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Based sagintou, were you the person to recommend me Guix and Emacs on nanochan?

>>47159 Yep, that was me. I'm currently running Guix alongside Void.

>>47157 I dig the pape and the doll, but that font looks way too tall. Try unifont for your top bar, it looks great with point size set to 12.

>>47160 come back

boring rice just wanted to show off this cool script called ytfzf

how come all these desktops look exactly the same but with perhaps a different color scheme? What's the point then?

What anime is bottom right, Lain?

>>47157 Ericanon recommended me to dualboot to avoid distractions but I just ended up liking this desktop more than the other. I had Gentoo with dwm and other minimalist software for general stuff and installed Artix with cinnamon and a lot of bloated software alongside to do work. But you like it don't you?

>>47256 Based desktop. Looks very nice.

>>46950 it's my own cross-platform one, so i can still use some of my programs when i need to use windows

Kay' perverts hadn't upgraded to Linux yet. Still don't know of a good distro other than Gentoo, and that soykaf's too confusing.

>>47483 I don't like to soykaf on peoples distros, but you obviously have no shame if you are posting FUR on top of Winblows. You don't even have to use a hard to install distro. No one installs Gentoo at first. Everyone either does Ubuntu, or maybe even the free software version Trisquel. You could use Debian even, there is no excuse to sodomize the good name of your installed software with a Windows operating system. And what the fuarrrk are SMAs? This is bait. I'm literally hyperventilating because you would waste good CPU cycles on this nonsense. Whats sick is you're prob into those weird animal noises. You could have at least tried to make the argument that "b.b..but I need photoshop" and I would have given you the pass, but you are too proud and shamelessly a fury boi. Good day sir.

>>47483 8 hours of Installing Gentoo Visualization - Training [Binaural] Sigma to Omega Transitive Waves

>>47363 What DAW are you using? Looks easier to understand than some of the things I've messed with.

>>47256 Wallpaper source please. Thanks in advance lainon.

>>47483 https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=b0W9cSYhC7A sage for offtopic attached file

>>47494 These links never work for me.

Old picture on my desktop with icewm. Currently using fluxbox but not home rn. Other pic is my macbook

>>47363 My favorite poster in my favorite thread. Hey, would anybody believe me if I told you that belongs to Nishimura Hiroyuki?

>>47508 Ask him to post that pape

>>47488 it's muse-sequencer imo the best free software daw for now if you want to work with midi

>>47157 It's nothing too special, but it's mine.

>>47517 Not him but I have it too.

>>47545 On behalf of my soykafty box running debian with stock blackbox DE, thanks.

>>47157 Suigintou is lovely

>>47496 you're probably using mobile web

nothing special.. But I like my desktop.

>>47157 why do people use anything other than gnome?

>>47758 gnome just werks

>>47758 No idea. Boring basic GNOME setup is so comfy.

>>47760 Now this is based. I tried to use Fedora but I'm too used to the AUR and pacman.

>>47762 Every user space software is Flatpak anyway and few terminal utils that aren't are always there in every distro's repos with the same names since beginning of Linux desktop, other stuff you have to install from Git/Web anyway. Not that there is any reason to switch from Arch to Fedora that I can think of.

>>47762 I just see Fedora as something fairly close to upstream, regularly updated but stable and professional enough to be a daily workhorse.

I do not have my fluxbox setup because on trip! Here is my macOS desktop desu! >>47162 calming colors! >>47363 looks cool, what is the program on the right? >>47527 neat blur >>47651 Is this gnome or a heavily tweaked? >>47755 Nice pape, how is openbsd? is it noticably slow on a crappy machine? should I just try freebsd instead? >>47760 cozy! you should try making the dock less round maybe (ironic considering my desktop has the ugly rounded dock, rounded stuff looks ugly to me)

>>47767 Dash to dock has that option but I think I prefer default. The top bar, screen previews in overview all are rounded a a bit so it fits better. I'm always jealous of proper global menu support on Mac's.

>>47767 I'm >>47651 I only use bspwm with polybar with the elementaryos panel theme and tweaked to my liking

>>47768 Well I really meant less rounded, but looks like there isn't an option to control that. >I'm always jealous of proper global menu support on Mac's. It's pretty neat yeah, in dark theme it looks super good but on light theme it looks meh. KDE sort of has it but some programs don't comply. Although I think that the global menu on macOS is tied to the current running program (i'm not kidding), so if it freezes, you can only open the items on the right side (battery, clock, etc), but clicking on any items on the left will freeze. This even applies to the Apple menu, so you have to switch applications to open apple menu > force quit, lmao kino design apple. Also I absolutely despise the single "global" menu in Gnome, it's super fuarrrking weird and it's underused... should really be reworked. >>47769 Oh ok, neat. I use Fluxbox on my desktop (I'm on a trip, so that's why I posted macOS, not near my desktop rn), but I heard bspwm is very nice. I'm not a fan of manual tiling so if I want to try auto-tiling (binary spaced) then i'll look at it again

>>47767 >what is the program on the right? it's a booru client i made, recently working on local browsing capability also supports windows xp, it's very important

>>47791 very cute and cool program. any plans to make it available to others some day? in any case, good work and good luck!

>>47792 it's very incomplete but i already made the windows build in the pic available at https://files.catbox.moe/vy6trk.zip source isn't going to be out anytime soon, since it's not intended to be used by anyone else, it won't work without lots of manual fiddling

posting desktop fifth time still not believing a fat pale cock can cause that much of a butt hurt

>>47791 Interesting, reminds me a bit of hydrus. Nice project.

Not the best dwm out there, am probably going to improve on some things in the future. Messing with dmenu has been fun though (scripting confirmation prompts and replacements for options generally acessible with drop-down menus, such as changing volume), also I wanted to avoid using polybar.

