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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/
109•nateb2022•8h ago

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DrillShopper•6h ago
It would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make this program useful
DeepYogurt•5h ago
Ya. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.
lmz•1h ago
I wouldn't read too deeply into that. I'm pretty sure cpu-z bundles a driver that is unpacked and installed at runtime (search for 'cpuz sys')
dmitrygr•5h ago

   $ man dmidecode
preisschild•5h ago
At least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the "Start daemon" button.
nateb2022•4h ago
c.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki...

the daemon separates userspace from root domain, and ensures that the code running with root privileges is very small and easily auditable

__turbobrew__•19m ago
Maybe I am dumb, but why does it have to be a daemon? Why not have the user process fork off the privileged binary to collect data and return the results through stdout?
whalesalad•3h ago
I use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon does.
kcb•5h ago
The tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat similar to hwinfo64 on windows.
throw123xz•4h ago
Very nice.

On a side note, and not wanting to criticize the people that spend their time working on something like this, that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background, the padding around the text inside boxes...

I feel bad saying this when it's a free tool, but it's a shame that open source projects struggle so much with UI stuff.

whalesalad•3h ago
this is what it looks like for me, https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png
wpm•3h ago
The ncurses CLI version looks great.
amlib•3h ago
MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made regarding UI/UX best practices and GNOME even has a great HIG that they follow strictly on their stuff, you can't even say that regarding Microsoft own software anymore.

bb88•1h ago
Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point for development.
XorNot•43m ago
I just people to do menu bars on desktop again.

Add the Jetbrains search anywhere function if you really just innovate.

No more Hamburger menus.

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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

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