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schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color

www.theregister.com

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Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color

www.theregister.com

schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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2.9 gives a taste of what's to come
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    Kinda miffed they didn’t include a screenshot of the colors, but I’m guessing the readability will be vastly better!

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        I hate it, makes me look much less like a hacker while installing pre-built software from other people

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          Just switch to green on black. Immediate street cred boost

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            computer people have upvotes not street cred

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          Just do it on ARM or RISC-V. RISC architecture changes everything.

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          But it has more green, isn’t that the hacker color?

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          Just keep “hollywood” running in another terminal at all times.

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          😂

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        that is vastly more readable, not only thanks to the colors, but the indentation, new lines, and straightforward section titles are a huge improvement.

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          And proper package name alignment!

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          I’m just surprised the purists aren’t all up in arms that this isn’t KISS and that it doesn’t fit in their 80x24 teletype.

          … sorry, guess I’m not over that whole systemd “debate”.

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        I love this change, actually, I’m not a boring-text purist. Proper categorizing of data allows me to spot things at a glance much easier, and I’m all in favor of anything that can improve efficiency and understanding, especially for new folks, so we can improve product adoption.

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          I love it, but as someone with a red-green colour blind coworker, I always try to use blue for positive feedback, and orange for negative, as its better for representation for most colourblind types.

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            I wish FreeDesktop would standardize CLIs taking their application colours from the user theme so that colourblindness is catered for.

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            That’s a great callout, and something we should be considering more often

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          I’m using sid and i’m loving thia change. It’s an obvious visual cue to check if i’m about to remove something important like my whole desktop environment lol

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        I didn’t know I needed multi-coloured terminal text until I saw the 2nd image. It looks so much more readable!

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          It’s not only more readable because of the color, they also rearranged everything.

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          Install and run “btop”.

          You could scroll down to the screenshots on the GitHub page, but I had a friend recommend btop to me and seeing it for the first time running on my own machine was an experience. Highly recommend.

          https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

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        Looks like how zypper does it

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        looks splendid :3

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      There are some screenshots in this article:

      https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.9-Released

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