>>47812 Never knew I wanted a swamp themed rice until now

>>47844 Wow, I had no idea Xoblite was still around. I thought it and all the other Windows *boxes died out with XP. Is it still able to skin window decorations or has 10 made that impossible?

Not perfect but I like it

>>47755 would you mind sharing your wallpaper? It's hella nice

>>47759 What firefox extension do you use for the tabs to look like that?

>>47955 I forgot to mention you

>>47157 Im still stuck on Windows 95

>>47981 Windows 95 *theme*, I am very tired

>>47981 Me too anon. Dont ever really plan on changing.

>>47960 right click and pin tab

>>47492 Totally missed this. I'm sorry if I'm late with replying. Here you go king.

>>47256 Every purple-ish cinnamon desktop I have seen has alwaays looked good, and this is no exception. Nice work anon

I'm not completely finished with it, but I'm pretty proud of what i did so far

can we post from false.i2p...

Fedora w/ xfce4 is just worked well

>>47483 The most based desktop I've seen on lainchan. Keep it going big bad bear.

I used to use Linux as a daily driver, however university has strict policies about online exams. Because of that had to switch to Windows. I mean, just werks i guess==

>>48118 Thank you Anon <3

Go to Inspirobot. It outputs a lot of absurdly meaningfull stuff over random pics. Makes for a fast collection of great wallpapers.

>>48355 No problem Anon <3

Still working on it. Trying out wayland again...

well i am using a very bloated soykafty leenox distro rn as this laptop only has support for this one. but here is my soykafty desktop

>>47157 dwm is very comfy

>>48550 god damn, am i like the only idiot who can't manage to setup wms'?

>>48552 Download dwm, install whatever patches you want (you will need to manually edit config.h unless you want to delete config.h after applying any patch), write an xsetroot script, and fuarrrk around with the color settings in dwm and your terminal emulator until you find something that looks good.

>>48556 i'll saave it to somewhere and test it again then later, i am using xxfce chicago95 for now but thanks for your help lainon!

>>48557 xfce is great, I used to use it with a macos theme before i switched to dwm

>>48560 well after gnome and KDE, xfce feels so liberating

>>48557 are you >>48545? Surprised Lainchan lets you post over tor

>>48561 I tried gnome 40 a couple weeks ago, god it's so unintuitive to use. You can't minimize stuff with a single press and there's no bar which indicates the various windows you have minimized. Shifting between workspaces is also a bit of a pain. Now, dwm doesn't let you minimize windows at all, but it does let you kick soykaf to tag 8 where it's not gonna bother anyone.

>>48563 yea i am, and yes lainchan allows you to post from tor, even tho there isn't a tor mirror. also the irc allows the use of tor as well but .onion would be much safer imo

>>48564 gnome is soykaf imo. wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I am still thinking to switch to a WM and TM later but for now i will stay on xfce till void or freebsd has support for my hardware.

>>48566 >void or freebsd has support for my hardware how does void not support your hardware? If anything, wouldn't Void have better support for hardware (in general) since the current kernel in their repo is 5.12.17_1 while Pop! still uses 5.11?

>>48567 it directly doesn't boot up, same with gentoo, freebsd. i have tried void and it just crashed without even opening, freebsd was going nuts on keyboard and then crashed again. Pop! has the hardware drivers while void is being little problematic as it doesn't even boot up from usb

>>48568 haha lol, that's a weird problem. I'm having this weird problem where 9front won't boot from a certain usb I have (it boots from other usbs). So I was trying to install 9front on this external hard drive that I have, but every time I got to the partitioning section I'd get scared that I might accidentally wipe my main ssd and I'd just power off my laptop without doing the installation. So I did this like 3 times within an hour (I changed the filesystem on my external hard drive once and then booted from 9front to make sure that I would be certain which name represented my hard drive), and then when I was finally sure of everything, I dd-d the 9front iso onto my usb but my laptop magically decided to stop booting 9front off that usb. So fuarrrking weird. It boots other linux/*bsd ISO's off that usb just fine, though.

>>47886 I miss old operating systems like Windows XP and early OSX. Sure, XP was mocked for looking like a plastic toy, but I'd rather have something not look serious rather than the flat art hell we live in.

>>48550 Well that looks like my rice, just better

>>47507 I imitated macos, best I can do so far

>>47494 Isn't she from China?, not to be racist or anything but I'm pretty against censorship and don't like those who stay by the CCP side.

>>48929 it is CPC not CCP CIA cum gulper

>>48929 >not to be racist or anything Being against a governing party's policies isn't racist at all. Assuming a citizen supports their nation's governing party might be. I know I sure don't support most of my government's major policies.

Ooh, nice to see some other gnome users in here. I'm a recent convert to (mostly) default gnome.

>>48968 Left but please use spoiler next time.

>>48969 I was not sure if I had to spoil or not (it's just a lewd cartoon meh). So I do a new with spoil :) Linux Mint is still comfy. Which one did you prefer? Spoiled cause big tities BBW blue cartoon girl

>>48970 How do people with prawn papes get any work done?

>>48989 >How do people with prawn papes get any work done? Sorry not familiar to the slang "prawn". A quick search on urban dict gives me this: To describe a chik that has a mad body, but a bad face. I don't really understand your sentence tho (english is not my native language).

>>48994 He asks if you can work despite seeing boobs all the time.

>>48995 I just run my programs in full window, non transparent background. Also I'm a big boy, time of being obsessed by big titties is over. Although this does not prevent me from enjoying these big blue balls. For those wondering its a rule34ed Sadness from the movie Inside Out.

>>48876 wew, openbsd is cool. I tried installing openbsd but it was impossible to use because of how slow it was. I found https://kevinthomas.dev/posts/openbsd-thinkpadt480.html after I went back to Void but at that point I had also learnt that openbsd doesn't have VAAPI support which is something I absolutely need.

How do I unfuck the taskbar on Chicago95? Does anyone know how to make the notification area look even remotely good?

>>47759 beautiful wallpaper! link?

