Desktop Thread

>>75915 Hit bump limit. Share your desktop! And if you feel like it, tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for :D I'll start: i use this particular machine to study about anything i care about, mostly CS and programming stuff in general. I also use this machine to work remotely through ssh. It has a comfy keyboard so writing in it is a bliss. And the matte screen is great, too.

>>84320 as probably deductible from my toolbar, i do not use my desktop lule >>84322 if desktop threads are gay then i love penis

>>84320 Mostly I just have 1 maximised window per workspace, but floating windows look cooler.

>>84358 > i stopped readin when i saw the didn´t mention toshiba satellites

>>84360 >running vlc as root what

> tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM OS: I'm an old Debian sid/Devuan ceres user, then I found Void linux and thought it was similar, since then I've been on Void for 2 years now. DE/WM: I've been using XFCE for over 8 years, so I've continued since then, with 4 years using gnome and 1 year using i3wm, I'll probably switch to i3wm again in the future. > and what you use your device for Daily use, I'm not a programmer, I don't intend to work in the field any more, or get too involved with it, just small projects. What I do most here is study, listen to music and watch the news.

>>84373 oh my gosh how cute! :D you using glibc or musl?

>>84377 I'm using the glibc version, but the musl version is very good.

>>84364 Did you add non-free to your Guix anon? Also were is the obligatory emacs with the dwm-guile config in the screen shot?

After years of distro-hopping and screen-time, I finally reverted back to real life. The personal computer now only aids me in my personal life and real life things. I get on the computer, I do my things, and then get off again. The original classic idea of a PC - a personal computer - was to help out in real life, not replace it. So I don't mind running Windows anymore.

>>84415 Linux Mint is still better than Winbloat 11.

>>84415 Good boy. Now that you've got some real life it's time for them to collect that sweet data about your habits.

>>84419 They wouldn't know more about me than the people I deal with in real life. Actually, my real life friends might now more about me than Microsoft.

>>84415 >i must conform >DEU yeah... checks out

>>84415 Too retarded to install open hardware monitor, just put the directory on the desktop. Top tier bait.

Use NetBSD for true freedom and control over your hardware.

>>84421 As someone who uses a desktop PC, and on top of that as a personal PC like imagined by early b_oo_m ers, I am definitely not a conformist. I also don't have a job to underline my avant-garde lifestyle in a world full of taxpayer robots. >>84422 See, that's why you run autistic anime OS. I don't need everything installed, portable is fine for me. My RAM phallus is 32GB big.

>>84425 Your bait is good, but this isn't the site for it. No one genuinely cares what you use. Go back to /g/ please.

>>84425 >portable is fine for me >My RAM phallus is 32GB big. same here fambam I run my OS from a SD card sometimes if the BIOS alows for it

>>84424 How long have you been using NetBSD on a desktop/laptop? Any particular features you enjoy or miss? I want to try it this summer.

>>84436 About a year, I have used it on the server much longer though. Rc scripting and pkgsrc are some of the best selling features, extremely simple design, and the performance on older hardware is great.

>>84444 I have a question, when I use Linux I can make the XFCE use 340 MB of RAM in Idle, while in FreeBSD, XFCE uses in IDLE 1.4 GB of RAM. Is this normal or did I configure something wrong?

>>84452 Dont look at memory usage as if "more is bad!!", instead think why. FreeBSD uses ZFS it does aggressive caching, XFCE on FreeBSD takes advantage of ZFS by pooling more memory, so you can avoid making more syscalls.

>>84454 Now I understand, it makes sense, thanks for the explanation, I really thought it was my mistake, I'm not really a programmer.

>>84452 Ram not used is ram you're wasting. Also processes eat different amounts of ram in different OSs. Some cache more, some share more resources, but in general if you see a lot of ram bein used, it means things are more probable to load from cache rather than disk. Only change i would do that you probably haven't is setting the swappiness to 10.

>>84320 Nice desktop, I haven't seen MATE in a long while. What's it like nowadays?

>>84670 I really like your wallpaper.

I use this laptop for fun: movies, music and some games...

>>84681 Take it! To make the body longer: it's from manga The summer hikaru died (by mokumokuren).

>>84424 Best in thread I really like NetBSD

plan to migrate to either void or guix soon because i've always had package trouble with artix along with suspend being temperamental.

>>84794 I see you are here from 4/g/ as well. Well, hopefully it comes back soon.

I always seem to keep coming back to Mint, it's very comfy

Computer :3 >>85109 cute linux girl

>>85074 cool, I might go Arch -> Void or Nix. what makes you consider Guix instead of Nix?

>>85101 I am from 4/g/. Hope also it comes back, but also like this site. I use it sometimes. Hope you did not mean it as in you want me to leave.

>>84424 is it easy to upgrade between NetBSD versions (example, 9 to 10), or convoluted/it breaks like in debian/ubuntu?

>>84425 go back to 4choon you filthy N'wah >>84431 i really hope you're not doing swapping on an SD card >>84670 nice wp >>84746 i find that using a lang that's not english for the OS language becomes pretty bothersome (mainly with FMs naming default folders) >>85153 >Hope you did not mean it as in you want me to leave. polite people and the non-degenerates are always welcome to Lainchan

>>84320 Simple TDE with default Win2000 theme.

>>85156 This is my favorite so far congrats lain I love your desktop. What fvwm version is that? How did you make the right bar?

>>85159 Thank you, it's fvwm2. The bar on the right is pretty close to the right panel that is in the defeault fvwm config. I just added some dockapps, the clock, xosview, and some launchers with fvwmbuttons.

>>84367 I like your desktop Carlos

>>85163 What extension are you using to tile your windows like that? I dropped gnome because I couldn't find a good way to split my screen.

It's basic and very basic, but after years of windowmaker, KDE feels right.

