Kinda miffed they didn’t include a screenshot of the colors, but I’m guessing the readability will be vastly better!
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I hate it, makes me look much less like a hacker while installing pre-built software from other people
Just switch to green on black. Immediate street cred boost
Just do it on ARM or RISC-V. RISC architecture changes everything.
But it has more green, isn’t that the hacker color?
Just keep “hollywood” running in another terminal at all times.
😂
that is vastly more readable, not only thanks to the colors, but the indentation, new lines, and straightforward section titles are a huge improvement.
And proper package name alignment!
I’m just surprised the purists aren’t all up in arms that this isn’t KISS and that it doesn’t fit in their 80x24 teletype.
… sorry, guess I’m not over that whole systemd “debate”.
I love this change, actually, I’m not a boring-text purist. Proper categorizing of data allows me to spot things at a glance much easier, and I’m all in favor of anything that can improve efficiency and understanding, especially for new folks, so we can improve product adoption.
I love it, but as someone with a red-green colour blind coworker, I always try to use blue for positive feedback, and orange for negative, as its better for representation for most colourblind types.
That’s a great callout, and something we should be considering more often
I wish FreeDesktop would standardize CLIs taking their application colours from the user theme so that colourblindness is catered for.
I’m using sid and i’m loving thia change. It’s an obvious visual cue to check if i’m about to remove something important like my whole desktop environment lol
I didn’t know I needed multi-coloured terminal text until I saw the 2nd image. It looks so much more readable!
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It’s not only more readable because of the color, they also rearranged everything.
Install and run “btop”.
You could scroll down to the screenshots on the GitHub page, but I had a friend recommend btop to me and seeing it for the first time running on my own machine was an experience. Highly recommend.
Looks like how zypper does it
looks splendid :3
There are some screenshots in this article:
Nala is a much nicer frontend for apt, which includes additional features like parallel downloads
I have heard of Nala before but have never actually taken the time to install it. Based on your comment, I just checked it out on one of the Debian 12 systems I run. Turns out it was right in the repos.
Wow. So good. I cannot believe it took me this long. Jealous of it on the Arch installs now.
I installed it on Ubuntu 22.04 as well but it was not there when I searched. I had to add the jammy-backports repo first.
Thank you for the push.
10 year old bug?
What are they talking about, that bug report is from 2014‽
… Fuck
Not one single screen shot.
I’m using nala for some time now, it is pretty 😀 (it is a frontend for apt, with colours, history, undo, etc)
If you’re anything like me and find coloured text is often unreadable in a terminal window, here’s the list of how to address the issue:
Agreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
Probably it will have an option --no-color or something as well as config. Somebody will ask for it for a specific niche use case and it might not be hard to implement within apt so they add it
It’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
Apt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
So far almost any Linux software I have used and supports colored output automatically turns off coloring if it detects that stdout is not a terminal.
And this is what Debian users will be doing more often : Installing, uninstalling and installing software just because APT and nala is so pretty and colorful. It adds a whole new flavor to the art of Procrastination 😁
Wait, when does this drop for Bookworm 12 stable branch? This looks kinky.
Stable means unchanging, so probably never. If it’s just cosmetic with no new functionality, maybe, but usually not.
When Debian 12 becomes Debian 13. It says in the article.
It won’t
Cool now do parallel downloads and I’ll quit using Nala
Y’all need Nala. Debian should just make it their default and call it a day.
Nala is too cool but kinda messy if you resize terminal. It puts things in box hsing unicode characters and nake it look like some gui. Also nala is using python-apt and it also require apt. This brings out of the box ecperience with apt itself
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Take that snap!
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