nobody_1677

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[โ€“] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

MacOS is UNIX, but is not the best implementation of UNIX.

The UNIX tools it ships are extremely old. For example, it comes with GNU Screen, which I was using but was having same strange issues with. It turned out it uses a version from 2006... so I had to brew install a modern version.

And I'm personally not the biggest fan of MacOS. It's certainly better than Windows thanks to Apple mostly treating the user with basic respect (no ads), but the desktop/window manager is just super quirky. No other desktop, whether it be Windows or any desktop on Linux behaves quite like it. They tend to only adopt the nicer features while keeping a UX that feels closer to Windows. For example, MacOS quirky/unique in doing

  • Requiring a click to activate a window (with no option to change this behavior)
  • Fullscreening a window moves it to its own space
  • Closing an app's window does not close the app itself for the majority of apps
    • Perhaps not the biggest deal if the goal is app startup speed for heavily used apps, but unnecessary for rarely used apps and clutters the dock)
    • Also can be quite annoying since it will drag you to the last space you used the app on
  • Minimized windows show on dock as previews
    • Not that of an idea, but strange since you now have two ways to bring the app back: clicking on the app icon itself or the minimized preview
[โ€“] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Flatpak cannot access the host GPU drivers, so there are runtimes for NVIDIA drivers.

What they are referring to is that the driver version on the host must match the driver version installed as a flatpak runtime. Otherwise, you may get graphical issues and crashes.

[โ€“] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Packagekit mainly.

It also helps if you just focus on a single package format. The Snap Store's performance is great, though I have seen some baffling QA issues with it (like categories showing up like "Devel..."). There's also that store that Universal Blue is pushing, forget what it's called.

[โ€“] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's unlikely. It's far more likely that they are at the top simply because they are more popular.

The only exception to this rule is the higher end 13th/14th gen Intel chips, which really do have a crashing problem.

[โ€“] nobody_1677@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

My real surprise is that this supports Linux and more specifically Wayland.