>>85166 Tiling Shell. It works well for my needs, I only wish it supported dynamic tiling, it works more like windows fancy zones than a traditional tiling WM

>>85173 >Tiling Shell Exactly what I was looking for, thanks

>>85167 A fellow man of culture. I really like it. Basic is not necessarily bad. For some reason I never got KDE to work properly on my Slackware. From >>84794

>>85131 >what makes you consider Guix instead of Nix? mainly because i'm interested in guile and guix having it's own init system.

>>84424 I recently put netbsd on a wii, very neat and portable OS but i couldn't imagine using it for day to day things outside of a server context. >>85156 This is incredibly cohesive, what terminal font is that?

>>85156 hi jacob i miss gee

>>85153 No, I did not mean I wanted you to leave. I just recognized your desktop.

>>85206 Thank you, that's a nice Haibane background. >what terminal font is that? Spleen. >>85223 Hello, I miss it too, but lainchan is nice.

>>85225 What are the two browsers for? Pretty sure you can just copy LibreWolf's config into your Floorp profile(s)

>>84424 Would you mind posting the wallpaper please?

>>85266 nta but found it .ytpme ro trohs oot saw ydob ehT

>>85167 What's the image background? It looks quite nice

I use i3wm since forever now, can't really see myself using anything else.

>>85307 I tried hyprland but I quickly switched to sway lol

Have a /g/ood day to anons ;_;

>>84748 thanks, i love this manga for how stunning the art is

>And if you feel like it, tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for :D Fluxbox just werks, but I will purge it once I write my own WM soon(tm).

A cluttered desktop is a cluttered mind. Keep your navi clean lainon

>>85309 What's the practical difference? I've been using Hyprland for a week, tinkering with the setup. Also tried Sway in a vm. Seems the same, but without animations. Sway has tab view, Hyprland has tab groups (less convenient).

>>84320 My hostname was navi at some point. Anyway, I chose Void Linux because this is an old laptop that I kept as a backup, so I wanted something lightweight. I also wanted to avoid systemd because I'm an init user like that. Runit turned out to be pretty nice to work with. i3 was my first tiling WM. I loved the feel of it so I kept it. I've been testing other even lighter WMs because I'm a freak about reducing RAM usage (Firefox is the worst), but I haven't migrated yet. Ever since my main laptop died, I've been using this for college stuff, programming, and sometimes gaming.

>>85343 What is that desktop environment? It doesn't look like the standard AmigaOS one.

>>85343 It's good to see your desktop Amiga poster. >>85391 Clearlooks always looks nice.

OS: IBM bluewash 41 w/ KDE Fedora makes use of my newer hardware and I was having issues on Debian 12 with its Nvidia shenanigans. I've got a bunch of games installed but I play more on my Switch or PS2. Its now relegated as my school computer and general web surfing. The interface status was made by me and the programme on the left is my friend's sfetch built on Zig. And the brazil file has my essay proposal for my final history report.

Because this is a happy past to be stuck on

>>84320 alright, I want to post my desktop but I'm looking first for a dynamic wayland WM, also, I always struggled with wayland screen recorders, most of them didn't for work for some reason (i know this isn't a tech support thread but related a bit ig, looking for suggestions to rice and then post) any suggestions lainons?

>>85403 I've heard gpu screen recorder just werks I've never had problems with regular OBS on hyprland or wayland kwin though.

>>85403 I don't use Wayland, but as far as I know Hyprland is the only dynamic tiling WM available.

void + labwc is really comfy, im loving it.

>>85394 got to know that status program, if you would share with the class lain?

>>85412 Not him, but it looks like conky.

>>85409 how has your success been using ostui, ive always had issues with it not showing some songs or playlists

im not good with techy/computer stuff but this is what i did: linux mint / xfce / xfwm4, i use this pc for basically everything i do like ever, most of my time is spent on this thing, it (and my phone i guess) are my only sources of human interaction, most of the games i play are on my computer(s), i watch anime on here, sometimes i program but im not good at it and never know how to do even the simplest tasks, and i maintain my website on here too.

>>85438 It could be a little bit better. I personally like Mint's own theming, not the latest one but the previous one, I think it should be called Mint-L. It also would be nice if XP's Royale Noir theme was available on XFCE, I'm not a big fan of XP's default look to be honest ;_;

>>85439 >I'm not a big fan of XP's default look to be honest if you want me to be completely honest, yeah me too, but im too stupid to rlly install much else in the way of themes. what i honestly prefer, and i know this sounds dumb, is the windows xp classic theme, hot pink, with italic big comic sans text on everything. i know it's stupid as fuarrrk but something about it just scratches an itch in my brain.

>>85440 >but im too stupid to rlly install much else in the way of themes I had the same thing when I switched to SwayWM. When I ricing, I would either have a completely ugly desktop or one that scream “Saar!”. That's why I use GNOME + Extensions, it's pretty /comfy/.

>>84320 10/10 would hang out with and bring some 9 de oro and unos matesulis for bajonear

>>84320 This is the first time i've tried to do something so gloomy plas let me know what you lainanons think about it

>>85432 yeah, it won't show songs without title metadata which is a pain, so I have to fix up my library. It works pretty well otherwise, I do like the sixel album art.

>>85409 just want them to add proper support for openbox themes

>>85485 what's lacking? as far as i know, it runs off the openbox spec so it should be fully compatible with openbox themes. the labwc readme also recommends searching for openbox themes to use.

>>85455 i like the wall. font not so much what is that at the top?

>>85497 the two eyes? it's a program called xeyes, follows your mouse

>>84320 Rest in peace 4soykaf.

>>85439 Mint-L is the flat-style theme similar to Arc: http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=any&section=any&keyword=mint-l Mint-X is the clearlooks style and Mint-y is the current theme inspired by Yaru.

>>85518 I know anon. To me Mint-L is the best theme for Cinnamon, Mint-Y, inspired by Yaru, is not bad, but it doesn't suit Cinnamon.

