CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

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.

this is what it looks like for me, https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png

The ncurses CLI version looks great.

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.

Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point for development.

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.

That's just the theme the author is running. If you use a use a standard theme, you'll get a higher contrast text color.

From their wiki: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/04c2219de0884fc8e6bf4d264...

The UI is pretty much a copy of CPU-Z's UI. The color scheme comes from the theme and you can use any theme you like, you don't have to use what the author uses.

Like others said, it depends on your theme. Here is what it looks like on my old thinkpad running gnome 48 with light mode theme: https://i.imgur.com/HLZ120w.png

It's actually not bad imo.

cpu-x tries their best to look like their windows precursor, cpu-z…

> 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.

In fact, Linux generally offers many more affordances for adjusting the appearance of the UI, especially in comparison to Windows and Mac. If you don't like way your system looks, you can change your UI theme settings, where corresponding options on the proprietary OSes are much more limited.

> 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,

Welcome to Windows.

But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

My friends keep telling me android is better because it offers so much more customization, and I keep telling them I don't want to customize, I just want it to be nice by default, and to me iOS is, so that is a selling point for me.

If you compare the screenshots on CPU-Z's website and the ones here, I think you can see that while similar, CPU-Z is more "polished". That's the point I was trying to make.

It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

The comment about the colors was based on the screenshots they have on the website, but based on your and other comments here, I can see that it's based on the theme we use use. That's why the AMD logo probably shouldn't be black with a transparent background as then it's hard to see the logo if you're using a dark theme.

Is this a huuuuge deal? Nope. But the programs are just not as polished as they could be.

And it looks like CPU-Z, which I'm fine with. It's just not as polished.

For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the borders of their box. On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text. Black AMD logo with transparent background? That won't work very well with a dark background.

Small things, inconsistencies, etc, are more common (but not exclusive) with open source/linux stuff. That's what I was trying to point out.

Yes, it's not a problem exclusive to Linux or open source, but it's more common on Linux than it is, say, on MacOS.

These options just serve different needs. It's not that one way is right and the other is wrong, it depends on one own's preferences. I'm in the Android and Linux camp in part for the reason your friend says (but there's more), however I believe that everyone should just use what they like best. I would still suggest someone that never used a Linux distro to give it a try, but I don't go further than this.

> But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

That's why software development and distribution are two different concepts in the Linux world. The core software is fully customizable, but people who want preconfigured out-of-the-box experiences can choose a distro that is largely defined by its configuration choices.

> It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

CPU-Z also does not have padding around the text, it just has a different font, but in the screenshot at techpowerup[0] you can see that, e.g., the "y" in "MBytes" down right is touching (clipped) by the container box and the instruction flags also touch the left side of the box.

It is just that the font in CPU-Z is much smaller than the font used in the screenshots.

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/download/cpu-z/