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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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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably because it's more efficient. GPUs are designed to render things, which editors do. In a text editor, you're effectively rendering fonts over a fixed background, which I assume is pretty efficient using the GPU.

We're not talking about crazy 3D effects here.

Yay to battery savings!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shouldn't the DE/Window Manager be handling that? Seems like doing it on a window by window basis would be inefficient (and look inconsistent).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s a totally unrelated part of the stack. These days you just have a compositor that combines the output of applications.

The model of out of process rendering in Xorg was done pre-2000s but GPUs became the norm and don’t work well this way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The model of out of process rendering in Xorg was done pre-2000s but GPUs became the norm and don’t work well this way.

Thats where we get into explicit and implicit sync right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also very unrelated, that’s about graphics apis like opengl.

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Synchronization

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The job of the window manager is to manage windows and very little else. Font rendering is done by the widget toolkit, usually via freetype/harfbuzz.