9 mo. ago • 95%

Year of the Diagonal Linux Desktop, y'all

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The steam deck does have a gyroscope for sensing rotation... Just saying.

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- That feature has always been annoying to me, even on phones. I always turn it off because "I" will control whether my screen rotates or not. Maybe sometimes I don't want it to rotate when I turn the phone (like when I'm viewing building plans at work and want to orient the screen with how I'm looking at the building I'm standing in).
  
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  Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.
  
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  I hate controlling screen rotation based off it. It's great in controllers for aiming though.
  
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  On Samsung devices you can go into settings and add a "routine" under Modes And Routines that automatically enables auto rotate for certain apps, and disables it when you leave the apps.
  
  Alternatively I believe you can do the same if you have a license for Tasker.
  
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- Give me a stabilized image on a spinning display.
  
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  a man of class,
  
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- 😖
  
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lmftfy

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I’m just sitting here patiently waiting for hexagonal displays.

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- Hexagons are the bestagons.
  
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- If we could get edge-to-edge displays, hexagonal panels with a spherical radius will be the next big thing for battle stations.
  
  (By spherical, I mean its curved so it can be tiled into a sphere.)
  
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  Let's go one step further and build a monitor orb with a chair in the center.
  
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- What about a pyramid tablet?
  
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  Only if I also get a dodecahedral phone.
  
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- https://imgur.com/a/btPBQTt
  
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- Needs to be circular to maximize efficiency
  
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Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio

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- Stonks.
  
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-22° so cool

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Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

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This truly is the landlord tipping of linux memes

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https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing

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- An article that links to a Tweet that links to a blog post with the actual useful information.
  They truly Human Centipede'd this one
  
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- & BSD
  
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Only for Xorg. Wayland guys need to wait a bit :)

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Any time some obscure Linux feature is mentioned I see this xkcd comic in my mind: https://xkcd.com/619/

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- Well, Flash is now dead so nobody actually does that anymore.
  
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I've got two vertical monitors on either side of my one large horizontal monitor right now and I am loving it

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- The 'ol tie fighter layout, nice
  
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