>>85412 The monitoring tool is conky with this theme https://github.com/AguilarLagunasArturo/conky-themes (though I tweaked it a bit) The status bar is just i3status with a theme I grabbed from here https://github.com/addy-dclxvi/i3-starterpack/tree/leaf

Posting old desktop. Still have windows 7 on ryzen in a dual-boot setup.

Comfy midnight postin'. I use this thing for writing, listening to music, and brewing soykaf. >>85109 Based Mintcel.

Average ricer in 2010~2011 was a young Mexican Windows user with a tumblr and aesthetic sensibility Average ricer in 2025 is a profoundly autistic American elderly tranny Linux user with zero aesthetic sensibility The desktops today are less imaginative, less diverse, less attractive, and less personal. A trend in old ricing scene might be an icon pack or a font. There is only one real trend in new ricing scene, and it's barely ricing your desktop. Attention to detail and originality has been found to be pretentious, so you can be a lazy and unskilled and have an ugly boring desktop and still post. The fact that 90%+ of customized desktops in 2025 aren't using a 4k monitor (which costs less than $200) indicates just how over it is.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST,Always argue in good faith and avoid using personal attacks.)

>>85293 late phone post, it's Syd Mead concept art for Blade Runner.

>>85640 >made in 100+ posts into the thread without anyone mentioning trannies You just couldn't help yourself could you, chuddie?

>>85343 >>85156 >>84794 It's nice to see all of the /g/ posters here

>>85640 I used to make my own fuarrrking icons and super personalize my desktops. These days I barely care if my background isn't stock. I'm mostly care about brightness and color for app windows/file manager. A black background with dark grey colors are better to me than ultra stylized icons and such. Once upon a time I would change my friends desktop backgrounds into gay porn, mouse pointer = a dick, icons are dicks and such, shortcuts to web browsers open gay porn, etc... though, these days I find it overtly taxing and unnerving to look for and make custom gay themed GUI things just to fuarrrk with friends. In hindsight it's still makes me chuckle a bit. Lots of wasted time tho....

>>84373 you can use i3 with xfce, i do it and it's super comfy. best of both worlds

>>85640 Could you show us your desktop?

>>85640 >tranny tranny tranny fuarrrk off to twitter until 4chan is back, you'll find your kind there

>>85640 >troons o algo >retvrn to the 2010s blame gtk3/4 for breaking themes instead of this 4shart buzzword vomit.

>>85611 >Still have windows 7 on ryzen in a dual-boot setup. Font name?

>>85640 Yes the ultimate display of skill: wasting exorbitant amounts of time on ricing

I know you're all super geeks, but this is my modest i3wm setup. Please don't be too cruel.

>>85498 cool, I just faintly remembered it when I read your post

>>85681 HAHA, that looks literally like my first scrot from 3 years ago. dont worry, you'll get your style. I even used the same bar config.

>>85667 really nice, what fetch is that? nobara linux seems comfy too.

>>85667 Looks good. How do you make librewolf's background transparent? (if it actually is) >>85681 I'm sorry but I hate it. Why is there a vscode icon in the middle? Why do you waste vertical real estate with two bars that are both half empty?

>>85307 Sick desktop. Can you share the pape?

>>85744 >oh my god, it doesn't even have systemd

I just like electronic warfare, man.

>>84320 Arch + GNOME + Yaru ;_;

>>85502 is that gkrellm? i love gkrellm

>>85806 1. Would you be kind enough to share your wallpaper with me? 2. I really like your wallpaper—would you mind sending it to me when you have a moment? 3. If it’s not too much trouble, could you please share your wallpaper file with me? 4. I admire your wallpaper; would you be willing to send me a copy? 5. When you get a chance, could you kindly share the wallpaper you're using?

>>85806 there's a distro you might like, it's called Ubuntu

>>84320 >OS/DE/WM left this guy on endeavor a while ago, moved on with other machines but left this one as i dont tinker on it much anymore. i3 makes a ton of sense for me with how i use may laptop (writing, coding, playing mahjong), but i ended up hating it on a larger screen. want to move to hyprland at some point soon and give it another shot on my artix tower. >>85156 fantastic. simply stunning. i hope the ducky floats around. >>85681 bro just do want you enjoy, you'll find your way.

>>85817 Here you go ;_; >>85819 >Snaps >"An error occured" dialogue every 5 min. >Give Ubuntu LTS a chance >Worse Even Arch is more stable than that piece of soykaf.

>>85823 Thank you, I like the colors that you're using. >i hope the ducky floats around It swims from side to side and the water level rises with cpu usage.

>>85673 It's roboto condensed, I read alot and I've gotten used to it over the years. >>85730 You can edit the config of neofetch. I can't really recommend Nobara unless you have an all AMD build, it screws up two particular things all the time: Nvidia and system delivery of package updates. It's only use is to setup a Fedora variant for quick gaming. >>85734 That's Firefox. IIRC you can also edit the css of librewolf just like Firefox.

>>85852 fastfetch is nice, would recommend moving to it if you care enough to configure neofetch

>>85370 oh its you! that's your custom gui framework right?

>>85852 >That's Firefox. IIRC you can also edit the css of librewolf just like Firefox. Yeah, with userChrome.css, but I couldn't figure out how to make the page's background transparent, only the toolbar and such.

>>85788 amazing desktop anon, ¿what software do you use? What is that image and pdf viewer? I like it.

>>85862 Have you tried going to about:config and trying to set the value to "true?" >browser.tabs.allow_transparent_browser Then doing: :root { --tabpanel-background-color: transparent; background: transparent; } in the userChrome.css?

Thanks, browser.tabs.allow_transparent_browser was it

Using macOS for the time being

>>85883 What's the point of posting standard macOS here?

>>85884 What is the point in posting anything here?

>>85884 He shared a desktop, in a thread where the main point is sharing desktops

>>85884 Maybe its a hackintosh?

>>85655 I know, but I prefer to use a complete DE or a stand-alone WM, I don't usually mix things up. I've even given up the idea of using i3wm...

>>85884 ????????????????????????????????