>>49306 I've found that the Redmond97 bar looks nicer than the Chicago95 one, maybe you should try it out.

>>49368 Looks comfy, what colorscheme is this?

It feels nice being home again after trying to be an Arch ricer, an Ubuntu normal person, and who knows what else. Debian just works for me, as stupid as it sounds.

Just changed my wallpaper and color scheme, feels pretty good

good times simpler times cute times

>>47157 laptop and desktop

>>42436 Does anyone have the wallpaper from this rice? Just started my tiling wallpaper collection and it would fit perfectly

i tried. and i still dont know much about polybar so i just using premade one

Arch installer doesn't work, installed manually, unicode is not rendering, firefox 91 looks like soykaf, firefox-esr is a AUR package (ew). Guess I'm back on Debian then. >>49384 It just werks.

>>48877 considering macOS big sur in my opinion looks like a soykafty Linux rice I could just accept that this is macOS to me. I'll probably install Linux on my macbook later but no usb wifi cards

>>49496 Hey I saw ur rice on /g/! Its WMaker anon! >Sources >Theme: Should be in this pack; https://pomf.lain.la/f/yu1y22t.tar.gz >Wallpaper: Chaosphere by FrostXtreme: https://www.deviantart.com/frostxtreme/art/Chaosphere-6575258 >Icons: http://131.246.123.4/pub/linux/kde/unstable/icons/kde2-icons160599.tar.gz

Is it wrong the only reason I regret installing mint is because it's logo doesn't look cool in neofetch?

>>49627 Since it's possible to change the logo for neofetch to something custom it does seem a bit over the top reaction.

>>49589 >bullseye >T60 >1024*768 Very nice setup, i love the color scheme too

>>49602 Really nice lain, makes me wanna use wmaker again

>>47812 top bar looks nice but the colour scheme looks kinda ugly on the terminal >>48552 im a noob and it took me a few hours to figure out how to patch without errors lol. if u want it to look nice without much effort you can use pywal to grab colours from your wallpaper

Howdy fellow debian bros, How r u doing? >>49589 nice font and colorsheme, can you please paste your .Xresources? also is that ncspot? >>49641 I don't like car backgrounds, is kinda childish to me >>49384 clean and simple. what do you use as applauncher or do you click yourself to the programs? >>49320 I'd suggest to turn off the transparency, makes everything unreadable

>>49746 >can you please paste your .Xresources It's st and dwm, the colors aren't defined in Xresources, they're defined in the source code. But the colorscheme is called Gruvbox (I use the darker version). https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox >is that ncspot? No, it's cmus.

so far debian 11 is pretty good

>>49770 comfy actual plan9 setup

>>49602 Based fellow WMaker user. Looks like you're suffering from wmaker's rice-killing behavior where it lets _NET_WM_ICON hints override both the icon theme and user defined icons. Have a diff patch to fix that.

>>49804 What's that emacs theme? Looks pretty good.

SELain desktop from 2002 GNOME looked very different back then

>>49872 umm, nice, but i think the thread is about a desktop that is actually yours

>>49872 I wish that GNOME would still look like this. Thank god that I found something as comfy as Window Maker.

>>49854 Cyberpunk. IMO it's pretty ugly in all the right ways, and 90s enough to fit Window Maker quite well.

I've found a way to keep an eye on everything.

>>49891 I agree, it reminds me a bit of the default tty colour scheme, but better. Cheers!

>>47157 a bit bloat but planning to switch later this year

>>49899 wow I'm not the only one that uses something to word replace youtube links into redirect.invidious.io links >>49936 I love this, very clean; how did you do the terminal scrollbars?

>>49938 There's a privacy redirect extension for firefox that redirects any youtube links to an invidious instance.

>>49942 yes I know, but I use qutebrowser. I have two greasemonkey scripts, one automatically redirects when landing on a y**tube link and the second one word enhances to invidious. It's not perfect because greasemonkey only works if the page has JS enabled, but I just cannot give up qutebrowser.

>>49938 urxvt*scrollBar: yes

>>49882 I know that MATE is based on this version of GNOME, so there is that. I just looked into WindowMaker, it's so nostalgic looking!

>>49872 How did you install that theme?

>>50025 He didn't, that's GNOME 2.0. GTK2 was brand new at the time.

>>47157 i like mint cinnamon

>>50137 How do you know that this is GNOME 2 and not GNOME 1? I'm asking because it looks like GNOME 1 to me.

>>50179 >Discord and Steam How is gaming on a Thinkpad?

>>50222 Its OK, old 3d games and retro stuff like old shooters, 2d games, older strategy games and emulation up to about GC levels of demanding are all entirely doable. Gamecube is really the limit for 3d though, at least on mine, and the performance isn't amazing. Anything modern that's got 3d elements is an obvious no go, but graphically light but cpu intensive stuff can also be an issue, HOI4 for example runs normally but it takes ages for time to pass in it

>>49306 It looks like authentically disjointed garbage, quite accurate imo

>>50231 I got a modded PS3 that I do all my gaming on. I like to keep the fun stuff separated from productive stuff. But I am surprised your Thinkpad can emulate Gamecube at all.

>>50235 Windwaker at 720p with no other enhancements runs pretty well, mario runs pretty well but only at the original 30fps, haven't tried anything else yet, but its definitely doable.

Where's the Slackchads at?

>>49899 >using discord in a web browser oh, it's rare to see that, most people prefer to install their spyware client

>>50240 I use it in a browser myself until I have the means to run it in a VM on my Thinkpad.

3 monitors, 3 wallpapers. One day i'll switch to good ol' XFCE and try DWM. For now, I enjoy KDE Plasma and Latte. >>47483 >>48300 Looking forward for that linux upgrade update from this lad.

Nothing special... Except Special ED.

I'm currently using mint. Might hop to opensuse and kde. Only problem is finding cool skeuomorphic themes, but it took me a while on mint as well.

