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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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Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool touch applications like Krita Gemini and Calligra Gemini died because “fuck that touch trend, fuck QtQuick, GTK forever”. Now we’re stuck with applications that need a touchpad or mouse…

Wut... GTK is one of the very few touch friendly toolkits on *nixen. And neither of those apps were ever GTK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

GTK is one of the very few touch friendly toolkits on *nixen. And neither of those apps were ever GTK.

Of course they were never on GTK because at that time GTK was absolutely useless for anything touch and it didn't really change until libhandy became libadwaita and kinda-sorta became aligned with GTK but is also not part of GTK proper. Gimp is not touch-friendly. Modern Krita somewhat is, Krita Gemini totally was.