>>85788 >I just like electronic waifus, man. >>85863 not him but i'm pretty sure the pdf viewer is calibre. good one. i like it has a mode to invert colors, comfy to read at night >>85640 i "rice" mine to be as familiar and usable as possible, ignoring all trends and pretty much making it look boring on purpose. i like familiar. i like to not get distracted with flashy colors and to be able to work without having to remember the new keyboard macros or icons position >>85502 >>85815 gkrellm gang assemble >>85806 >Arch + GNOME + Yaru ;_; whatever works for you, man. >>85884 what's the point of your comment? it's a desktop thread, Lainon posts a desktop, what else do you expect?

Thanks, Lain, for the wonderful wallpaper. That's the lightweight LXQt on the not-so-lightweight NixOS.

>>85947 is LXQT more stable than KDE is?

>>85947 Which version of LXQt?

>>85948 Definitely. I have never encountered a single bug, and it has never crashed for me either. The interface is also stable, it hasn't seen any significant changes since the days of the Razor-qt and LXDE merge. I would say it has made XFCE irrelevant. >>85950 2.1.0

>>85863 PDF viewer is Atril. And the image - it's actually mpv open playing a song, it displays the song cover if it's present in the metadata. Also here are the wallpaper images if you want them. >>85939 >>I just like electronic waifus, man. Hell, I love them.

>>85947 wow i love the wallpaper. i love Rei. I'm thinking about switching to NixOS, is it your favorite?

>>85860 Only the top left CPU/RAM monitor. But yes, written using the 0.2 version I've released last Feb. I'm working on a task bar, startmenu and WM made with Cassette, as well as slowly preping the next release 0.2.1 in which I upgrade the API and some code to C23, improve the docs, + a couple of extra widgets. Once these things are done, I'll migrate off Fluxbox.

Nice desktops Lainons. I got bullied out of my house for refusing to become a first degree free mason because I'm way too advanced for that soykaf. They made me homeless and put me in jail for petty crimes and I lost everything. End up in unit 33 of all places. fuarrrking fuarrrk the Knights of the Lambda Calculus I'll kill 'em all dead. Only existing relic of my previous computer. How sad.>>85438

>>85952 Oh wow that's nice to hear, used to use KDE but left to MATE and XFCE after the 6.0 due to the instability. >I would say it has made XFCE irrelevant. Debatable, it has a place for those who want something GTK based and a middle ground between MATE and other DEs, but I do think it's on borrowed time. The GNOME team has been driving the GTK toolkit off a bridge and there's only so much that can be done to mitigate the GNOME-ification of the entire GTK toolkit.

Using Fedora Silverblue for the piece of mind

>>85952 >I would say it has made XFCE irrelevant. That'd be nice but PCManFM and Openbox are still missing some nice features that Thunar and xfwm4 have. Also true the other way around. I continue to wish for the day that someone combines all the stuff in Openbox and xfwm4 into a single ultimate window manager.

>>85981 i'm sorry to hear that, Lainfren, i hope you find a place where you belong irl soon, and get out of jail asap. stay strong. the revenge agains those fuarrrking knights is to live your best life, remember

>>86056 Incredible. this version looked amazing in retrospect. i'm surprised you're still using one of those macs they've gotta be 20 at this point or something.

>>84320 reinstalled mint on my PC!

>>86182 comfy and nostalgic, i like it!

>>86186 Thanks lainon :) not my first time using Linux by any means but switched my daily driver from Windows 11 to Mint and I've having a lot of fun with it

>>86182 Mint was my first ever foray outside the windows/mac dichotomy so this brings back pleasant memories. How are you enjoying it so far? Anything you like/dislike about the linux experience?

>>84320 Hello lainanons, how are you all doing :)

>>86190 nothing i particularly dislike so far! i've had a lot of linux experience in the past but started using windows as my main os a year or two ago, so it's been nice to get back into it. i also just finished a linux tools and scripting class at my university which kinda inspired me to revisit it. it's super fun when you know how the shell and a lot of the tools work, and i'm really enjoying it! it seems like gaming support has gotten much much better as of late which is nice, although kernel-level anticheat still gets in the way of some AAA games. using it as an excuse to revisit some indie games i like :)

>>86187 i've been using linux for years and mint is still one of my favourite distros. i personally use fedora (mostly because it has more updated packages) but mint is like the linux equivalent of a big hug from an old friend. super comfy! if it was based on debian testing, it'd be perfect.

>>85438 this is what my windows looks like, my dumbass fuarrrked the linux up and accidentally rm rf'ed my wifi driver folder and don't know how to get it back. i dont really care that much about techy stuff because im never going to be good at it

>>86199 Nice! Do you have font anti-aliasing on? Or is that a true bitmap font? I love the vibe, I think that might make it more crisp looking

>>85640 I've honestly gone from ricing my desktop to just hyper autistically optimizing my system/kernel/resource useage to be as low to the ground as I'm physically capable of understanding. Even on my main rig I want it to be a feather

>>86052 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

>>86182 Looks great! What icon theme is that?

>>86233 Thanks! It's just a Windows XP icon theme for Cinnamon, I forget the exact one but the name is on the fastfetch :)

>>85403 >>85406 I don't use Wayland but dwl is another option. >>86199 Wallpaper?

>>86257 Xfce rlly caches 4gb of ram doing nothing, do you also have the lid closing bug that plagues xfce on intel?

>>86319 That's weird, Xfce ram usage is very low for me even after sustained periods. Lid closing bug hmmmm... I don't think I have that problem despite being on intel graphics but I vaguely remember in the past that closing the lid was locking my session despite the configuration I made but eventually I fixed that

>>84320 I use a tablet as my main desktop computer nowadays because my use case doesn't require anything a simple smartphone can do, having a bigger screen and overall form factor makes for something better than a smartphone for actual computer stuff, all the while making for a very portable computer that's comfortable to take with me, especially on trips, or just use in my bed too.