>>50354 anything that makes you wanna switch off mint in specific? im new to linux and its been the only OS i've really "used" a lot of! in fact im installing it again onto a bigger SSD today.

>>50428 Nice XFCE theme, Anon. How is it like daily driving FreeBSD?

>>50436 Very stable, I haven't had any issues with it, but my tools for work are very minimal (Assembly, C, C++) and I did have to make sure the hardware works with it. I've been running FreeBSD as a daily driver for a few years now, and I've never faced an issue with it. I'd say its a very comfy expierience.

>>49952 >I know that MATE is based I can agree with that

After posting on /vis/ I decide to change some colors, its void with some programs compiled with kiss.

>>49602 WMaker plays great with my Toughbook's touchscreen, thanks for sharing.

>>50611 how's alpine linux?

>>50643 I really want to try it, but Its so hard to leave voidlinux.

>>49627 A much more pressing issue is the default start menu icon you're using You know you can change it by right clicking and configuring it yeah? You can set neofetch to use any ascii art as its image by feeding it a new source file in the config or with the --source flag when running the command, you have to use small ascii's though

Hello people, switched to i3 from MATE. >>49589 I really enjoy looking at this

>>51025 >i3 I see you love the bloat.

>>49746 >I don't like car backgrounds, is kinda childish to me haha that was actually what I was going for, I wanted to fuse what adult me likes with what a 12 year old me would like. I still love Top Secret though, their projects were sick. New rice:

>>51059 Based, but customize that conky

>>50639 I Love Window Maker so much I will never stop using it.

>>51064 It's slightly customized actually, I don't know how I would improve it further to be honest.

>>49793 >plan9 I've always been interested in plan9, but I don't think I get it's purpose.

I moved to arch from void, i3 from dwm. It's still comfy, but I need to remember more things for efficiently using. btw, Maybe I'll stick with arch.

>>51076 >I've always been interested in plan9, but I don't think I get it's purpose. I twas developing further ideas created around UNIX and aimed at running on many computers while users interact with the system like it runs on a single machine. That's more or less all about it.

>>51076 Imagine all the good things they told you about UNIX were true, and also extended to the hardware. In fact, the whole philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" applies to the operating system as a whole. Using GNU/Linux tends to be a fairly disjointed experience, because everything has a different interface and output. In Plan9, everything is a file. Your mouse is a file. The screen is a file. The internet is a file. Everything uses one uniform interface. From unity comes power. The 9front implementation of git, for example, is nothing more than a collection of tiny shell scripts manipulating files. It is also interesting in that it makes full use of the mouse and (2d) graphics, which usually are either underexplored (UNIX) or explored in really annoying ways (Windows, MacOS). You basically can't use Plan9 without a three button mouse and a graphical terminal. Everybody talks about the distributed nature of the project, which, admittedly, is probably one of the most important parts, but there are lots of other innovations that Plan9 made. UTF-8, for instance. It truly tried to be something original, and I think that it really paid off.

>>51076 >>51093 (me) This is a good talk that Ori gave on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3GuoaxRNM

>>51093 The mouse heaviness of user interface is like kicking dead whales down the beach. I can play FPS or RTS with use of pointing device but when I have to use it for window management or text editing I start cursing like a shoemaker. Over a decade with dwm and more with vim/emacs does that to you. Keyboard control of that stuff is simply superior.

>>51096 >Keyboard control of that stuff is simply superior For window management I think it comes down to personal preference. But for text editing this is simply untrue. There have been studies where groups of people who believed they were more proficient with the mouse and those who believed they were more proficient with the keyboard were both tested. An even mixture of mouse users and keyboard users were told to edit text using either only the mouse (not counting the actual typing) and then only the keyboard. What they found was, regardless of preference, typists thought that they were faster with the keyboard. However, in reality, the mouse was faster for both groups. It's an illusion caused by the hand's travel time to the mouse. Mice have human understandable precision. Mouse controls probably feel unnatural to you, but that's only because of your muscle memory. I felt the same after switching to a mouse-based setup after years of tiling WMs and vi as my primary text editor. But the more you use it, the more effective it becomes.

>>51098 It's not a matter of speed. It's a matter of ergonomics.

>>51099 Again, that's just a decade of muscle memory talking. Mice were specifically designed to fit in your hand. There is nothing anti-ergonomic about a mouse.

>>51098 Why not use just tilingWM with mouse? It's unironically very comfy and quick. I never understand how some people only use mouse or keyboard.

>>51100 >Mice were specifically designed to fit in your hand. There is nothing anti-ergonomic about a mouse. I abandoned mouse for trackball. Mouse is ant-ergonomic in comparison. Carpal tunel etc.

>>51103 >Why not use just tilingWM with mouse? Because there is no need?

>>51103 I did that when I first started switching to mouse-based setups, but I found that I started using my keyboard bindings less and less. I really only use the keyboard to launch applications anymore.

>>51104 >Carpal tunnel Oh, but that won't happen with a keyboard? I do agree that trackballs are very comfy and probably more ergonomic though, even though regular mice are a bit more intuitive and precise imo.

>>51105 >>51106 Eh. I don't know. Having 10 virtual screens with which I can switch to with just key shortcuts and having things tile automatically is extremely useful for me. I used windows most of my life, so it's not like I say it because I'm a linux fanboy. But doing everything from the keyboard is just bizzare to me. It's frequently way easy to select things with a mouse than it is with keyboard. Mixing these two together makes it actually very pleasant to work on stuff for me.

