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Atemu, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

TL;DR Amazon is building a Linux distro that starts a chromium to run react native apps. Apparently, you need hundreds of people for that.

muelltonne,

TBH Amazon has a whole zoo of devices. Even if they are putting a small team of 2 or 3 people in charge for porting this to each device, they might end up with a few hundred people

NaoPb, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

Nice try Amazon. I’m not falling for it.

KISSmyOS, in Fonts

Whatever is default on the distro I run.
If I see squares with numbers in them somewhere, I install the biggest font metapackage I can find in the repo, which usually fixes it.

MyNameIsRichard, in Fonts
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

I use KDE which has noto sans as its default. I use fira code for my terminal and ide though.

yournamehere, (edited ) in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

lets hope the devices can be rooted and we can have phosh or ubuntumobile or sth. like that flashed

0xtero, in Fonts

I normally design and create my own fonts before I start a new document or open console.
I use Arch Linux, btw.

railsdev,

You code them by hand in the terminal before installing the DE right?

cygnus,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Exactly. Using a GUI is too imprecise; it’s made for plebeians. I enter vector coordinates directly into the terminal.

0xtero,

Preferably by sending signals over serial port and couple of wires.

Maoo, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
@Maoo@hexbear.net avatar

Surely this other monopoly will save us

roo,
@roo@lemmy.one avatar

It’s a new management objective.

sedot, in Fonts

Inter and Fantasque Sans Mono .

Dirk, in Fonts
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

What font do you use?

DejaVu Sans for basically everything. DejaVuSans Mono for things I need a monospace font for. Nerdfonts Symbols for various icons/symbols to show icons in Neovim or Waybar for example.

Vincent, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Great work by Sonny and Tobias. Really happy to hear that more effort will be invested into accessibility, as I feel it's really been lagging over the past couple of years.

barryamelton,

Accesibilty is also key for automated end-to-end tests, too.

ElBarto, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hahahaha cool, Linux with ads and tracking and all the spyware you could ever want.

thanksforallthefish,

So just like android ?

gzrrt,
@gzrrt@kbin.social avatar

Minus the sandboxing and security improvements, apparently

DoucheBagMcSwag,

And no sideloading

TheAnonymouseJoker, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

GNOME is well deserving as the most polished and optimally performant DE. GNOME is so good, Windows 11 copied its workflow, layouts and even the taskbar right-click menu with 23H2.

simple,

and optimally performant DE

Except it’s the worst DE in terms of performance. Using KDE instead of Gnome made a big difference in my weaker laptop.

TheAnonymouseJoker, (edited )
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

GNOME is the best performing modern DE outside of lightweight nice DEs. KDE is by far the worst alongside Deepin. KDE is so crap, I had to turn off all the animations and compositor to bring CPU usage from 70 to 10-15%. This was a stock Debian 12 KDE setup on i5-7200U. GNOME in comparison idles at 1-2%, max 3%. XFCE and LXQt sit around 0.5-1%.

KDE is an absolute mess and is a hobbyist DE in comparison to the professional GNOME.

simple,

GNOME is the best performing modern DE outside of lightweight nice DEs.

This is straight up not true, GNOME is a memory hog and uses almost twice as much as KDE. I’m idling ~4% CPU usage on an i5 7300HQ, which is just barely better than yours. There’s a reason the Steam Deck opted to use KDE and not Gnome.

KDE is an absolute mess and is a hobbyist DE in comparison to the professional GNOME.

As someone who used gnome for two years, hell no. Gnome is trying too hard to be minimalist and is lacking basic features that you have to use extensions for. Extensions which, by the way, break each update and have their own bugs. I also had to use gnome tweaks for basic crap like disabling mouse acceleration. KDE is a much more polished experience for people who actually use computers, but gnome is okay if you’re just looking for something simple that looks smooth.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

GNOME is a memory hog and uses almost twice as much as KDE

It is unfortunate that every GNOME critic lives in 2015, and stick to those unhinged biases.

Steam Deck’s decision to use KDE has nothing to do with performance, but with customisation of UI, which is also why they use custom compiled Arch to modify every nook and corner of what Deck runs.

7300HQ has about 1.7-2x the performance of 7200U, according to PassMark. cpubenchmark.net/…/Intel-i5-7300HQ-vs-Intel-i5-72…

KDE is a much more polished experience for people who actually use computers, but gnome is okay if you’re just looking for something simple that looks smooth.

Its cool and hipster to be delusional, but when things get professional and you want stability and performance, GNOME is unbeatable. Nobody in the real world cares about the fancy one zillion features of KDE outside hipster hobbyists.

hperrin, in Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

Cool. Another OS to avoid.

Cyberbatman,

This is the best description for everyone

franklin, (edited )
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. If it was any company at all except Amazon there would be hope but come on. We’ve all seen what they did to the fire sticks

AbidanYre,

If it was any company at all except Amazon there would be hope

You won’t be saying that in a couple months when Facebook makes their own announcement.

franklin,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah fair, not ANY company

words_number, in Fonts

I use Inter for the UI and SF Mono (from Macos) for terminal and coding.

caesaravgvstvs, in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Sovereignty from whom though??

Turns out, the Germans.

Seems like a cool initiative

twei,

yes, we are quite good at funding foss

pingveno,

Sovereignty as in it is sponsored by or own by a nation-state. Similarly, Norway has a sovereign wealth fund derived from its oil profits.

caesaravgvstvs,

Yes! I just kinda posted it as a rethorical question. I think it’s important to know where the money is really coming from :)

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