>>86331 nojo.

I see most are Void distro where is Gentoo?

>>86331 Thats really cool, what brand of tablet is it? Iirc some have desktop modes. Do you still have a regular PC you use for anything?

First time linux user, so chose mint. Running on an old optiplex from 2008. Looking for some more advanced wm or other ricing tools

>>86331 I could understand not wanting to risk bricking it installing a custom rom but you can disable most Google apps without issue so long as you have a replacement. I did this with my phone and it feels more mine now. >>86335 The shopping bag logo is the Samsung app store and the flower icon is the Samsung gallery so it's a Samsung.

>>86339 >Samsung I see. Honestly with DeX as a (soykafty) DE and Termux (I think people have gotten Wine/Box86 working) you could probably get as much use out of it as a janky netbook. It's disgraceful how much worse the apple ecosystem is in comparison

>>86332 No need to be mean, anon. >>86335 It's a Galaxy Tab A8, one of Samsung's budget options, I got it used for dirt cheap just to see if I'd like tablets, and to my surprise I ended up loving it, I wish it had a proper desktop mode, but only its successor, the A9 Plus, and the midrange or flagship lineups have DeX. I plan on getting a tablet with a desktop mode next time now that I know I like them enough to replace my actual computers. I still have a laptop that I love using from time to time, especially for those few tasks that just function better on a proper computer OS. >>86339 I don't really mind the default applications, I've disabled or unninstalled most bloat I wouldn't use, but those applications I knew I'd use? I preferred to just keep them instead of going for an alternative, a part of me would've preferred to do what you said, I do run Linux on my laptop for that very reason, but Android and One UI are sort of cyberhumped by default, so I figured it wasn't worth trying to make them feel more like a proper FOSS Linux device since I'll never really get that on Android and One UI. Anyways, it works well enough for my use case currently.

>>86337 Keep it simple, even something as simple as Cairo Dock is enough to grind my 2.8ghz C2D to a halt sometimes with the amount of HDD caching it does. Xfce is not a good performer when you start fuarrrking around with it, esp on kernel 6.8 When you get sick of the sluggish performance of xfce, consider moving to windowmaker or JWM

>>86416 I'm interested in GrapheneOS, but I've heard bank applications don't work on it, is that true?

>>86453 Most banking apps (and apps in general) work perfectly well but it's worth looking up whichever ones you use just in case. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/ Any issues are almost always the fault of either Google's monopolistic practices or inept app devs (Revolut and Authy being two examples). While I personally haven't had any issues, if I do I'd try my damndest to avoid said app, although I understand that's unfortunately not possible in some situations. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878067304840664

>>84415 This reply is really appealing to me, spending many years seeking a sort of escapism through virtual realms sometimes I wonder how everything would be if I could actually bear reality in a way like that

>>86458 Thanks for the info, anon!

It's a complete mess but it looks pretty to me (sometimes)

>>86521 >XFCE >Laptop I'm sorry

>>86337 >>86524 Is it LMDE and did you add the Kicksecure repository and harden it with CLI? >https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Debian#CLI_version

>>86524 Is that xeyes in that taskbar lool

>>86521 i love burial, respect

>>86561 oh heck yes it is fren

My heart is torn between MATE and Cinnamon

>>85452 Would you want to drink some matiensos amargos with don satur de grasa while watching serial experiments lain?

>>85455 care to share the pape?

>>85455 what's up with the machine that this is on? looks like you have too much ram and the processor doesn't match what I thought clamshells used to have

>>86331 >>86411 I've made some changes, sure it's still not a proper desktop mode, but the edge panel Galaxy Tabs have reminds me of Ubuntu, and it fits my use case pretty nicely, despite it not being a real taskbar and desktop mode... floating windows and this bar help.

>>86182 Is the theme you're using "B00merang Project XP"? I have XFCE, and I'd like to use it, although I don't know if it works in XFCE (since everyone I've seen that uses it uses Cinnamon). Those who have XFCE use xfce-winxp-tc (like >>85438, i think), but it's not a theme; it's more of an "XP emulation." The taskbar isn't the original one; you have to install an additional one that emulates XP, which looks broken and generally looks bad. Is it possible to have an XP theme like the "B00merang Project XP" one, or should I switch to Cinnamon? Thanks

i creamed my undies the first time i started e16

>>86810 Too bad enlightenment has become utter dogshit in the modern day, have you used the post 2018 releases? It's incredibly ugly, buggy and slow. Worse than gnome, a big shame since I really did dig it around 2014 or so when it was essentially THE best DE

>>86815 E16 is still maintained to this day and it shares no code with any Enlightenment version from 17 onwards, see https://www.enlightenment.org/e16

>>85611 can u share the nice lainchan custom css? stylus?

why are modern systems so bloated :(

>>86849 Memory not used is memory wasted (until you actually need it, that is). Wtf is that resolve program doing though?

Been trying out Gentoo for couple of weeks now, started as a challenge but I'm enjoying the experience

>>86860 SUPER CLEAN RICING <3

Heres mine.

>>86851 Ignoring the absurd memory usage, wtf is gnome doing using 10% of a 4790k at idle?? My iMac has 4gb of ram and ur using 5.6gb doing nothing..

>>86191 that better not be home or pro

>>86903 Its literally all the same garbage

Daily driving NsCDE for a few years now, and I don't think I'll go for another DE anytime soon. It strikes the perfect balance between "everything is already configured" and "everything can be throroughly customized". And nothing beats the CDE look with actual modern usability under the hood. It's the only computer I own, and I use it for basically everything.