>>51108 >Oh, but that won't happen with a keyboard? many times lower probability vs mouse

>>51109 Well, there is a fork of rio that has virtual desktops, but I don't believe that it's available for UNIX|GNU/Linux systems. Also, as I said, everything is a file. I'm fairly certain that people have written shell scripts that tile windows for them using rio's file interface. In addition, on 9front, you could open a terminal and open a second rio session inside of that terminal, and then simply hide/unhide it as you need more desktop space. You couldn't do this with plan9port's rio, but I'm fairly certain wio (wayland port of rio) will allow it. I certainly understand wanting to mix mouse and keyboard usage, but the mouse is the better option for everything except typing. >>51111 My impression was that the evidence linking computer use to carpal tunnel was shaky at best.

>>51113 >My impression was that the evidence linking computer use to carpal tunnel was shaky at best. Then you were mislead by your impression.

Thinking of installing gentoo again.

>>51131 >Thinking of installing gentoo again. Keep thinking.

>>51131 Don't install Gentoo. Install Haiku.

>>50222 Not that anon but I've tried LOL with lutris on my thinkpad 450 and it runs fine (CPU temperatures of about 60 degrees celsius with fan spin of about 4000 RPM, I didn't look at the FPS but it seems fine). I wanted to try Titanfall 2 but by the other anon's comment I don't have high hopes for it. Also I don't know if my color palette is ugly or not, but suggestions would be appreciated.

>>51135 The contrast in the top bar is horrid

>>51136 How do I generate a good color scheme?

>>51133 Why so passive aggressive? It's not like I can't do it, I ran it in the past for about 4 months but nowadays I know way more about linux so it should be even easier. Just takes time to compile everything.

>>51138 nvm fixed it, kinda

>>51140 I'd still use a lighter foreground color, but that does look a hell of a lot better. You can test colourschemes on terminal.sexy

windowmaker is the final inform.

>>51131 THIS is sexy. I used to have a similar setup and I have fond memories of it.

stuck with the yellow gruvbox because I can't be bothered to make it dark blue and grey >>47162 Music player?

Older screenshot from April >>51279 I was curious whether you posted here or not

Now that I'm done with work >>51279 Have you ever tried dwm? I really like it over gnome or xfce

>>51279 Deadbeef. Although i have since replaced it with the much simpler cmus.

I moved from i3 to dwm recently. It took me a while to apply all the patches and do some manual changes in the code, but the result was very satisfying.

I keep seeing cool DWM configs but everyone who has them ends up talking about how they've got like 40 patches in theirs to make it look good, which to me seems to defeat the purpose of using DWM since it's meant to be "lightweight" and "suckless", since you'll have to recompile and apply patches every time you wanna set your rice up again on another computer or something, makes much more sense to me to have something like bspwm where you can configure it just using a .config file since you can just keep a git repo to pull and you don't have to recompile anything.

>>51296 I might have a higher tolerance but the further step of compiling and installing the changes does not bother me. I could keep the patches on git and then it's a oneliner `sudo make clean install`. But yeah I'd keep the changes to a minimum. The base functionality is already enough

>>51296 suckless is a meme

Meoww! A bit of conservatism and meditation!

>>51296 >they've got like 40 patches in theirs to make it look good I don't have 10 patches on my config, it's fast and looks good to me. >it's meant to be "lightweight" and "suckless" It's meant to be like this by default so you can add your own soykaf. >you'll have to recompile and apply patches every time you wanna set your rice up again on another computer You don't need to apply the patches, just save your modified source code the same way you do with a config file and compile with make clean install, it's not hard. Pic of my desktop, beautiful and fast as fuarrrk. >>51279 Where is this wallpaper from? Can you post it, please?

>>48564 imho gnome is very intuitive once you get used to it. it's essentially an over-engineered tiling wm, where you dont really ever minimize windows and instead pop around to different workspaces. the keybind for switching workspaces is a bit goofy to get used to, but you can change it easily -- i use alt+super+num to bounce around, and sometimes alt+super+left/right to move one over. i have certain windows open in certain workspaces by default and turn on hot corner and now i have a system where i can navigate with either mouse or keyboard and also can separate different workflows into different spaces and seamlessly move between them. ive become a big fan of gnome in the last like six months.

>>51311 Here, loc. ball out

>>51312 Unironically I think that a lot of issues with GNOME are solved if you try it through POOP! OS first, since they have a really nice hotkey scheme by default. Hell, I even use it on non-GNOME desktops like KDE and xfce. You're also spot-on about GNOME basically being babby's first TWM, all my workflows now consist of me having a bunch of workspaces with different applications open that I flick through. I hate that the filepicker is soykaf and that the devs are soigrammers tho so I don't really like using GNOME .

>>47157 This is my pi zero running puppy linux and it has a desktop and has an image accessing lainchan....so: aWOOOOOOOooooooo!

>>51346 I dig your glass, keep those x-rays shinin homie

>>51296 >He actually thinks you need patches The only thing I've changed in my config is the colours.

>>51316 Yeah, the only thing that bothers me about GNOME is the current theming drama between them and Pop!_OS and Ubuntu. I've been using Adwaita recently and actually kind of like it now, and I like the new libadwaita version of Adwaita even more, so I don't really mind terribly if they totally demolish theming of GTK and GNOME, but they're being objectively scummy about it. They're literally lying and spreading disinfo to smear people like that Jeremy guy who runs Pop!_OS whose entire livelihood essentially depends on his ability to make a nice GNOME theme. The same people that have previously said they hate theming and want it to die are the people who he is supposed to be begging for a theming api, and he's been told he is going to have to be the one that puts all the work in on it, and they'll only let him make it if it appeases them, but it never will because they don't want theming to begin with. Then he starts trying to work on it and gets dogpiled by these people who are all claiming he's been toxic in response to them objectively mistreating him. Then those same people start posting on Reddit that he is posting disinfo and lying when these were literally all public discussions. IDK. It put a sour taste in my mouth. I dont use Pop!_OS so it doesn't affect me but its still fuarrrked up. I honestly am okay with the direction GNOME is going because I don't really customize GNOME to begin with, and I think these changes will probably improve the vanilla experience greatly, but they're really burning a lot of bridges with a lot of people over their own ego. If Ubuntu and Pop!_OS fork GTK4 or switch to Qt+KDE it will literally be the 9/11 of the Linux desktop and it will 100% entirely be the GNOME project's fault. Which is sad.

