I’m totally happy with XFCE, and I’m sad about how happy I am because I’ve got no incentive to have fun by playing with alternatives. Anyway, for anyone who wants to become as happy with a non-tiling WM as I am, the trick is to use jumpapp or something similar plus your favourite key-remapper to assign keys to jump to apps without having to think about where their windows are.
Honestly surprised the autor didn’t receive a cease and desist from some inane telecom operator or someone similar. My recent encounters even through bug bounty programs have been disappointing to say the least. Reporting these things is annoyingly unsafe from a legal perspective if you stumble upon a special type of… person.
Somehow those bug bounty programs have also broken my nearly endless patience‡, the next things I find will either be sold or immediately published anonymously. There’s unfortunately simply nothing one can do against irresponsible vendors besides public disclosure (and shaming). Until some lawmaker decides to change that.
‡ After all I’ve been living using Linux with Nvidia on and off for more than a decade now, I’m only half joking
I understand how it happened, but it’s unsettling to see all of this work put in just for the outcome to be “performance is only a little bit worse now”. The details about why that happened were very interesting!
Well it depends on the type of acceleration we’re speaking of. But I’ve tried forcing hardware acceleration on video decode and honestly you’d be surprised how much it failed and I did this on rather new hardware. It was actually shockingly unreliable. I’m fairly certain it’s significantly worse if you extend your view to older hardware and other vendors.
I’m also fairly sure, judging by people’s complaints, that throwing variable refresh rate, higher bit depths and hardware-accelerated scheduling in the mix has not resulted in neither flagship reliability or performance.
It can be the primary platform but this doesn’t mean it’s good or always does what it should or promises it’ll do.
I’m sure that comes with its own significant problems considering the massive hodgepodge of tooling used by all the different software that has to be built.
Beyond microcontrollers, I really haven’t seen anything remotely usable. I’d love to be wrong though.
I tried to find a Pi Zero replacement, but the few boards available all had terrible performance. The one I bought in the end turned out has an unusable draft implementation of vector instructions and it’s significantly slower than any other Linux board I’ve ever used, from IO to just CPU performance. Not to mention the poor software support (I truly despise device trees at this point).
battle-tested and found/refined to withstand the rigor of real-world use
You are not describing research code. Scientists are generally concerned with publishing their next paper, not with maintaining software which often has no users at all outside the lab. Code is a means to an end, and usually seen as somewhat incidental to the business at hand. Even computer scientists tend to write sloppy, throwaway research prototype code, in my experience.
Just for a data point, the RP2350 chip in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 includes a pair of RV32IMACZb* cores as alternates for the main Cortex-M33 cores: you can choose which architecture to boot into. The Pico 2 costs $5 in quantities of 1.
Well, that’s a bit harsh on the RISC-V ecosystem although not entirely unwarranted. FWIW I think you’re making the right choice here, and I’m excited to try out a non-systemd distro that cares about overall system quality and integrity. Others can nurse RISC-V linux through these awkward years.
I’m totally happy with XFCE, and I’m sad about how happy I am because I’ve got no incentive to have fun by playing with alternatives. Anyway, for anyone who wants to become as happy with a non-tiling WM as I am, the trick is to use jumpapp or something similar plus your favourite key-remapper to assign keys to jump to apps without having to think about where their windows are.
That new thing is what I was referring to :)
The stacking seems only marginally useful to me.
Honestly surprised the autor didn’t receive a cease and desist from some inane telecom operator or someone similar. My recent encounters even through bug bounty programs have been disappointing to say the least. Reporting these things is annoyingly unsafe from a legal perspective if you stumble upon a special type of… person.
Somehow those bug bounty programs have also broken my nearly endless patience‡, the next things I find will either be sold or immediately published anonymously. There’s unfortunately simply nothing one can do against irresponsible vendors besides public disclosure (and shaming). Until some lawmaker decides to change that.
‡ After all I’ve been living using Linux with Nvidia on and off for more than a decade now, I’m only half joking
I understand how it happened, but it’s unsettling to see all of this work put in just for the outcome to be “performance is only a little bit worse now”. The details about why that happened were very interesting!
Well it depends on the type of acceleration we’re speaking of. But I’ve tried forcing hardware acceleration on video decode and honestly you’d be surprised how much it failed and I did this on rather new hardware. It was actually shockingly unreliable. I’m fairly certain it’s significantly worse if you extend your view to older hardware and other vendors.
I’m also fairly sure, judging by people’s complaints, that throwing variable refresh rate, higher bit depths and hardware-accelerated scheduling in the mix has not resulted in neither flagship reliability or performance.
It can be the primary platform but this doesn’t mean it’s good or always does what it should or promises it’ll do.
I’m sure that comes with its own significant problems considering the massive hodgepodge of tooling used by all the different software that has to be built.
Why not cross-compile?
Beyond microcontrollers, I really haven’t seen anything remotely usable. I’d love to be wrong though.
I tried to find a Pi Zero replacement, but the few boards available all had terrible performance. The one I bought in the end turned out has an unusable draft implementation of vector instructions and it’s significantly slower than any other Linux board I’ve ever used, from IO to just CPU performance. Not to mention the poor software support (I truly despise device trees at this point).
Just tried, instantly sold! Also coming from years of tiling WMs.
There is safe-path that I think is technically it, but it gives impression of being container-specific, and the crate has only a single 0.1.0 release.
There’s also fs_at building block.
Not related to the article, but I really like the minimap you added to your website!
You are not describing research code. Scientists are generally concerned with publishing their next paper, not with maintaining software which often has no users at all outside the lab. Code is a means to an end, and usually seen as somewhat incidental to the business at hand. Even computer scientists tend to write sloppy, throwaway research prototype code, in my experience.
Slowly but surely replacing copyleft software 🙁
(with MIT here)
This looks like a well fleshed out project. Look at the libraries available - postgres, sqlite, an http server and even a GUI library that uses GTK3.
Just for a data point, the RP2350 chip in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 includes a pair of RV32IMACZb* cores as alternates for the main Cortex-M33 cores: you can choose which architecture to boot into. The Pico 2 costs $5 in quantities of 1.
Well, that’s a bit harsh on the RISC-V ecosystem although not entirely unwarranted. FWIW I think you’re making the right choice here, and I’m excited to try out a non-systemd distro that cares about overall system quality and integrity. Others can nurse RISC-V linux through these awkward years.
The old twm window manager has a big canvas virtual desktop instead of little boxes. Fvwm can be configured either way https://www.fvwm.org/Man/fvwm3/#_the_virtual_desktop
Yeah I was excited for something more like the Fossil GUI server, which is just right there in the binary.
Yes, it has windows stacked in columns, like in Xmonad.
Woah, actually there’s something new in https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/933, just a few days after the 25-01 release.
Ah, roughly comparable to a Sun E450 then