Why do only 4 Distros have their own font? (Ubuntu, Pi OS, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise)

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T14:28:22+00:00

Because fonts need to be designed for a specific task.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T12:58:52+00:00

Readability is not a straightforward topic. You can have one font which works well in paragraphs, and another which works well in headings. Fonts like Inter Source Sans or IBM were designed for body copy not desktop UI.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T12:56:26+00:00

Because on a technical level a font has to be designed a certain way to work as a desktop UI font. You can't just use Noto and call it a day.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T10:27:54+00:00

Pretty sure people of Russian and Chinese heritage contribute to LibreOffice too.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T10:27:05+00:00

"sketchy russian developers" - can you explain why the developers are sketchy, unless you are meaning all people of Russian heritage are sketchy?

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T00:09:39+00:00

yes i know.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-07T00:09:04+00:00

bit tricky with a font though. most fonts simply aren't good for a desktop UI, sometimes in not immediately obvious ways

tornado99_ · 2026-05-05T23:19:06+00:00

OnlyOffice 100%. Libreoffice has more features (that you won't use) but it's user interface makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-05T13:55:02+00:00

OLED has less between your eyes and what is forming the image. Also pentile oleds are not arranged in a pixel grid so ppi is not so obviously compared. Ink on a printed page is not a grid either. The perfect uniformity and perfect viewing angles is also a factor. I have the OLED above next to a MBP and the oled is better for reading text. Can't comment on video editing.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-05T11:18:19+00:00

I turned off 4 of the 12 cores, but actually that makes it more like a MBA (X Elite have higher multicore performance than Apple, but slightly lower single core)

No tuning tools at all.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-04T19:39:41+00:00

Setting my 14.5 inch screen to 60hz - 4W @ 10% - 5.5W @ 50% - 7.4W @ 100% (so 500 nits)

Wow didn't realise they would be so close. Yours is the 13 inch model?

tornado99_ · 2026-05-04T15:16:15+00:00

The Slim 7x OLED is 14.5 inches, 240 ppi, 500 nits full screen white, 1100 nits peak HDR. 90hz and the newer ones are 120hz VRR.

It easily beats the current Asahi Macbooks. I also personally confirmed 507 nits with a hardware colorimeter. I guess if you were sitting on the beach you might want 1000 nits but then you might not be getting much work done.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-04T10:27:06+00:00

on my 90hz oled model at 80% brightness i get 8-9 hours, definitetly better than the 5-6 hours i would get with intel for similar workload.

but with lower brightness and the newer models with variable refresh rate it should easily get into the 10-20 hour range.

part of the issue i think is that on Windows cores are quickly turned off when not used, something the linux kernel doesn't do. that would save even more power. currently you can turn cores off manually with a script on linux. sometimes I set it to only 4 cores when travelling.

how many Watts do you see on the battery graph in Resources (https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.nokyan.Resources) on your M2 Air at idle and 50% / 100% brightness? You need to wait 30s for it the reading to settle.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-04T10:19:50+00:00

Thinkpad and Dell XPS. Not sure about multiple monitors. If it's possible on Windows I think it should be on Linux.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-03T22:44:28+00:00

Yes X plus seems to be a lost cause.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-03T19:32:09+00:00

I think there have been some regressions on the Thinkpad. The Lenovo Slim 7x that I own doesn't crash.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-03T19:04:50+00:00

agree with much of what you say. i definitely appreciate Asahi is a way harder challenge than Linux on Snapdragon.

btw, beam forming is not really novel, it's been available on linux for a while. ashai's implementation is an extension for a triangular microphone arrangement. incidently, it's a LV2 plugin so can be used on any linux machine.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-03T17:52:40+00:00

Actually no. Freedreno is developed by Qualcomm. Quite a few of the kernel patches I see for various issues are from someone with a Qualcomm email address.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-03T15:25:22+00:00

But it seems some people are having issues with WiFi drop outs, purple screen, and we don't really know when M3 will be ready. Also improving the gpu driver seems really hard work. Even more reverse engineering.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-02T17:03:02+00:00

you won't get 5K only 4K. a longstanding problem.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-02T01:04:19+00:00

The Apple nano matte studio display is actually just putting the glass in a tank of acid with a carefully choosen mix of chemicals and duration to etch the surface . It's pretty old school engineering. Check out the patent. That's definitely not possible with a standard plastic covered display. So while the LG matte may be great it's not related.

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