>>51361 Eh, as a Pop OS user if it came to that and they switched to KDE, then maybe at that point it'd just be for the best. As much as I like GNOME's simplicity and feel like KDE just overcomplicates things sometimes, GNOME's behavior has been really stupid these last few years. I'd probably prefer a fork but... honestly whatever, I'll adapt if I have to.

Been looking at a few tiling WMs but still can't get over the fact that I'll be missing some things like the ability to set audio profiles through a GUI settings program and other stuff like manually setting your GTK themes and so on. The thing they never tell you about is the prep you kinda have to do beforehand. So for now I've sort of settled on using spectrWM+polybar since they seem to be the EZmode for ricing. Might post a rice later.

>>51366 You can use standard GUI with tiling WM. It's what I do. I just use i3 with xfce4 bar running and it works just fine. Lxdapperance also works just fine to set up GTK themes on it. I'm pretty sure with more effort you can rice it much more than my basic configs.

Wanted to show-off example of my """"productive"""" use case of my rice. I apologize to all of swedish lainons for butchering your language.

>>51374 fuarrrk, fail. that bar on the dop usually disappears when I have a window on fullscreen but sometimes it bugs out and stays on until I float my cursor around it

>>51349 The borders are a bit too cut off and it looks better despite that on a crt than the face down 3.5'' lcd that fits the ratio better. *bark* It took many minutes to load a page with that thing by the by. It's encryption wasn't he same as my router either but it managed eventually anyway oddly. 30 seconds per page down, not fun but still fun, you know? Once I have the components built into a perfect frame, a specific form factor I like, then I'll get a pi 3b+ and hopefully it'll not be price gouged over 200%. They throw out crt's around here, I need to pick up a better one and see if the border issue goes away with a slightly different crt. It's just a bit off. If playing Chrono Trigger for instance with lakka the first letter or two of a diagonal box are missing but it is still pretty. The lcd thing has no such issue but is ugly, though practical due to being so mobile and also low power. >image related >broke many boards trying to make it as a neet, hacksaw, etc, dollar tree issues... :( Sorry to be a spaz being all off topic but I felt like talking about it... again. Maybe I'll post images of ruined wood and a broken 1usd hack saw in the wood thread on /diy/ soon. /blog

yeah i use fzf instead of dmenu to launch programs, I am very cool. Yeah i use qutebrowser I am very cool on the internet.

>>51546 Why do you call your system the lain/navi if you don't even have a CoplandOS desktop background or rice. I think you must have some sort of brain damage. Also you're on artix? LOL! Broken distro for 'noided schizos who think SystemD is some sort of NSA backdoor.

>>51547 Any machine that can be used to navigate the web is a navi, COPEland can't trademark that term. And systemd is a bloated pile of crap, regardless of its vulnerabilities. Systemd is written to make linux machines more like Windows, with cross compatibility, backward compatibility, blah blah blah. If you aren't running an enterprise setup, there is no reason to use systemd. I use Void btw

>>51547 I've been lain/navi on all my linux setups for like 6 years so it's just habbit at this point that I always set it up like that. Artix works fine, haven't noticed any problems after switching from arch a few months ago. I dont think systemd is a backdoor, I just do not think it is very good software. Runit is simply a better init system in my opinion. Are you against using good software lainon?

>>51549 Enjoy not being to enjoy a GOOD desktop environment lmao... imagine unironically thinking that Red Hat is making Windows more like Linux.Take your meds schizo. You even use a schizo OS. >>51551 You are not a 9 year old girl who fixes computers. Artix is bad because it doesn't let you use GNOME, the best desktop environment. Why do you think some cheesy and crusty old 'Runit' is better than the Red-Hat backed, Enterprise-Class Systemd? You realize it's what most distros use because it's the BEST init system. People wouldn't use it unless if that were so.

>>51557 >Artix is bad because it doesn't let you use GNOME, the best desktop environment. Regardless of the accuracy of the latter statement, the former is completely false. I used GNOME on my Artix machine for a couple of months. They even have an iso for it, though it's still in testing. Most distros use systemd because that's what Red Hat and Fedora use, which are two of the most popular, and certainly most powerful GNU/Linux distros (Red Hat is the 2nd highest contributor to the Linux kernel). I tend to disagree that systemd is a bad piece of software: I think it has some good ideas. However, I do not need most of its features, so I do not use it. If it's the case for you that you do find systemd useful, or you just don't care, then that's perfectly fine, but please don't try to justify your apathy by arguing against init freedom. Users should have the ability to choose their init system, not be confined to systemd. GNU/Linux is about freedom. To remove a user's freedom is to become more like Windows.

>>51561 http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/ How many times do we have to go through this, schizo? Linux is not about choice. Linux is a kernel. Init freedom doesn't exist. If you actually think that you don't need systemd then you're absolutely delusional. This is exactly why no one wants to develop for the linux 'platform' which doesn't even exist in the first place by the way. Freetard mentality like this is the most severe cope I've ever seen in FOSS history. Linus Torvalds is not obligated to give you """init""" """"freedom"""" to complain about your init system is the equivalent of complaining that you're breathing the same air as a darkie or something. Point is, sackler, you're gimping your OS because you think systemd is 'bloated' or whatever enigmatic buzzword excuse you types like to use to justify your UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY IDIOTIC software choices. I run a SUSE system myself and I've not ever had to configure or alter anything to suit my tastes, not to mention I have the highest tier of software support BECAUSE I run a SYSTEMD'D distro. Chances are you're just on Artix because Archlinux was getting too popular for you to be any sort of hipster anymore. Pathetic.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST)

>>51562 >Linux is a kernel This is true, however, I said GNU/Linux. As in the version of the GNU distribution which uses the Linux kernel. I also never mentioned choice, I said freedom. Can you read? In any case, I've never used Arch. I use Artix because after distrohopping for a while, I found that it supported my hardware the best. Arch would probably be the same way, but Artix was easier to install. As I mentioned before, I do not use systemd simply because it offers no value to me. Runit meets my use case and boots more quickly. I've never had a problem with it. You seem to be getting pretty worked up about this. You do realise that your software choice isn't you, right? That just because not everybody agrees that your way is right, it's is not an attack on your character? You are not the software you run. Software is a tool. If tomorrow Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever distro offered me some benefit Artix denied me, I would switch, even if that meant using systemd. Would you do the same for Artix?