>>84367 >lightweight disto >lightweight desktop >lightweight virtualized OS >fuarrrking kitty terminal

>>87195 Looks nice but I'm on the edge of having an autistic meltdown by seeing how much proprietaryslop is downloaded on a GNU/Linux system

>>87201 >downloaded Aren't most of those web services? > Spotify > ??? > Gemini > OpenAI > ??? > Deepseek > ??? > Mistral AI > One Drive > Google Drive > GMail > Some Google video thing > Some Google calendar thing > ??? > ??? > ??? > Google Docs – I'm not sure, but it would fit with the proprietary webcrap trend > ??? > Google Translate > Github – Why not a round icon? > VSCode – Finally a local app! Or is it? > Generic Terminal Emulator – Please tell me this one isn't web-based at least > ???

>>87172 That some sort of shimeji desktop "pet" thing going there?

>>87195 >>87203 >>87204 Obviously, this is AI generated fud, ignore it.

>>87222 More like "write a whole lot of nothing and wage slave proprietary spyware". I hope you understand that your overly verbose style is not pleasant to read.

Stop arguing with LLM's you retarded glitterboys And do your job jannies, this is clearly a bot (if I had to guess it's probably just some p4jeet trying to look smart with an LLM but I digress)

>>87230 Ok, let's assume he's not an LLM guys, maybe he's been so influenced by AI sloppy text (because yes a bunch of spaghetti paragraphs to express what could be said in 2 sentences seems pretty much like it came off of an LLM) that he learned it's fine to write like that... I'm 95% sure he just copypasted a cGPT response but if we gave him the benefit of the doubt, it may just be a victim of the modern internet. Still, my commens have been removed before for WAY less, so, having that into account, the most logical path would be for mods to delete his replies

>>87205 Kinda, it's an ukagaka. Shimeji are purely cosmetic, while ukagaka tend to have a few useful interactive functions and/or a lot of programmed random dialogue, and some of them even have text stories, full-fledged lore (Mayura was the one that made it popular), and the like. Weeb garbage, basically. The one I'm using is FoxTheory: https://nao-fox.github.io/index.html

>>87236 I didn't know there was a more specific term for that. Good to know. Thanks.

Posted in this thread already (>>85074, no I have not changed distros yet), but I'm setting up windowmaker and don't really have any complaints aside from various systemtray issues and icons looking weird. >>87172 Interesting DE, might look into it if windowmaker ends up not working out.

>>87172 This looks very good, is the sacrifice in windows real estate worth it with the bottom bar? Also, what epub reader are you using?

>>87243 Nice! Although the system tray seems a bit out of place. A dockapp for windowmaker called wmsystray may look better.

>>87172 I've been wanting to try NsCDE for a while, I always liked how it looks. Also, merveilles is such a beautiful album, I could just listen to it forever

>>84320 >eclipse Strong good memories using eclipse in high school and college. Really enjoyed getting a nice monokai theme loaded into it and writing some clojure back in the day.

>>87229 It's clearly just a massive autist, not I'm not sure what their goal is, it's funny regardless.

its cacti season boys, just planted more PT today

>>87257 Thanks lain! >wmsystray I was having issues running it, some error about missing colors or fonts. did ldd wmsystemtray and it seems I have all the required packages, so I'm not sure what's going wrong (and Artix doesn't have many x11 font packages to begin with). Maybe I'll try building from the AUR instead of compiling from the tarball, but using the AUR on Artix tends to be a gamble.

>>87285 Many window managers including some tiling ones have a command line argument '--replace' (or '-r', check in the manual of a particular WM), which replaces the current running WM with this one. And xfce session makes the change persistent without any additional steps, if I remember correctly. But it's totally possible to make xfce keyboard-friendly without a tiling WM. This article has some good points about it (although I don't completely agree with the author): http://xahlee.info/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html

>>85398 >>85480 Nice pape. Mind to share?

I'm sorry ok, I have like 5 OSs and debian is my favorite but I need this piece of shi for overclocking. Windows 11 is objectively one of the worst pieces of S I've ever used trust me literally a broken arch install is better anyone saying otherwise can't be trusted

>Back Porch Tapes TV Check it out

The best DE for every device. This is not an opinion, this is a fact.

>>87507 What machine is that?

>>87336 Very nice. What's that icon theme called again?

>>87512 Seems like Mint-X or Obsidian, but I'm not sure.

>>87512 Icon and GTK theme are both mint-x.

>>86862 is that scientifica? and how have you faired with mksh? I usually go for ksh 93u+m for all my Korning needs

>>87504 anyone know the font?

>>87520 >is that scientifica? No, it's Tewi. >mksh I've been using mksh for about 8 years. It's fantastic.

>>87661 Why is someone who uses Linux a neet? My mechanical and electrical teachers use Linux, mainly fedora and debian, and the company I work for uses debian on many systems. I thought this view that Linux is only for geeks was over.

>>87661 Go back to halfchan with your low-effort, low-iq posts.

>>87666 Actually, if truth is to be spoken, a lot of normal people dislike using linux while doing their job, because the UI is soykafty (always has been). Back when Windows 7 was meta, Linux basically had no excuses. But nowadays people hate Windows 10/11 as much as they hate Linux. Windows 11 arguably receives more hate. It's not Linux Desktop's achievement. It's just Windows declining in quality to Linux Desktop's level in terms of (G)UI. It's really too complicated for average users (/=retards, the world is larger than your OS). It's a shame that the trannies who develop Linux Deskop right now are the same moronic Indians who ruined Windows 7.

>>87671 I understand what you mean, the people I know use gnome and kde without modification most of the time, my teachers say they use it because it's a good tool, at work they use it because it's stable, I think everyone has their reasons in the end. The question of Windows 7 and Windows in general, I agree, I think that sometimes modernization is overdone.

>>87671 I should also have pointed out that technical people are less interested in GUIs and more in tools.

>>87679 GNOME and KDE are very counter productive. They are also large and very unstable. They also harm ecosystem by fostering moronic programming. They are only popular because the Big Daddy advertises them and makes them default on his Big Distros. If a distro just shipped a decent configuration of i3+picom & openbox+picom, usability -wise it would surpass both GNOME and KDE. And it's piss easy to configure either. >>87680 Outside of coreutils and some other critical tools designed by competent people (like smartd, bcron, openntpd etc you get what I mean), linux tooling is just different flavors of dogshit, both CLI- and API-wide.

