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yes, let us use all of the DPIs to draw monochromatic rectangles
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Progressive JPEG posted:id like my linux to look like this tia *sigh* ![]() this quasi-BeOS look was really pretty and still looks good 14 years later. You don't need alpha composited effects out the rear end to look nice and I bet this actually used X in a remoteable way too instead of being all like "here's a 60fps stream of bitmaps, splat them on the screen" oh KDE, how far you have fallen.
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its just a clone of CDE
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still looks good 20 years later lol![]()
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Mr Dog posted:*sigh* the "60 fps stream of bitmaps" problem comes from lovely font rendering. in the early 2000s there were two competing methods to render TTF: the Sun way and the wrong way. Sun had a server-side service that would allow you to upload a text string, then spit out the bitmap where you wanted it. (xfstt) everyone else had pango. a client-side library that did the same thing, requiring you to upload the output bitmap to the server. not a lot of point to using x11 vector primitives or what have you to draw gui elements when you're just going to upload all the text as bitmaps anyway. i guess xrender at least made THIS part of the problem less bad.
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pram posted:still looks good 20 years later lol i found cde to be pretty OK to use, too it's too bad it was abandoned basically at birth
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lmao all the os screenshots posted so far look like completke poo poo besides the osx one
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lol no. osx server 1.0 was hideous and took all the bad parts of os 9's appearance and none of the good parts
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OSX server fuckin kill you are self
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pram posted:still looks good 20 years later lol i'll always like this because this is what we had at my first NOC jorb RIP
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why the gently caress is the clock a globe or, alternatively, why the gently caress is the globe a clock
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gnome is really attractive i feel really bad for you people using kde
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my stepdads beer posted:gnome is really attractive smdh
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Soldier of Fortran posted:lol no. osx server 1.0 was hideous and took all the bad parts of os 9's appearance and none of the good parts i meant the screenshot of itunes
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it's good by linux standards ![]()
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i found cde to be pretty OK to use, too switching from cde to gnome is what killed solaris imo
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windowmaker was me
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I installed fedora on my laptop and I got some weird font issues but I can't reproduce them anymore maybe the problem was solved when I did a yum update? ![]() oh yeah, I tried to install it with a dvd (I'm a dumbass) and anaconda exploded in the middle of the first try
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it's my first laptop, I tried using the windows 8 that came with it but.... I just can't deal with it ![]() I'm too old for this poo poo
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Symbolic Butt posted:I installed fedora on my laptop and I got some weird font issues but I can't reproduce them anymore Anaconda has never worked for me once.
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is anaconda the installer? it has worked for me every time
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yeah the thing that uses some bespoke scripts with python and tmux it seems bad about dealing with errors, in this case it was probably an error reading a package from the dvd I guess
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weirdly enough the only installer process i ever remember going super smoothly was the gentoo ones
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morel ike NOme
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gentoo installer should look at your rig specs and compile for it there and then the fact that iT DOESNT do this fuckin sucks
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one time i did a stage1 gentoo installation it was not worth it
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like i said, there is no reason a fully gui installer shouldnt be able to do a stage 1 for you
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gentoo is the worst
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has anyone said Kool Desktop Environment yet?
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if you have to suffer a linux, pleas use xfce![]() ![]() goddamn those icons though
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echinopsis posted:like i said, there is no reason a fully gui installer shouldnt be able to do a stage 1 for you if it did anything automatically for you then you wouldn't learn poo poo and it would be just another garbage Linux desktop
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with an automatic installer, you can read the source code of linux to make sure the code isn't gonna hack you, but in addition, you get to read the source code of the installer to make sure it's not injecting anything into the linux code! it's two layers of security checks!
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ahmeni posted:if it did anything automatically for you then you wouldn't learn poo poo and it would be just another garbage Linux desktop yeah but wouldnt it be faster
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Mr. Glass posted:one time i did a stage1 gentoo installation why would you do a stage 1 installation? they don't even support that any more
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focal ischemia posted:why would you do a stage 1 installation? they don't even support that any more This was like in 2005, when it was still a Thing To Do
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raruler posted:if you have to suffer a linux, pleas use xfce xfce is really nice its the only linux distro i used and had a pleasant experience with plus that mouse is hella cute
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my stepdads beer posted:is anaconda the installer? it has worked for me every time yeah same anaconda is good
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notable features of xfce:
it's not an accident that kde shares these features. basically use anything that isn't gnome 3 or that ubuntu trash and you'll come out ahead in life
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:ubuntu trash
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Is there a good desktop environment for linux yet? Last time i checked they all looked like crap. I clicked on the link with Plasma 5 on the last page. Sadly the fonts and the font rendering is laughably lovely, the window buttons and everything else have this really unsettling amateurish look that makes me nauseous. What else is there? I'd like to use the Suse system, but everything looks like crap. What are the window managers which look most like a professional actually worked on them currently?
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