>>51562 Not the poster you're replying to but consider the following: https://lainchan.org/rules.html You're constantly using personal attacks, stop. >Linux is a kernel. >Init freedom doesn't exist. As far as I'm concerned the Linux kernel lets you load any init system, not only systemd. Also because Linux is just a kernel and not a complete system, systemd is a separate project and is not always shipped with Linux - see Android, Guix, Devuan, Artix and other memes. >If you actually think that you don't need systemd then you're absolutely delusional. I use Guix System as my desktop system, I don't need systemd and I'm not delusional. > Linus Torvalds is not obligated to give you """init""" """"freedom"""" You don't really seem to know what Linus is responsible for these days, anyway he didn't lock the kernel from running inits other from systemd, see Android. Linux developers in fact give me the freedom to run any init I want.

This is the best proof of the primacy of Artix right here.

>>51561 systemd is only bad if you use some weird distro that breaks at some point like arch or some issue tracker distro namely "fedora" and "opensuse". (new software) - it does break since new barely-tested things usually do that but it's only a matter if whether you're on enterprise linux or not. enterprise usually never break and issue tracker distros tend to iron the job for their enterprise counterparrt (actually it's the clueless non-enterprise users' job to find out the bugs! hello?), it would be bad enterprise 'did' break. when systemd arrived it wasn't even used on enterprise since they knew and a lot of independent people's systems broke a few times and gotta press that report button to make sure the enterprise linux will know but "we'll fix that for you" and thus the ecosystem is born. after all you'll have to think and pause, how long will this "breaking" continue? protip: it won''t stop. maybe debian or ubuntu is on the other direction (conservative and use old as fuarrrk software) while arch is at the opposite (use new software, if it breaks good luck) but recently all these red hat things spread all over the entire distro ecosystem that what you have now has red hat software that might break (systemd, etc) and guess what, suddenly nothing is stable (maybe crux or slack but you get the idea). >>51562 > I run a SUSE system myself >BECAUSE I run a SYSTEMD'D distro you gotta thank the people who broke their systems for you rhel/sle both use older version of systemd and you can guess it's stable for you but most of everyone else isn't. honestly I don't have a problem with systemd but whatever arch is doing is to be a systemd bug tracker is not a good idea. there were times systemd forgot to "safely unmount drives" or whatever buggy soykaf that's cyberhumped or even an update breaks "cryptomount" or whatever. not good. don't forget that infinite shutdown timer.

>>51575 Just stop using soykaf distros. If you're using a distro that breaks. That means its soykaf. So just don't use the distros that break. Simple as. Maybe you'll even start to use GNOME.

>>51576 All distros have broken at some point or another. So do you mean to stop using all distros?

>>51578 > the make you own OS pill

>>51573 What is it about Window Maker that makes every rice look great? I have yet to see a Window Maker configuration that doesn't look good.

>>51583 Concentrated late 90's/Early 2000's directly signalling to the animal part of your brain that this is like that thing from your childhood that you liked and you should like it too

>>51576 the only time my artix ever broke is when i was messing with files and configs i didn't understand and I broke it. It's never broken from updating the system or anything like that. 99% of programs just werk

>>51590 Lmao, I love this. I've seen the nostalgia argument used for everything from music, films, food to even DE now. Obviously people can't like things on their own and only enjoy things if they are exposed in their youth to it. No matter that lot of us like music or architecture from times and places we never experienced.

>>51583 Window Maker hearkens back to a time when people used and developed for computers because it was fun, or it was something they wanted to do. People were just enjoying their time with it, and it shows. These days it's all corporate flatsoykaf and soulless, brutalist design.

>>51583 idk window maker just looks... bad to me. Compared to the SOVLFUL SerenityOS desktop. It just doesn't look like something feasiably usable with its massive icons and lack of modern accessibility design.

>>51594 This is not actually a rebuttal to my argument He asked why it looked good to him regardless of what kind of rice or quality of rice it was in

>>51591 Looks like someone's got stockholm syndrome. Best switch to a distro people use to do work instead of going around tinkering your 'rice'

>>51601 Better switch to Windows then, since most people doing actual work use it. Or if you're restricting yourself to Unix, start looking into a hackintosh. Or better yet, buy a Macbook! Listen glitterboy, just because a majority of people use something, it doesn't make it good.

>>51627 I fuarrrking love this, looks super usable! Also +1 for Xfe ;)

>>51604 That's so dumb. Why would most people use something bad? Something that the majority of people like and enjoy using must undeniably be good, otherwise someone would've made an alternative and it'd flood the free market.

>>51645 You have a very optimistic view of common people. Marketing and default options are the basis of their decisions. If you go to the store, you don't get a choice between Windows or Linux. You have to go out of your way to get something other than a Windows machine. Most people over 40 do not even know that there are other operating systems other than Windows. For some reason it's saying my post looks automated so I'm going to keep typing until it is convinced I'm a human.

>>51646 Mhh, I would say that in the 2000s, Windows was THE desktop experience. So it's kinda justified in saying it got popular cause it was good. But honestly Linux caught up extremely quickly and I just don't like it. Not even linux fanboyism, but I feel outside of games and audio software, it's worse. Which isn't the fault of the OS but of the demographics of the userbase. Besides that I don't really know what windows as a OS has over Linux.