>>87681 Well, I understand your point, I basically use xfce and windowmaker, I don't like twm. > If a distro had a decent configuration of i3+picom and openbox+picom, in terms of usability, it would surpass GNOME and KDE. And it's very easy to configure either of them. Like manjaro i3wm, mxlinux and Crunchbang++? Or do you have something else in mind?

>desktop thread >nine posts in a row >zero desktops what has lainchan fallen to I guess I'll just have to post mine then

>>84360 >vlc as root >4 different copies of xeyes in the taskbar >3? different taskbar fish >seconds in the clock >to do list.odt >vlc volume above 100%, system tray volume below 100% some of the most chaotic energy I've ever seen in a desktop screenshot. Bravo.

>>85109 can you share that wallpaper plss?

>>87723 The VLC as root might just be a flatpak thing, flatpak programs show as running as superuser for me too and I never bothered to figure out why or if it can be changed

Current desktop. Running Big Sur on early 2011 MacBook Pro 13". Probably going to switch to Linux when support drops.

>>87801 How does youtube runs on this laptop? I was planning on getting one for a relative that only uses youtube

No fetch on hand but: Fedora, kde, wayland, zsh, 5950x, 5700xt, 32gb ram, 16tb storage, 0 uptime, born 4 months ago, flatpak & dnf, kitty and konsole,

I really enjoy Gentoo. Did you know it comtains native tools for cross-compilation?

>>86524 XFCE is comfy as fuarrrk.

>>87879 lol @xfce, truly handsome men use CDE Desktop or Motif with XTerm (like 1987 Workstations)

>>87880 I'd run CDE if there weren't unfixed vulnerabilities from the 90's which are listed on their fuarrrking sourceforge page plus the potential hundreds of undiscovered ones. https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ not even worth working on it if you wanted to bring back unix companies since they released it as GPL. it's crap code sadly just like the whole motif library, sorry to disillude you.

>>87881 if you really dislike CDE, CTWM is much more lightweight than that of CDE desktop. I'm using it at the moment.

>>87908 i'd just use fvwm with a ctwm theme than using ctwm itself as EWMH implementation is limited

>>87881 There is NsCDE which consists of FVWM and a collection of GUI scripts and theme templates. I've never tried it, because I liked FVWM, but some say it's comfy. https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

>>87911 >>87915 I used fvwm before, but I found it a bit sluggish especially when resizing or dragging windows. NsCDE has got the same issue, to be saucepanest. Motif and ctwm tend to be a lot leaner overall, not as bloated.

>>87908 no, you misunderstand. i don't dislike CDE, i fuarrrking love CDE and its aesthetic, but one has to be rational when looking at piece of soykaf code. i'd pick IRIX's 4dwm too, but i bet it's the same crap if they ever release the source code for that. corporate unix desktops just weren't made with security in mind before. no one expected a $ 100k SGI machine to be used as a consumer computer facing wide area network, they expected it to be in a LAN corporate office behind firewalls. cde in particular is made to be used on a LAN office with other cde desktops with all the (vulnerable) communication protocols running in the background by default. they tried.

>>87367 here it is, gosh the body too short thing is annoying

>>85125 What's the source of your wallpaper here?

>>87955 I thought it looked like Tsukumizu, and indeed it was https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=9854808

Still need to fix terminal colors. Other than that I can't really think of any problems I have with my setup

>>87371 after suffering an unfortunate 'sudo dd' accident, first of its kind in 5 years, im currently running a broken arch install. can confirm, still a better experience than windows 11.

I enjoy so many of your desktops. Keep up the good work Lain. I especially like the BSD ones. I am sharing my desktop, my desktop, and my desk top. As well as a closeup of the thing that allows us to connect our physical bodies to the wired via the tips of our fingers. Brain, fingers, keyboard, wired. Something like that- my particular apparatus is more than meets the eye. Unassuming but the only one of it's exact form in the entire world. Not another soul alive or dead is using a Pro 2 with the specific variation of domes, sliders, PCB, keycaps contained within this vessel here, and if there was it's highly unlikely they could see the beauty in this particular arrangement. I like to use Linux from the framebuffer via a terminal multiplexer, in my preference Tmux, as my default for using the computer. Most any basic tasks that I use the computer for can be done this way, from reading digital textbooks or pdfs, to writing, programming, using emacs, playing dungeon crawl stone soup, managing files or other NAVIs, listening to music, browsing imageboards, calculators, and much more. And because it's all in a terminal I can SSH from other machines including my soyphone and pick up wherever I left off with all my programs. And of course, if I need to do something graphical I can just startx to launch my preferred window manager, of which i like dwm and awesomeWM the most so far, and don't really care for a DE on my personal devices to reduce unnecessary packages but have used a number of them previously. As for my main NAVI - it fulfills a couple different usecases, mostly more intensive tasks that require more processing, networking, memory, storage, and so on, and has dedicated system drives for each usecase, represented on my front I/O as those blue LEDs, which has physical buttons to cut power to certain drives. One is W10 for Vidya, VMs, and proprietary software (I have a Simrig). One is qubesOS. Nearby I also have a small rpi4 with openmediavault on it for Jellyfin, and serves as a small NAS config / personal dropbox for moving specific or smaller sets of files between devices where immediately or directly transferring between them isn't ideal, or like stuff that I want to still be able to access when all my other machines are powered off. There is a MicroTik Routerboard, and an old Riverbed Steelhead firewall with pfSense on it. Lain is no sysadmin but something a little more spiritual. When I was a little younger and didn't yet have a job I was still very much into computers and had made a mix-matched, hodge-podge setup with an old Viewsonic CRT my neighbor was getting rid of, and a cheap Dell tower that came with WinXP. At times we didn't have internet because my Mom didn't want it or pay for it, so I'd just get burned discs of various software from friends, and collect PC-dvds. I was really into ricing even back then, using rocketdock, and blackbox for windows (which i still use a version of today on the W10 drives. I played so much offline Battlefield 2142, Morrowind, Diablo 2, WC3, RCT2, et al. At friends houses though, I got a taste of the internet and it was so glorious of a feeling. Hours spent on that one chan..yknow the one.. Club Penguin, newgrounds, Quake, Vanilla WoW, CS, it was blowing my mind. I had to connect. I frequently went to a nearby Goodwill and on one such occasion got an old fuarrrked up Linksys WRT54G. I put dd-wrt on it at the time, and set it up as a WiFi adapter of sorts, allowing me first to connect to the neighbors, and eventually to our home router during periods when we had internet paid for. That feeling of flashing this custom software onto it, and making it into something that I could use to actually get online from my own bedroom finally, and succeeding. It's a feeling that I've felt so many times tinkering with things, trying to make a certain thing a reality, uncertain how but willing to fumble your way through one step at a time. I guess I got a little carried away, and yet barely scratched the surface, but sometimes it's worth remembering how you got here. Especially in spite of how the spirit of everything changed so much when it comes to the wired and computers, seemingly fallen far from grace - corrupted and invasive, with soul remaining in fewer and fewer places over time - no longer a place to escape to but a place to escape from. I feel I still carry on that oldnet ethos that I had then, and if old me could see the setup I (still) play Diablo 2 from while listening to great music with headphones, (I) would be mind-blown. Especially when it comes to being able to finally play anything we could ever dream of playing back then, on pretty much one single machine.. and the speeds.. I'd faint. You're telling me downloads are over 1MB? Let alone in the hundreds to potentially thousands if you have the right setup.. I'd faint. --- ...- . .-. .- -. -.. --- ..- -

