA IV by new machine learning model :)
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5y ago
That repo is extremely outdated. Here's the official(?) supercharged fork, which is actively developed - https://github.com/chrisant996/clink
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6y ago
It wasn't necessary. I just wanted to experiment; I had some free time over the holidays. The blog is just a PoC. GUI apps on Windows are more than enough; there should be no need (currently, at least) to have GUI apps running in WSL.
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6y ago
It is my favorite too! I can quickly work in Bash/Zsh without starting any WSL sessions.
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6y ago
How would you feel if you were to ask someone "Hey how do I run Office on Linux (for whatever reason, probably work-enforced)?" and they replied "JuSt iNsTaLl WiNdOws!"
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6y ago
I would recommend you to read this article by a former Canonical engineer - https://boxofcables.dev/no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows...
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6y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback! I'll get to work on the font right on. Regarding the `prefers-color-scheme` part, I haven't extensively tested on Firefox, but it works really well on Chromium-ish browsers.
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Hi, just wanted to chime in and ask a question. Wouldn't MS (or any company for that matter) get in legal trouble for endorsing/crediting a developer who has a history of making software that uses/manages pirated content? The