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		pcwalton on Jan 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Window System X (1984) > If any, I prefer plan9/9front's drawterm/cpu which runs circles over Unix/Linux VNC and RDP. By a huge mile. How can this [1] code possibly be faster than modern hardware accelerated blitting? I don't see a line of SIMD in there. [1]: https://github.com/9fans/drawterm/blob/master/libmemdraw/dra...

anthk on Jan 18, 2022 [–]

Call me odd, but 9front on native machines looks smoother than most composited desktops here.

jcelerier on Jan 18, 2022 | [–]

composited WMs are so frustrating to use when you're used to non-composited

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