• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    69·
    1 year ago

    *Badly outdated Chrome with a bunch of critical vulnerabilities.

    Don’t forget every Electron app comes with its own Chrome.

    • rdri@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Steam is using CEF v85 (not Electron but still). Should have gone “please be aware to not visit even slightly shady websites until we update it” but instead went “oh you must like security, so we announce that we will drop Windows 7/8 support in half a year (because CEF Microsoft doesn’t support it anymore) so you could play your games more securely”.

          • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’m using and comfortable with Wayland, particularly Hyprland, that too on an Nvidia card.

            It’s not perfect, but for me it feels way better than X.

              • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
                1·
                11 months ago

                I currently configure Hyprland on a laptop that is not used for video editing or excessive YouTube usage or gaming or multimedia.

                Interesting, could you tell me what sort of glitches you encounter when you do these in Hyprland? I’m assuming you’re an Nvidia user like me.

                Most gaming issues I’ve encountered were solved by simply running all games on Gamescope…which is ironic because gamescope is used for running X programs inside a wayland container but whatevs, if it works it works.

                • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  Yep, Nvidia.

                  Kdenlive was unusable due to he UI flickering and randomly showing massive black and white bars. It was actually so bad, that it for some reason ruined my configuration and I had to re-setup it under X11 when I switched back.

                  YouTube video ran noticeably worse than on X11. micro lags and overall worse picture quality.

                  I also was not able to get OBS working. Despite everything being set up as in the instructions it did not find any screens or windows to record.

        • Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know why but you comment reminded me that I haven’t updated in a week 💀

          I use gentoo on a laptop so I have 4 makeopts jobs only.

          • technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Ow. I didn’t use gentoo until I had good enough hardware that updates wouldn’t take 2 days to finish. I used arch or freebsd when I only had a laptop available.

            • Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              1 year ago

              Surprisingly, it only takes a couple of minutes. Except if I have to update firefox or nodejs or clang or llvm or gcc, those take 4 hour minimum and it’s worse when they all have to update at the same time. It’s spring where I live and I don’t want to know what will happen to my laptop when i try to update on summer.

    • gronjo45@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I want to get better at using TUIs and all the lot of lighter-weight software, but I’ve quite frankly been too stupid to learn it.

      I downloaded Gentoo onto an old Chromebook with the Mr Chromebox script. Currently am trying to make it into a sandbox for me to learn more about how init systems, compilers, and other lower level OS details.

      Other than reading the Wikis, are there any projects that you’d suggest to increase one’s ability in those realms? Thanks!

      • technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Really what got me to learn to use the terminal more was downloading systems without tons of gui apps. Most base systems will be like that. In general my only gui apps are a file browser, web browser, and audio tools. Debian, arch, gentoo, nix. Avoid stuff like mint or endeavour if you want to force yourself into learning the terminal. The more you use it, the better you’ll get. Using gui apps isn’t bad, sometimes it just works better for specific actions. But knowing how to use the terminal helps for when nothing else works.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It is not clear from this pictures whether these drums are finger size or building size. Need more perspective!

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      gluonjs could be an alternative. IIRC there’s another framework similar to Electron that uses native system WebView for rendering and Rust for interfacing directly with the OS, the name escapes me for the moment though.

      Edit: I remembered the name! It’s Tauri

        • SagXD@lemm.ee
          2·
          11 months ago

          Which is better? Both look promising I want to know which is more lightweight. I am trying to port a electron application to tauri started 2 days ago. I want to make my application fast as possible.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I haven’t done anything with javascript in over 6 years, so I can’t say which is better.

            This comparison might be useful to you. Tauri gives a smaller executable for Windows compared to Neutralino, but slightly larger for Mac and Linux. Also, Tauri’s build times are orders of magnitude longer (5 minutes vs 1 second for Neutralino), I’d like some confirmation on your part if that’s indeed the case. One thing that really caught my attention, however, is how huge a memory hog Neutralino is on Linux, 700MB for an “empty-app-frameless” project!!

            https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

            I’m actually curious in trying these two out myself, especially to see if the tauri build times are that bad, and if neutralino’s RAM usage is so high on linux.