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hbag posted:this is how i got it looking after spending all last night loving around with it. i think it looks alright but its still missing something hbag posted:semi-related but ive been seeing screenshots of people with what looks like real-time stats being printed onto their wallpaper, sometimes with fancy graphs n poo poo, instead of in a terminal and ive always wondered what theyre using to do that it used to be all the rage when rainmeter was in active development, and conky for unix-like systems can do most of it automatically, but is less customizable and more prone to breakage
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Beeftweeter posted:oh god rainmeter i usually can't remember poo poo from back then
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:im not gonna lie, i have no idea where i pulled that out from yeah, i mean, i remember using it for probably two days, lol. turns out it's not nearly as useful as it looks of course those were the days where "post your desktop" threads were all over the nerd internet and you kind of had to have something similar for it to look cool but it kinda faded in popularity nearly as quick as its rise. i was kinda surprised i forgot its name (i remember that era very vivdly), but i'm sure there's a ton of little utilities and poo poo all of us used to use back then that are basically just long forgotten
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Athas posted:See that's the cool thing about modern LaTeX usage: you can ignore the package manager aspect, because you just install every single loving LaTeX package up front through your normal system-level package manager. if I wanted a giant pile of bloated poo poo I would just use Microsoft Office
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if i wanted a giant pile of bloated poo poo on my desktop i would turn my monitor off
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Samurize was another stats on desktop type thing that popular around the same time. Best copland was the stallone movie where he had to use his ear to break the window of a submerged car.
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eschaton posted:the only thing one should do with EFI or UEFI is install an Open Firmware implementation atop it ok chuck moore
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do anyone else get both chromium and edge to freeze and/or crash if you:
it's a type of bug that's not that easy to search around for, so i just wondered if it was just me.
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Works for me on Vivaldi. Would be pretty devastating if using mouse gestures crashed the browser.
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yeah it's annoying. works if ozone platform is x11 though. this is on alder lake-based laptop
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Iirc chromium based browsers had some weird problems with hardware accelerated rendering and that weirdo ozone thing sometimes. I'd check if it works with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
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poo poo, apt has a new look can actually see what you're upgrading now lmao
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Tankakern posted:do anyone else get both chromium and edge to freeze and/or crash if you: what now? i'm on i think comet lake (idk its 10th gen, and wayland) and don't see ozone or any other gases
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my first linux was red hat 4.2 that i bought online in 1997 i think and it arrived in a fancy box. i had no idea what a linux was, but i had seen screenshots of the enlightenment window manager and thought it was just a beautiful kind of windows. anyway it took me weeks to learn how to partition and install red hat back before it had a simple wizard and then to learn linux and then to download and compile all the dependencies for enlightenment with dialup, and yeah it looked pretty good. now i just want everything to look something like windows 98 (but with higher pixel density) and follow a basic, consistent design.
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the first linux i actually used for more than a few days on my personal system was coincidentally whatever red hat version was right before fedora core 1 (before that i'd run debian on my dreamcast and pc, but not for much more than playing with). i had been keeping up with the news and all, so i knew that was coming, but was still mildly annoyed that the os changed its name a few weeks after installing it lol still i think i had a geforce 3 at the time, was playing a lot of UT99 and remember it being way faster under linux than windows (iirc 2000, i don't think xp was out yet) e: and also iirc there wasn't any very easy way to go straight from red hat to fedora core, you basically had to install it from scratch. i'm pretty sure that was also the first distro i'd seen that was distributed with a dvd image, otherwise it was like 4-5 cds with only having a 1x dvd-rw at the time, since they were crazy expensive new technology and writing one (1) dvd took literally hours and cost like $10 per disc, obviously i went with the cds since a way-too-easy to attain buffer underrun would result in not only a ton of wasted time but also a very expensive coaster kinda crazy what we used to put up with lol Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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I can login to Wayland in NixOS KDE but not X11. It just says it can't find the screen. Only thing keeping Windows on my 4tb drive is the fact I NEED synergy/waynergy/input-leap/barrier to work and they don't function properly in Wayland 
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gabensraum posted:now i just want everything to look something like windows 98 (but with higher pixel density) and follow a basic, consistent design. from ms thread Beeftweeter posted:well all of you pining for Old Windows But Modern are in luck, this aurorae theme i found is a loving dead on ringer for win98. seriously, it's flawless e: having actually used it for a while since then it actually isn't flawless, as long as you keep freetype antialiasing off, lol. it looks like poo poo since the kerning gets all messed up (you can see it in the screenshot above, but i figured that was because it was using spanish language. it's not) luckily you can get freetype to approximate cleartype though, so it ends up looking/feeling like i guess winxp with an old windows flag/icons. but at least you get correct kerning that way. plus, really, using it in hidpi without antialiasing just looks bad Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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mycophobia posted:my first linux was mandrake back in 2003 i think when i was 13 and i had a winmodem and i didnt know what winmodems were and i nuked the windows xp install to install it and i didnt have a recovery cd so i just had a useless, internetless linux computer for a while until i got my dad to buy a retail copy of win xp
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Truga posted:poo poo, apt has a new look put code:
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah, i mean, i remember using it for probably two days, lol. turns out it's not nearly as useful as it looks emerge and talisman desktop are the two that stand out in my memory
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Slackware 4.0 on floppy disks was my first Linux distribution. 
