Comments by "Charlie Kahn" (@charliekahn4205) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. They're not meant for phones. The primary usage is large tablets.
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  2. But then you couldn't call it "looks cute"
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  3. On Windows, the "shell" only runs the desktop icons, background, and taskbar. The native compositor is dwm, and there's no window server at all. Windows is built from the ground up for graphics, so it can just dole out pieces of the framebuffer to applications.
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  4. ​ @RandomGeometryDashStuff you can literally replace it with another shell
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  5. You could do the same with Sawfish and Emacs
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  6. However, autoremove is opt-out, which is infuriating since removing Xfce would remove Xorg as well, even though Xorg is still needed when you have KDE installed.
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  7. So it's more like a Wayland-native Mate or LXDE, or literally every other desktop environment ever?
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  8. The real problem is that there's no standard way of having multiple versions of a program installed at once.
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  9.  @kreuner11  I thought shell32 was just the decorator
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  10. ​ @mathgeniuszach their hardware would be a lot friendlier to Linux if they would support ACPI. As it is, you need a custom build for everything they make.
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  11.  @techgeeknzl  The obvious answer, then, is to use a more comprehensive front-end for a more comprehensive back-end. If the dependency system is more complex, dependency management should be more complex and powerful for the user.
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  12. @ In terms of integration, it beats running GNU userland in an app
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  13. Why should a package manager ever even provide the possibility of uninstalling packages that don't conflict, upon an install command? In fact, a package manager should ideally treat package removal with extreme care, making sure not to auto autoremove unless specifically prompted to. This doesn't have to do with this specific bug, but the fact that this feature shouldn't exist in the first place.
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  14. ​ @Jay-uk8uw MS switched over from DOS in 2000. They just keep the interface this way for familiarity
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  15. UNIX has standard IPC
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  16. Or you could use XQuartz and make it take over the desktop.
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  17.  @florianfelix8295  I do occasionally
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  18.  @mgord9518  Nvidia has actually gotten really good now. They're updating their drivers at a decent pace, they actually have compatibility with things even if they don't like them, and they're making some improvements with their open-source stack. Nouveau is also making significant progress.
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  19.  @marcogenovesi8570  And? X11 has good, sensible APIs that make sense and haven't been broken for decades. A new display system should imo strive to keep this solid foundation and just implement the spec in a radically different way.
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  20.  @rightwingsafetysquad9872  X doesn't depend on Xorg. You can replace it with a different server, or even something that just mimics a server.
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  21. I just don't like the separation that this requires between "system" and "graphics" when most programs aren't used to that. If everything from the ground up is formatted the same way and interfaced in the same secure way, then the system can be as scalable as traditional Unix requires.
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  22. Files on Android have always been terrible. Every app is a separate volume that's locked to just the app's user ID. This makes sense for security, since basically everything phones do is through the web, but it makes transferring data a nightmare.
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  23.  @coarse_snad  it's called unified virtual memory space. Just let the programmer access every address individually. it's insanely insecure, stupidly annoying, and generally bad practice. But you can't truly leak memory.
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  24. ​ @LINMOBnet any tablet that runs Windows should run Linux, more or less. MS requires ACPI and UEFI for Windows on ARM, so you just need to compile.
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  25. @ The thing is that ARM is so much more power-efficient and the features that make x86 "easy" all have nothing to do with the CPU and everything to do with the ROM on the motherboard
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  26. ​ @Fred-f1g it doesn't have to be x86, it just needs a real BIOS
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  27. It's less that and more Linux userland running on the Android kernel build, without any of the actual Android bits
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  28. Freedesktop works because it's optional. Plenty of other standards exist outside of it.
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  29. ​ @PavelShevchuk doesn't Windows still bluescreen if you remove a serial device while it's being accessed?
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  30. Well Linux doesn't necessarily only work because there's Linus at the head, especially since one guy couldn't possibly maintain something that huge full-time. As long as there are dedicated maintainers of any sort, vetting possible contributions that anyone could submit, things should be fine.
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  31. It'll never work because UNIX doesn't force a layout concept, so any standard theme would have to be way larger than anyone has the time to make
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  32. Might as well just shove everything into a container and turn every variable into its own process
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