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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

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170 points nateb2022 | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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throw123xz ◴[07 Jul 25 18:33 UTC] No.44493327[source]▶
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.

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1. bdhcuidbebe ◴[08 Jul 25 06:54 UTC] No.44497715[source]▶
cpu-x tries their best to look like their windows precursor, cpu-z…
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2. throw123xz ◴[08 Jul 25 19:27 UTC] No.44503190[source]▶
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.