GNOME 3.37.3 Released With More Features, Code Improvements

[curfew]

always wait for a .1 or .2 , never use a .0 of anything Gnome, you can Guarantee it'll be just as buggy , scroll down the page an you'll see the release schule . https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirtyseven

This FUD and scaremongering. NPCs always tell you to wait for the next minor release. Simply not true.

With Gnome folks they don't always seem to backport fixes to even serious issues once they're done with the first couple of point releases. After that you simply have to wait and pray that the next major release is going to fix your issues. Once I reported an issue with mouse pointer being captured / locked (with 100 % reproduceability) and had to wait for two major releases for it to be fixed. They probably rewrote some code and it was fixed by accident.

[Anvil]

When is 3.38.0 coming out? Any ETA?

always wait for a .1 or .2 , never use a .0 of anything Gnome, you can Guarantee it'll be just as buggy , scroll down the page an you'll see the release schule . https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirtyseven

[curfew]

GJS JavaScript now supports public class fields.

This must obviously mean private class fields as there is no other visibility scope than public before this change. Every class field in JS is public by default.

[tildearrow]

45 MB? Are you crazy? Anything above 1 MB is bloated!!!1! Therefore, KolibriOS ftw.

Somebody port Commodore KERNAL to x86, and then it will just be 24 KB.

[Laughing1]

When is 3.38.0 coming out? Any ETA?

[ehansin]

"Jesus said 'I will rebuild this temple in three days.' I could make a compiler in 3 days."

Seriously, TempleOS FTW!

[andyprough]

pfft, electromechanical computers are where stuff is really optimized

I had to stop what I was doing and watch old videos of Zusie the Relay Computer on youtube. Good stuff - that's real computing. I'll bet Zusie could run Crysis.

[TemplarGR]

You peasants with all your bloated OSes. I am running DOS 1.0 on a 5.25 in disk. It's a little heavy on the RAM for my needs, but still lower than yours.

45 MB? Are you crazy? Anything above 1 MB is bloated!!!1! Therefore, KolibriOS ftw.

Buffers consume lots of memory. For FullHD screen, 24bpp, it's 1920*1080*3B = 6MB per buffer. With double-buffered screen rendering, it's 12MB for screen buffers. However, applications draw to off-screen buffers, and if they are double-buffered, then it's another 12MB for applications. Therefore, it's minimum 24MB for buffers, and that's for single virtual desktop, single screen filled by applications, where applications don't overlay each other, and without any wallpaper.

[starshipeleven]

1.44 mb floppy disks are bloat. What I'd really like is to run my desktop from a small stack of punchcards.

pfft, electromechanical computers are where stuff is really optimized