[HN Gopher] CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux
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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux
Author : nateb2022
Score : 112 points
Date : 2025-07-07 13:52 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| DrillShopper wrote:
| It would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make
| this program useful
| DeepYogurt wrote:
| Ya. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.
| lmz wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| $ man dmidecode
| preisschild wrote:
| At least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the
| "Start daemon" button.
| nateb2022 wrote:
| 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__ wrote:
| 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?
| unaindz wrote:
| Forking a process is not free and starting one every
| hundred of a millisecond* seems very expensive. *I'm do not
| know which frequency it updates the data but it's usually 1
| sec to 0.1 sec.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon
| does.
| kcb wrote:
| The tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat
| similar to hwinfo64 on windows.
| throw123xz wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| this is what it looks like for me,
| https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png
| wpm wrote:
| The ncurses CLI version looks great.
| amlib wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point
| for development.
| XorNot wrote:
| 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.
| tvier wrote:
| 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...
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