I'm asking the same question!

No doubt the very loudly opinionated not-web-dev community, who have So Much To Say about web devs and web tech, have produced an uncontroversial, perfect layout system, styling system, and language to produce the replacement for this awful web tech. Where is it? What is it? Please provide (the better version of) a hyperlink to the docs.

I think the argument lies in its flexibility and versatility (regardless of it being the most efficient or effective tool for this one particular task).

Duct tape is awesome for the same reason -- even though there are several effective use cases for duct tape where a different tool would technically be "better" for the job.

But you don't choose CSS, it's the only tool in the toolbox. As long as you stick to the Web.

I was writing CSS +20 years ago and it's never been better.

What kind of system would you propose (or do you envision) for applying visual styling to HTML markup in modern web pages today?

You can keep it high level but your comment makes me think you have something in mind, and I'm honestly curious.

I am not sure what a purpose-built tool would look like, but the CSS-like language you see in UI frameworks like GTK is tailored for styling actual UI's.

In CSS on the web, just centering a div has historically been a problem. We have flexbox now, but what if CSS was designed with our current needs from the get-go?

People keep reinventing 'better' styling tools, and we ends up with more bloat and more magic, while static UIs definately stay simpel.

compared to old css, it just keeps getting better

Afaik driver support is very complete on Linux. You often see Arc GPUs used in media transcoding workloads for that reason.

We can all agree that Intel absolutely nailed it with the media encoding on these things. A nice to have for many, vital for others.

quicksync has been around for ages its surprising to me that other platorms have not adopted this. no reason a modern cpu can't transcode video.

Quicksync doesn't do its work on the CPU, it does the work on the integrated GPU. Their processors that did not have on-board graphics did not have Quicksync support. See their P series and many of their Xeon parts which do not carry Quicksync support, while the versions with integrated graphics do have it.

AMD chips that have integrated GPUs (their APU series of chips) often do have support for hardware video encoders. Because, once again, its a function of the GPU and not the CPU.

This is kind of in line with the story, where amateur astronomers data from around the world is used to test a hypothesis.

I am currently reading the book.

Why? I am currently reading the book as well, and I even though I am not a scientist I feel like I am finding small technical/scientific mistakes that shouldn't have had to be there.

> Like it or not, the business world runs on Office.

Maybe if EU requires local governments to use LibreOffice (or other OSS alternatives like MijnBureau) companies will follow.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/who-uses-libreoffice/

https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/

I personally believe we should just compile games statically. Problem solved, right?

Though like the article mentions, fsync doesn't work out of the box (requiring kernel patches).

Cool! Tiled wallpapers are underrated. They will always work, regardless of resolution and attached monitors.

Another simple GTK4 app for the ecosystem, nice.

In case anyone is wondering, Dune3D as a flatpak is about 33mb. FreeCAD is 354mb. I enjoy having simple solutions that get simple things done. Will definitely give Dune3D a try.