Desktop thread

>>84320 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 Here is my desktop, made using assets from "Let's play with Sakura" and other places, as well as (parts of) a custom wintc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc). Styling the default xfce panel with anything other than a flat background is broken, I should replace it sometime. That's the only PC I have in addition to my work laptop, so I do just about anything on it from playing games to coding. I often have a video or music playing in the background, that's what the space in the corner is for.

> why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM Bazzite because I wanted to get as much preconfigured as possible + have bulletproof atomic distro with containerized workflow by default > and what you use your device for gaming, 3dcg, gd, coding

>>88104 Ricing is simply using Breeze windows decorations (to be able to keep rounded window borders even when window is maximized) + color theme + messing a lot with panel colorizer (like creating invisible empty panel at top, bottom and right side of the screen to keep some padding for maximized windows).

I'm using Android 14/One UI 6.1 because my Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is unironically my main computer. I use a laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 and another one with Windows 10 from time to time, but rarely, the one I use daily for 99% of taks is my tablet. Battery's way better than on the laptops, and it's just more portable and ready for use at all time, it's just easier for me, it's cozy. >>88098 This is lovely and full of personality, OP! Good stuff. >>88104 I love the colors and overall moody vibe in this one. A forest is always nice, especially like this, it's comfortable.

I like Void Linux because it's simple and easy to configure the way I want. But generally, I don't care about Linux distros nowadays. I would run anything if it had relatively fresh packages and didn't break on every update.

>>88124 > I would run anything if it had relatively fresh packages and didn't break on every update. That's what atomic/immutable distros are good for. Especially when they come with stuff like distrobox/toolbox to build/run apps from source in whatever debian/arch ecosystem they support best.

> tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for :D I only use the simplest OS, man. I'll probably try GhostBSD and then FreeBSD sometime soon. I use XFCE and will continue to use XFCE until I decide it's no longer enough. I only use my PC for home use, browsing, email, a few games, and basic programming, since I'm not in IT.

>>88124 >2 days without accidents I hope the day finds you well

>>88161 Oh boy, he found out about lainchan..

>>88163 who is he? him using windows was a pretty good kek for me

its been posting here for over 5 years now

just finished installing btw >why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM idk, maybe i subconsciously think that using a less popular os makes me cool, and kde plasma is just best by test >what you use your device for downloading and reading ebooks and going on the world wide webs

>>88194 How well does freeBSD manage ram usage? I want to use it but I don't know if 8gb of ram is enough.

>>88195 i haven't tested it out yet but afaik 8 gigs should be way alright, though looking it up i found conflicting opinions so...

>>88198 And so I'm in the same situation as you, well, thanks anyway, I'll see what I can do and if I can gather more information before I embark on freebsd

Love the Cardcaptor Sakura setup OP >>88195 You could consider NomadBSD if you really want to get extra use of your ram. It is a more streamlined FreeBSD that was meant to be able to run on thumb drives and requires only 1GB ram.

>>88200 I was thinking of using ghostbsd for a while until I got used to the new type of system, then go to freebsd, use it with XFCE, but at boot it already uses 2gb of ram, but even using it all day, the ram doesn't exceed 4gb used.

>>88195 >How well does freeBSD manage ram usage? I want to use it but I don't know if 8gb of ram is enough. You could use it with just a hundred mbs of ram, the system itself is pretty lightweight. What can increase ram usage a lot is ZFS but 8gb should be enough, even if you want to use ZFS. >>88201 What are you measuring ram usage with? I think that programs made for Linux report ram that has been allocated rather than ram that is currently being used. The more accurate measurements are those given by vmstat(8).

>>88202 I understood what you meant, I used the top to measure the ram used, you gave me a more detailed view of what bsd itself is. Thank you. God bless you, I'll try to use ghostbsd and study more about zfs and alternatives...

>>88202 > What are you measuring ram usage with? I think that programs made for Linux report ram that has been allocated rather than ram that is currently being used. The more accurate measurements are those given by vmstat(8). That isn't what I personally measured it is the suggested required specs to run it says you need at least 1GB of ram while GhostBSD recommends 4GB in both cases it will be less than that. So regardless it will be lower ram usage. That is assuming you aren't wanting to run a server which this version of BSD isnt geared for that

Just switched to mint, it's a nice distro

>>88248 What do you like about it? Do you use foobar through wine, any issues with that?