>>51311 Hello, fellow compatriot. By a million dicks, why the fuarrrk does my Debian 11 keeps freezing randomly?

>>51650 It must be a bad distribution. Use the latest version of elementaryOS you've purchased with a small fee of $30 instead.

>>51645 The majority of imageboard users are on 4chan, so it must be the best imageboard. Otherwise some alternative imageboard, perhaps themed after a popular 90s anime, would have flooded the free market. See how it doesn't really work? Somebody post the image of the "30000 people can't be wrong" suicide advertisement.

>>51649 Windows is bad feeling now because of rampant feature creep, schizophrenic design choices leaving a garbled mix of almost NT looking stuff and hyper modern (and particularly bad) flat design and bloat no one asked for, not bloat in the oh no my linux install uses 750mb of RAM at idle sense, but the constant well my disk is pinned for no reason and One Drive is deciding to sync even though I don't use it and Cortana is telling me to buy more MS stock even though I disabled her last update and oh look Xbox game pass came up for no reason and the OS is giving priority to downloading updates even though it knows I'm trying to stream media and am near the peak of my available bandwidth way. It feels bad to use because its actively annoying, going back to using stock W10 after using any linux distro is like going on a dodgy website with your ad and script blockers turned off and being barraged with lurid soykafty ads, hideous Javascript and constant popups Windows 10 with the soykaf gutted out of it, in as far as that's possible, is actually quite pleasant to use, you can feel microsoft's cock resting against your backpassage still but its more implied than in your guts the way it is in a stock install. But even with debloating w10 is just more annoying than its really worth, I'm typing from a W10 machine right now but I only have it installed because I need it for university work, and I really dislike using it for anything else, the only upsides Windows really has now are Battery life and software availability, which is rapidly falling apart.

>>51663 Is there anything stopping you from running your university stuff in a VM? Also >you can feel microsoft's cock resting against your backpassage still but its more implied than in your guts the way it is in a stock install big kek

>>51666 I need to use Matlab and an Open University Specific programming environment teaching tool thing and Desktop Office and running that in a VM on a dual core laptop from 2014 doesn't sound like a good time.

Is there a compositor that can give any arbitrary Window Manager Compiz like effects?

>>50981 How well does mbaacc run with wine?

>>51656 Yes unironically. The fourth 'chan is indeed the best on the imageboard free market. That's why everyone uses it.

>>51677 It is not the best, it is the most fitting one. Garbage products for garbage users on the garbage market.

>>51677 go back to your soykafhole

>>47157 nice spleen, although seems like a bit of a waste of screen realestate. here's mine

If you Lainanons had to choose between Window Maker and IceWM which one would you choose and why?

>>51743 Windowmaker has SOVL. IceWM has no soul. Not a hard choice to make, you fuarrrking donkey.

>>51743 I'd use Window Maker because I already have it installed and I've never used IceWM.

>>51743 Why not get the best of both and install Fvwm?

>>51771 FVWM, while certainly more powerful than WMaker, is a lot more difficult to configure. The draw of WMaker to me is that it's something between a DE and a WM -- ease of use combined with flexibility.

>>51743 I prefer IceWM. Cuz It just works. No need to do or search about complicated ricing.

>>51771 >>51813 Is FVWM or Awesome more Customizable?

How do you lainons measure the boot speed of your desktop? I've heard this is possible with systemd-analyze but I don't have it. I think this is enough to determine it? I use openrc. [####@localhost ~]$ sudo dmesg [ 20.071320] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 20.434792] elogind[1896]: New session 1 of user ####. Now that I think of it, I should probably plug in a USB device when the desktop environment is loaded successfully so that dmesg can give me the timestamp.

>>51576 Fedora will still break by the time they implement gnome 40 while the enterprise Rhel will still be on gnome 34, well I just checed and it's actually still at gnome 3.32 This breaking never stops as the ecosystem is the free users will have to iron out the bugs and then you have no distro that can support raid out of the box because it updates way too fast, RAID is not supported or will at some point break because some update was meant to find bug for the enterprise. I hope I'm actually joking. >>51579 You know what anon said is true, just look at the forums, the issues are archived, all the problems a casual free user had to face and will face again in the future when new software comes around the corner. Early adopters get the worm like. No one actually does conservative job at making a distro that will just support raid encryption and more out of the box I think they will just write a wiki how it's not gonna work or put disclaimers as it will break or whatever. They all break or will just jump ship to the newest red hat software same as Pipewire which still had distortion, I tested it lately and I'm getting desync and skipping of music playback. Why are people shipping version zero? Maybe what we need is an ESR of sorts but maybe that's what ubuntu will be now with "snaps" it will also be possible to avoid the broken library hell. >>51591 That's just personal experience, nothing to do with everyone's issues posted in the forums as we speak. >>51601 >>51604 >>51645 Now now, stop it with the personal attacks, just talk about the idea not about the "people". Personal instigation is low quality and only leads to a rooster fight which fruits no valuable information and anons should treat the other as themselves, anon = anon, the more intelligent discussions, the more anon collective learns. Don't turn your anger and discontent to muddying the discussion like the average 4chan catalog with all just wojakflinging that it's almost impossible to have coherent discussion over there. >>51668 Just treat an education laptop like you wuold a business PC, segment and partition. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HIjMfxGya_o == https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/partition:5 >>51677 I haven't used 4chan for years, only used alt chans before as there's no good conversations that come from there. Unless you're masochistic and is unable to discern the botspam threads. I've actually seen that it's much worse now, there are AI generated replies over threads that had nothing to do with the thread and OP post itself as it's probably image recognition AI, also 4chan users had been using gulag (pre newcaptcha) and can't be trusted with anything privacy and anonymity related.

>>51633 How about audacious?

>>51832 awesome t. fvwm user