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DoomTrainPhD posted:https://boingboing.net/2022/03/16/hot-dog-linux-for-people-who-really-do-love-their-vintage-desktops.html
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rather just drop to TTY at that point lol
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 03:59 |
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I had no idea that gnustep and window maker was still a thing, I guess open source projects never die, are there still distro's out there that defaults to it?
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Probably not. I have puppy linux on a tiny USB I got from work and it uses jwm, which is surprisingly nice to use. it's still developed after like 20 years
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i like xfce and use thunar regularly even when running other wms xfce is like looking into a parallel universe of what linux desktop software would be like if it wasn't designed to be as obtuse and awful as possible
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Progressive JPEG posted:i like xfce and use thunar regularly even when running other wms I think you misspelt KDE
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Progressive JPEG posted:i like xfce and use thunar regularly even when running other wms Ya xfce is good.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 15:52 |
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xfce does the needful. i have written a lot of backend stuff on linux and i still have no idea how any of the desktop stuff is meant to be layered. does that use wayland? does anything?
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Kamrat posted:I had no idea that gnustep and window maker was still a thing, I guess open source projects never die, are there still distro's out there that defaults to it? https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 17:47 |
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windowmaker's website is baller as hell: https://www.windowmaker.org/ windowmaker owns, and just looking around on that website sparks long-forgotten joy Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 22, 2022 |
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Poopernickel posted:windowmaker's website is baller as hell: https://www.windowmaker.org/ It is wonderful, I remember the first time I ever got a nextstep-like enviroment for my windows-computer back in the 90's, think it was litestep or something along those lines, it felt so cool... until it broke like 2 weeks later, those where the days. But ever since whenever I see a nextstep-like desktop environment I get nostalgic. Cool!
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 19:52 |
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don’t forget Étoilé
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AlbertFlasher posted:Ya xfce is good. i also use xfce and it is nice and predictable
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 22:01 |
lol, apparently /dev/random and /dev/urandom can't be the same afterall
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psiox posted:i also use xfce and it is nice and predictable yeah xfce is v. good and has great performance
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DoomTrainPhD posted:https://boingboing.net/2022/03/16/hot-dog-linux-for-people-who-really-do-love-their-vintage-desktops.html *squeals* GEM ST desktop
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 00:29 |
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the idea of "open source projects that never die" made me think about RISC OS and holy poo poo there's *still* active development on it for ARMv3 machines
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the worst that can happen to an opensource project is that it's cryogenically frozen if it stops receiving maintenance, until someone else picks it up
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:the worst that can happen to an opensource project is that it's cryogenically frozen if it stops receiving maintenance, until someone else picks it up
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 04:14 |
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openoffice proves a lot of things, really. it seems to exist as an example to everyone else
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 04:27 |
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OpenOffice is like Schrodinger's cat except you're locked in the box with the cat and it's using you as a scratching post
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 04:35 |
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psiox posted:i also use xfce and it is nice and predictable i like xfce, but my main two gripes with it is that some things just arent possible with its control panel (gotta load some gnome shitpile to twiddle a setting), and the file manager is unpredictable. here is an example screenshot that i took from my then-work computer. sometimes when opening a folder i would get one type of window, and sometimes i would get the other. (filenames redacted cause work stuff) it was mystifying for as long as i worked there (which wasnt very long; this was an internship) maybe there was some reliable way to get one or the other, but in the course of just like normal working i would have some random assortment of both
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Kazinsal posted:the idea of "open source projects that never die" made me think about RISC OS and holy poo poo there's *still* active development on it for ARMv3 machines well yeah why wouldn’t there be people are also still improving FreeTOS and MINT
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 08:18 |
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hell even MINIX is still getting work done (just not 1.5) also MPE has an interesting and small set of syscalls (which it calls “intrinsics”), someone could totally reimplement it in C from first principles
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what do you mean "even minix"? most of yospos runs minix every day, more than use linux for sure.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 08:35 |
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imagine if unix had a sort/merge system this awesome and could be accessed directly via syscalls rather than have to route poo poo through pipelines
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 08:40 |
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then again the OS has a real database built in actually more than one because there are also TurboIMAGE and ALLBASE/SQL available in ways that basically add them to MPE rather than layer them strictly on top of it
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 08:47 |
that reminds me of the periodic idea that seems to crop up pretty regularily, where people think they're the first to invent the idea of using a database instead of a filesystem
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That seems like a distinction without a difference to me.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 13:45 |
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bah. implement a key based record search with arbitrary block sizes in the disk hardware itself if youre really serious about that sort of thing.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 15:36 |
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No one will pull me away from GNOME unless they offered me GNOME-but-with-faster-file-manager. Also apt is inferior to pacman.
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fresh_cheese posted:bah. you jest but i imagine this type of discussion comes up frequently at the CEPH project.
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i came back to my arch desktop after about 6 months unused and it displays the following issues, randomly. every reboot picks 1-3 issues off the list. this is not a request for assistance because i know better than to try to fix linux. im just complaining not recognize usb microphone no sound in firefox but everything else is fine low fps in rimworld flashing black screen in rimworld takes two minutes to shut down steam can't connect but firefox can cool my linux is full of ghosts
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 18:51 |
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Have you tried not using a toy distro?
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Antigravitas posted:Have you tried not using a toy operating system? install windows if you want to play games, op
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yummycheese posted:you jest but i imagine this type of discussion comes up frequently at the CEPH project. not a jest, s/360 did it in ‘64 with the Count Key Data disk io architecture ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_key_data its literally “select all data records with key=<zipcode> “ implemented in the disk hardware/firmware its still there today in z/OS VSAM with any modern ECKD dasd. DB2 on Z is basically just a lock manager and sql parser on top of vsam data in eckd disk.
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Antigravitas posted:Have you tried not using a toy distro? sound recently stopped working in chome on my ubuntu work laptop
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my sound is working great in edge on windows 10
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Shaggar posted:my sound is working great in edge on windows 10 same
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Nomnom Cookie posted:sound recently stopped working in chome on my ubuntu work laptop Antigravitas posted:Have you tried not using a toy distro?
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