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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why is Gnome fractional scaling 1.7518248558044434 instead of 1.75? (unix.stackexchange.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Closer to 50/50, and other parts of the GNOME desktop like mutter, are largely C. Saying the entire GNOME desktop is mostly JS is silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one here said GNOME desktop is mostly JS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're right, they said the desktop shell, which is still incorrect, but I guess a little less incorrect. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, I started this thread saying it runs on JavaScript, and I mean that they need JS for most of the interactions with the desktop, like gesture or mouse events. 😞 Even if most of the code is C, we all know we need to write much many lines of code of C to do the same with JS, so most of the logics on GNOME is computed by JS. We need some rust here. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