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:this was also the era of windows shell replacements where people would customize things that put even the worst hollywood animations to shame I used to make litestep themes 
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Beeftweeter posted:e: having actually used it for a while since then it actually isn't flawless, as long as you keep freetype antialiasing off, lol. it looks like poo poo since the kerning gets all messed up (you can see it in the screenshot above, but i figured that was because it was using spanish language. it's not) yeah. linux has never been able to get font rendering right. even with the expired patents.
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does that theme use a hand-hinted pixel font for that aesthetic or is it trying to use MS Sans Serif without anti-aliasing?
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other people posted:I used to make litestep themes i used to make windows xp themes. with a resource editor. because i was one of the first people to map out the msstyles format  corona familiar posted:does that theme use a hand-hinted pixel font for that aesthetic or is it trying to use MS Sans Serif without anti-aliasing? it's using freesans (which is a helvetica clone, just like ms sans serif) without any anti-aliasing or hinting akadajet posted:yeah. linux has never been able to get font rendering right. even with the expired patents. the above is really why it's that bad looking. freetype with the cleartype patent mode enabled is indistinguishable from the implementation in windows xp-7 (ms changed it in 8), and freesans just has lovely hinting and kerning anyway
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One time I used discrete gates to alter the output of a 7447 BCD to 7 segment decoder, because I didn't like how it rendered the 6 and 9. Pixel hinting with a karnaugh map.
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what's wrong with them? you just wanted tails/stems or what? i mean, looks like a 6 or 9 to me lol
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Upper and lower horz bar. It's not wrong, but I prefer the modern pattern.
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akadajet posted:yeah. linux has never been able to get font rendering right. even with the expired patents. linux has always had better font rendering than pretty much everyone except apple tho, and now also apple because apple dropped subpixel hinting/antialias
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Truga posted:linux has always had better font rendering than pretty much everyone except apple tho, and now also apple because apple dropped subpixel hinting/antialias yeah, if you, for example: run a windows app under wine, while having the correct (i.e. copied from windows) fonts with the cleartype patent encumbered algorithm enabled, and you turn off allowing the window manager to decorate/control the window — a screenshot of it is a 1:1 match with windows (using the same theme, obviously, wine does support msstyles now) the problem really isn't freetype or how linux handles fonts, it's mostly the fonts themselves. most foss fonts don't bother with any opentype or even truetype features (while apple's usually have even more than that, they use AAT; ms's fonts mostly just use opentype hinting) and end up looking weird as a result of those features being expected. if hinting instructions are not in the font then it will attempt to auto-hint them, and that generally does not work well e: like, the switch, ps4/5, a whole lot more and even a couple of apple products all use freetype. they look fine because the fonts are good Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:apparently the freebsd ftp archive does contain the 1.0 release of freebsd on i386, despite it containing some of the files that got listed in the usl v bsdi/ucb suit that stuff was all opened later on by Caldera, I’m pretty sure it was all taken down (but preserved) between the start of the AT&T suit and Caldera’s acquisition and (limited) release of the USL intellectual property my first UNIX was SVR3 on a 3B2, before either Linux or 386BSD existed
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eschaton posted:that stuff was all opened later on by Caldera, I’m pretty sure it was all taken down (but preserved) between the start of the AT&T suit and Caldera’s acquisition and (limited) release of the USL intellectual property my first unix was A/UX but i had no idea at the time lol. it did an extremely good job of integrating with mac os
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah, if you, for example: run a windows app under wine, while having the correct (i.e. copied from windows) fonts with the cleartype patent encumbered algorithm enabled, and you turn off allowing the window manager to decorate/control the window — a screenshot of it is a 1:1 match with windows (using the same theme, obviously, wine does support msstyles now) I use IBM Plex as my desktop font and it looks great
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Woolie Wool posted:I use IBM Plex as my desktop font and it looks great yeah they bothered to put a ton of hinting instructions in the whole family, ime most of the lovely ones come from google fonts (although you can find e.g. the plex family there too). i was using plex sans with debian for quite a while until i switched to clear, now i just use (a real version of) neue haas grotesk e: clear does come with intel's clear family (clear sans, serif, mono) and it's decent looking and well hinted too, but in regular use looks a bit too chunky for my tastes Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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