Hacker News: kombine

New comment by kombine in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

kombine — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:26:41 +0000

Same, I used C-a for a while until I found out its default mapping is jumping to the beginning of the line so I rebound tmux prefix to C-Space. Now my only problem is on a few servers where I haven't copied my dotfiles.

New comment by kombine in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

kombine — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:48:50 +0000

I have RX 6700XT, damn. AMD is shooting themselves in the foot

New comment by kombine in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

kombine — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:20:53 +0000

This is a great app but it highlights just how insane it is to use apple products where you have to pay a subscription fee for the 3rd party software that provides the basic OS functionality. With KDE Plasma I don't feel the need to install any additional plugins - everything is built-in, coherent and configurable to your liking.

New comment by kombine in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

kombine — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:32:55 +0000

That's a strange argument. Open source software including Plasma Mobile is developed by volunteers who choose to spend their time on a given project. I am quite happy with the pace of Plasma Desktop and the progress made in the past 3 years on its 6th iteration.

New comment by kombine in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

kombine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:18:09 +0000

I've worked in academia for years (in computer vision labs) and I can confidently say that PowerPoint is the best tool to prepare research presentations.

New comment by kombine in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

kombine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:52:13 +0000

This is great! Any plans to add spreadsheets to the suite?

New comment by kombine in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

kombine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:48:02 +0000

Actually, it's the exact opposite. There is really no alternative to PowerPoint on Linux, unfortunately. I'm saying this as someone who's used Linux for 20 years now.

New comment by kombine in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

kombine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:23 +0000

I apologise for not being very clear, it's on all of us - including myself.

New comment by kombine in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

kombine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:15:01 +0000

Poor mother Earth, this race is unsustainable. In order to satiate guys like geohot we are pillaging the natural resources, destroying ecosystems, fucking up the climate.

New comment by kombine in "FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD"

kombine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:48:56 +0000

I agree. Linux has a wealth of hardware drivers and the time would be better spent on a translation layer or do it via running a VM or even using LLMs to port the drivers over to FreeBSD en masse. That way BSD team can focus on their unique strengths.

New comment by kombine in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

kombine — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:21:15 +0000

I remember I was trying to learn GUI programming in late 2000s. I took an attempt at MFC but no matter how hard I tried, it just didn't make any sense. Then I found out about Qt 4 and it felt like magic immediately. I ended up working as a professional Qt software developer for 3 years.

Fast forward to now, and KDE Plasma is state of the art Linux desktop that I've been daily driving for years. It's also built on Qt.

New comment by kombine in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"

kombine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:34:26 +0000

> In a "decompilation" approach the game logic is converted (using a decompiler, like IDA or Ghidra's) back into something which resembles the original source code to the game itself, and the source code is usually hand analyzed, marked up, rewritten, and then ported across platforms

There definitely is a lot of scope to apply LLMs here

New comment by kombine in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

kombine — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:09:43 +0000

It's not just the single distro, but single Desktop Environment upon which app and ecosystem developers will standardise. I'm glad that the latest generation of gaming distros are converging on Plasma.

New comment by kombine in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

kombine — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:33:11 +0000

I'd ask it to rewrite Claude code in Rust, but it's creator apparently wrote a book on Typescript..

New comment by kombine in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

kombine — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:51:53 +0000

I was given the latest MacBook Pro at my new job not long ago, but I forced them to exchange it for Alan HP laptop just so I could use Linux on it. Unfortunately it's Ubuntu and not Plasma, but even so I'm happy I don't have to use Apple's software.

New comment by kombine in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

kombine — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:17:11 +0000

Majority of the community does not care about XLibre or its developers. They are free to work on whatever they want, but the ship has sailed and no one is coming back to X11 except some fringe groups which always exist.

New comment by kombine in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

kombine — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:19:17 +0000

I've been running Plasma Desktop for years and had to put up with graphical glitches in its X11 iteration. I switched to Wayland to years ago when Plasma 6 was released and all the glitches were gone. Additionally, overall snappiness and responsiveness of the desktop and window management improved markedly, I felt like a got a new computer. Granted, I had to acquire an AMD GPU for this transition but it was well worth it.

New comment by kombine in "Why I love FreeBSD"

kombine — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:28:01 +0000

I've never used FreeBSD and I appreciate the appeal, but to me the most exciting ideas in OS space are being developed within Nix/Guix projects. I am putting up a NixOS-based homelab server right now. Does FreeBSD have anything remotely similar?

New comment by kombine in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

kombine — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:00:29 +0000

I've been using OpenSUSE on my home PC for the past 3 years - it is a really solid Linux distribution and I rarely had any problems.

New comment by kombine in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

kombine — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:02 +0000

The only question remains, why our community (programmers and scientists) continues funding this completely voluntarily?