>>87994 that is one fuarrrked up keyboard, cool ms-20 mini though

>>88016 glad to see another HHKB appreciator here, albeit on mine the right function block with backspace enter etc doesn't have the gaps. I briefly used one at a friends and got one myself very soon after, haven't looked back since. I never look at the keys

>>88016 thicc thorpe thock city folks just don't get it I've been wanting to do a checkerboard HHKB but it's been a while since I had that kind of gravy. Used to use that trackball too, was pretty notbad for playing FPS except the rollers like to gum up every 10 minutes. L-Trac master race et cetera blah blah, though to be honest people have been going hard on novel trackball production lately and there's a lot of stuff I'm looking forward to exploring there.

>>88016 I was just thinking of the mismatched keycaps, no offense was meant. HHKB is great and I wish laptops shipped with the layout >such a small thing with so much capability Yeah! For the price I'd personally prefer something like a 0-coast hooked up to a keystep but the ms-20 is great too. It's nice to see semimodular fans (hell, synth fans in general) here regardless, if only there actually was a thread for it

>>85981 AND AGAIN 666 KILL EM ALL

>>84320 >>84420 its fair to stop giving a soykaf about computers but to me this feels performative because if you really even knew anything to begin with you'd just stay on whatever you were on lmfao

>>86851 Editing 4k raw footage. I think the 3gb is still pretty impressive

Found my older rant regarding Bazzite: >>88650. Wanna know how I solved that? I stopped updating automatically. I do manual updates every once in a while. Because of atomic/containerized nature of the system I believe it's less important to update often.

>>87723 >system tray volume below 100% This makes sense to me. Games for example open up with max volume and blow your ears of on first boot. Being able to limit all program's volume to an acceptable level that they can't control seemt like the right thing to do.

NixOS with Sway! I like this. It's tiling, and wayland. All I need.

>>84320 Does anyone here know how to make Macos look nice? i sometimes miss my linux

Because of Wayland. I need waydroid to pentest mobile apps, and waydroid more stable for me

lo key new to ts but hope yg think it cool

>>90176 atleast organize the dock, too much clutter

wallpaper? >body 2 short blahblahblah

>>84320 so many good desktops almost all saved for inspiration...

>>84320 Is anyone else here part of the tablet master race?

>>84323 arrowvortex!!! i dont have much to show, i recently deleted my .config directory by accident and im still in the process of setting things up

>>85307 me too, i started with arch + i3 and everything else feels weird to use. if i had to choose a DE though it would be LXQT

>>90141 What's with the naked woman as a wallpaper?

>>85370 heyo! i actually follow you on github! your GUI framework is goated as fuarrrk

Stopped using windowmaker a while back and am really happy with LXQT, very themable yet lightweight. >>90367 I've considered it, but then I remember all the windows warts I never liked (dogshit file manager, horrible terminal, fiddling with the registry just to get simple features, installing printers, driver trouble, etc). Linux, for all of its glaring flaws, is a much nicer experience at the end of the day.

Set up a secondhand laptop for my new course next month. Pandas are essential. I used FreeBSD on an old laptop but this is just a computer for basic schoolwork while away from my desktop so I decided is regular old Mint will do the job. I dunno how much I'm willing to rice

>>87908 fellow seamonkey user

> And if you feel like it, tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for :D I used Bazzite before but at some point I was very depressed and wanted to make myself busy with something I don't do often. Also around that time systemd's skeletons in the closet popped up more visibly so when choosing between NixOS and Gentoo I decided to go for the latter, even though I like the idea of declarative configs and immutable OS. I also considered Guix, but after playing around in VM I realized it's unusable for me, even the most basic things require declaring tons of custom packages all by yourself. To be fair, I'm way more happy with Gentoo than I anticipated. It isn't exactly declarative, but it's very config driven in a very nice way. It isn't immutable, but it's probably the best you can get while being mutable and doing things traditional way. And this has plenty of its own benefits over immutability ofc.

>Why Got tired of dealing with Void/Artix for 3 years and editing my i3wm's to the smallest detail when I was tired from work or high, this is comfier >What for Light programming / browsing / Text docs

>>92909 Nice kernel, senior. Was there any extra work to make kernel modules work?