How OS

Pretty much Qt. You can learn how different OSes have different way.

However, modern GUI programming is happening on the web and mobile phones. React is popular, but it’s too high level and their XML-based approach is horrifically designed. Swift UI is nice, but it’s Apple-only. Flutter is a good middle ground, but its Desktop capability is limited. You’re going to shoot on your own foot several times.

NotSUSE

Careful, Germans take it seriously.

At this point I’m not expert enough to explain more details. You can check font renderers.

Below is what’s in my mind but it’s just a guess.

In typical PC architectures you have IO between the storage and the RAM, and then there’s the copying from the RAM to the VRAM, and editors maybe also want copying from the VRAM to RAM for decoration purposes etc.

AFAIK it’s the copy cost for the memory. GPU makes sense only when the hardware allows this copy to go away. Generally, desktop PCs don’t have such specialized hardware.

GPU-accelerated renderer.

There’s a reason why GUIs don’t render fonts in the GPU.

Poor workflow. Switching applications is horrible if you have 4 windows open in one desktop. Even gnome is far better at that.

You write like one can do stuff on Linux with one command.

However, Linux enthusiasts simultaneously tell the user to spend time troubleshooting problems on their own, and say that’s a given.

It’s a double standard I see on the web.

After I left I noticed how much of my Reddit feed was and is garbage. Most are meaningless memes. That’s after removing meme subs.

Agreed. If flatpak can continue to gain more control around GUI and hardware, I would finally be able to hop on the wagon completely.

Kinoite shows the future of noob Linux I think, but it’s still new and has some rough edges. I installed it on an ARM and couldn’t make it wake up from sleep.

I prefer Fedora. I think Fedora lost the war on easy Linux branding to Ubuntu 15 years ago.

Ah, very good point! If we all had the dedication for UX like you do, Linux would be so so so perfect.

“Verified” doesn’t mean too much to privacy advocates. There have been incidents. I indeed want to check what my app is going to access before installing it.

As a professor I have to say… the site admin skipped the class that taught them to include always the color bar.

The question now is, when will they remove it?

Why are so many Linux posts about “Why Linux” these days? We already use Linux. Isn’t there news on Linux anymore or what?

My experience is that nix package configs are tested on NixOS. I used it on other OSes, and I easily encountered misconfigurations and such. The problem is that they are understaffed.

I ended up combining a few package managers due to this, but I’d have preferred to use another manager solely.

My point is, sacrifices can be made. Even professionals can do it.

You mean like, they risk losing their job, reducing their profits significantly during the training period, and then likely there are a few algorithms that don’t exist in Krita, and most are slower with less optimization. If Adobe releases a new killer feature those professionals who transitioned to OSS are fucked, and also they sacrifice a significant of time on additional training for using Linux, replacing their professional NVIDIA GPUs, tweaks wayland, then they spend time on fixing boot problems, their printers don’t work anymore, they have compatibility issues with everything Adobe and MS Office, lose business competitions just because their files can’t be opened by Windows, etc. etc. I’ll trust you Linux-is-easy people after you converted a few Windows / Apple / Adobe-dependent enterprise businesses.

Maybe I upped the game too much when I decided to run Kinoite on Pi…