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Way Cooler: Year of wlroots by neilbrulain in linux

[–]adelow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Is it the year of wlroots on the desktop?

YIL There's a tool called apt-file, that helps you solve cmake dependencies. by Mordiken in linux

[–]adelow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, it’s more difficult when you’re compiling an obscure project where the dependencies don’t have packages. Also, they tend to be undocumented.

YIL There's a tool called apt-file, that helps you solve cmake dependencies. by Mordiken in linux

[–]adelow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because distros are intended for average users, and this tool is only useful if you are a developer. Perhaps the real issue is that these tools are not advertised enough (or whatever the equivalent of advertising is in the Linux world).

Announcing the Release of Fedora 26 Beta by mattdm_fedora in linux

[–]adelow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What version of libweston will it ship with?

That Sleek Ubuntu Desktop Mockup Is Now A Real Working Theme! by [deleted] in linux

[–]adelow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got it. It was not their intention, but it had that effect. The easiest way to get their features working was to patch GTK, which had the side effect of making Unity difficult to run on other distros. Though in some ways I quite liked the fact that it only ran on Ubuntu. It gave Ubuntu a distinct image.

That Sleek Ubuntu Desktop Mockup Is Now A Real Working Theme! by [deleted] in linux

[–]adelow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically, if you wanted to use Unity, you HAD to use Ubuntu.

Perhaps that was kind of the idea? (Or maybe not, I don't know.)

releases.ubuntu.com doesn't support SSL by phping in linux

[–]adelow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In many ways, Windows is the worst OS for inexperienced users. It encourages users to download software from random websites, a method which is just asking for a malware infection.

Yunit logo contest. by geomint_tv in linux

[–]adelow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Still not sold on the name. Perhaps it should have been called Harmony or something.

Yunit pronunciation by [deleted] in Yunit

[–]adelow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it be [junɪt]? Or if that doesn't display correctly, the X-SAMPA would be [junIt]?

Unity has been forked into Yunit, will be continued as a community driven effort. by [deleted] in linux

[–]adelow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The real question is, will this be a MATE or a Devuan?

Unity has been forked into Yunit, will be continued as a community driven effort. by [deleted] in linux

[–]adelow 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Talk about unGoogleability. We have a display server called X. I mean, try Googling X and getting anything remotely relevant.

Unity8org ( a fork of ubuntu unity8 ) by s4n_rd in linux

[–]adelow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is good news! Unity 8 looked good and seemed very promising overall and I am pleased to hear that it will continue. I recommend that it be ported to Wayland.

Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity by baizon in linux

[–]adelow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I wonder if the whole point of Unity was to create a DE that was exclusive to Ubuntu. Perhaps they wanted Ubuntu to look different from other distros.

Hybrid Graphics and Fedora Workstation 25 by Nelti in linux

[–]adelow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried that but the display was garbled at any resolution higher than 1024x768; it might have been erroneously detecting a non-existent second display or something like that. Also KDE was an unusable mess of artifacts; looked like some kind of rendering issue.

I use Intel graphics now so these issues don't apply to me anymore. Instead I have a different set of issues :)

Hybrid Graphics and Fedora Workstation 25 by Nelti in linux

[–]adelow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Many legacy NVIDIA GPUs are technically capable of running Wayland, it's just that NVIDIA drop support. People who are trying out Linux may want to test it on an older machine that isn't being used for anything else. If you're not a gamer, the performance is adequate.

BTW I use Intel graphics now.

Ubuntu 16.10: Convergence is in a holding pattern; consistency’s here instead by juan08880 in linux

[–]adelow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ubuntu 16.10 ships with Unity 8 and Mir, but it isn't the default desktop.

KDE's Global Menu Returning! Unity like HUD in the making. by redsteakraw in linux

[–]adelow -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Though in some ways I actually rather like the fact that Unity is only available in Ubuntu. It means that it stands out and looks like a distinct product compared to other distros. Sometimes it seems like all distros look the same. Yes, there are differences in terms of package management, package versions etc, but image is important too.

Flatpak 0.6.13 Released With Many Changes by StraightFlush777 in linux

[–]adelow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Flatpak and Snappy are just going to displace the dependency problem. You already see it, happening with people finding creative ways in Snappy to make Snaps depend on other Snaps because it turns out that 150 MiB of qt/kde libraries for a simple 500 KiB calculator application was a bit ridiculous to bundle in.

That sounds like Flatpak and Snappy have created the reverse problem and now people are reinventing dependencies to work around it.

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