CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/

by nateb2022 • 1 year ago

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thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io

DrillShopper• 1 year ago

It would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make this program useful

DeepYogurt• 1 year ago

Ya. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.

lmz• 1 year 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• 1 year ago

   $ man dmidecode

preisschild• 1 year ago

At least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the "Start daemon" button.

nateb2022• 1 year 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__• 1 year 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?

whalesalad2• 1 year ago

I use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon does.

mmh0000• 1 year ago

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jcelerier2• 1 year ago

When I type all that (if I type them correctly, I do a lot of mistakes so I need simple icons to click sometimes), it really doesn't look like CPU-Z in my terminal, I wonder what I'm doing wrong?

Brian_K_White2• 1 year ago

Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

And I don't think they are even claiming that a graphical presentation of the same info is necessarily wrong or pointless, they are simply saying, that's a lot of c++ for merely wrapping the text in some gui widgets.

It's a fair observation.

I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. Maybe there's more to it and it wouldn't be so simple, but that is what it looks like.

petabyt• 1 year ago

This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.

Brian_K_White2• 1 year ago

There are similar commands for those. It is exactly a bit more than a front end.

izacus• 1 year ago

This is absolutely "Who cares about Dropbox, just use rsync!" level of silly and lazy HN answer :D

tomhow• 1 year ago

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

kcb• 1 year ago

The tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat similar to hwinfo64 on windows.

throw123xz5• 1 year 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.

whalesalad2• 1 year ago

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

wpm• 1 year ago

The ncurses CLI version looks great.

amlib• 1 year 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• 1 year ago

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

XorNot• 1 year 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.

Gormo2• 1 year 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.

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.

throw123xz5• 1 year ago

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.

tvier• 1 year ago

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...

badsectoracula2• 1 year ago

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.

throw123xz5• 1 year ago

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.

neurostimulant• 1 year ago

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.

bdhcuidbebe2• 1 year ago

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

throw123xz5• 1 year ago

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.

hulitu• 1 year ago

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.

throw123xz5• 1 year ago

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.

aforty• 1 year ago

Nice but does it really have to look like the Windows version? Can’t we imagine and have better things?

M95D• 1 year ago

But this is one of the better things!

xet7• 1 year ago

Similar is I-Nex, made with Gambas.

https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/i-nex

https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

unixhero• 1 year ago

It looks great, but on Linux I got used to cat /proc/cpuinfo

CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

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