Comment by OJFord
8 days ago
Not really an OS thing, you can get 24 bit 'true' colour on Linux/macOS too depending on term. Alacritty supports it, for example.
8 days ago
Not really an OS thing, you can get 24 bit 'true' colour on Linux/macOS too depending on term. Alacritty supports it, for example.
Apples shipping terminal is drastically featureless in comparison to a lot of third party terminals.
You need support from third party software such as Xorg or Weston. On Windows, it just works.
That's ridiculous, even if you extend third-party to mean 'not bundled', with Linux depending on distro that's just everything except the kernel anyway, it's not some 'oh my god it's not bundled it doesn't just work', that's exactly the way it does work - if you want something you install it.
(And if you don't make such an extension, what, you have no third-party graphics drivers for example?)
Do you think xorg and weston dont support more than 16 colors? You just run a different terminal emulator.
So I need a terminal emulator to see colours? On Windows I just open a window and put colours in it.
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I believe these are 'first party' software when it comes to linux.