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gnull

Is there any reason to prefer Darktile over Alacritty?

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Nope. Both will probably fail when gl rendering is not available for whatever reason.

Just tried to run alacritty:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4af49886c7c9854d.png

Personally, I'd want something that keeps working even if I don't reboot immediately after a system update, especially for something as key as a terminal emulator.

That'd be the fault of Nvidia proprietary drivers (which are regularly known to cause lot of annoying problems+issues like that across the board) as systems without a hardware GPU can still normally create OpenGL contexts.

The day that driver mess is cleaned up a shit ton of problems will disappear overnight.

Yes, I wish I didn't buy nvidia. Their stupid requirement to have exact same version for client/driver is so annoying.

Not an option to buy anything else for a sane price at the moment sadly, due to crypto craze. ;)

You can force alacritty to use a software renderer by setting the env variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Alacritty#Requires_hardware...

It's not as simple:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/4a76e64deddee2f5.png

Since darktile is written in go, it's easier to test drive and potentially package.

   go run github.com/liamg/darktile/cmd/darktile@latest

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