>>88249 >What do you like about it? It was very easy to setup and it runs very well, I don't use my computer for much besides playing music and maybe watching movies, the few games I play run well, that's why I think it is a nice distro >Do you use foobar through wine, any issues with that? Yeah, no problems whatsoever besides not having the option to have a dark mode, but it doesn't matter, foobar has always been my favorite player since it's very customizable and it's nice to see all the visualizers when you play a song

>>88248 mint was what i got weened on for gnu/linux, it worked pretty nicely. once my use got a bit more demanding though, i moved on to other distros. glad you're enjoying it.

ive been using slackware since ~2017 because it kinda just never breaks. i update all packages about once every 2 months or so on the -current branch, it all works flawlessly and has since when i first installed it. i've tried different distros but im just too used to having my entire os be made up of shell scripts now. i like openbox because it's minimal enough that i can go in and add things to it if i want to and it works nice with cortile when i want tiling.

Operating through virtual machines is like kicking dead whales down the beach, these threads make me miss having a single, comfy desktop.

>>88257 Nice and comfy. >>88251 >>88258 My use is very demanding, I have (!!) Bazzite, you'd think it's entrylevel distro for gamers, but it's fuarrrking great for everything. Ofc it's because it's actually a Fedora Atomic. I can do anything I could ever want in distrobox and toolbox, which are basically docker (podman) containers with automatic passthrough of everything. Lets say you want to build something from source with tons of specific dependencies, it's officially well-known to build well on Arch. You create distrobox Arch container and do it there using native Arch way without cluttering your host os or other distorbox containers, and even if it's a game it will work at native performance because of full automatic passthrough of gpu/audio/networking/etc.

I use arch mainly because it's fun and I really like pacman. Mostly use it for gaming, music production, and sometimes watching stuff >>88098 Very comfy desktop. I've never read CCS but the art style has always stood out to me >>88124 I like this. Comfy and not too crazy >>88147 Very beautiful...pure >>88257 Openbox user spotted. I bow to you sir, your desktop looks absolutely glorious. I love the windows and fonts, the colors, everything >>88262 This is really cool. what bar is that?

>>88098 Good day. Your desktop is delightful. It is cosy and comforting. I was wondering if you were willing to share your wallpaper. >why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, Arch just does what I want it to do, which is, be convenient and not much else. I want to choose my components and install them onto a minimal base, and I'm willing to do a bit of leg work. >what you use your device for :D Primarily art, I draw every day. Then a bit of graphic design, video editing, art scraping and archiving for my friends, a tinge of gaming.

>>88098 I've been using GNU/Linux since '15, started with bare archwiki install, did it in two days and setup an experimental audio system on an X201, bridging Mixxx with Bitwig, keep in mind there was no pipewire at the time.. After major distrohopping, I settled on Mint Victoria, with Zara packages for the new Mint-Y-Teal themes, libadwaita1-0 and Captain, the OS is max optimised for audio in every way imagine, running on my second and final ThinkPad, the X201 had a homemade display replacement and I opened it to bare bones, until the ~12" display became a nuisance. You can pretty much tell what I use my device for from my panel and the long reply, the icon after GIMP is MIxxx beta This has been my only PC since late '19, just got a proper GrapheneOS after years of headaches The tray has a few very good applets, including Meteo-powered weather, a monochrome toggle and a color picker, also I had to manually dig for hours to fix up bluetooth Maybe DeviantArt can find you a flat wallpaper, also I suggest you try MATE, it's on par with Cinnamon when it comes to KISS

>>88248 Props for foobar2000 >>88262 This one takes the cake

>>88259 i never really got the "distro for gaming" or whatever soykaf, like gnu/linux is about freedom to set it up for whatever you want. you can do all of that stuff with basically any major functioning distro yeah? anyway glad you're having fun. laptop is on endeavor but is more comfy than my desktop, so here ya go.

>>88112 >>88267 >>88269 Thanks for the comments. After using it for a bit (it was a fresh install when I posted), I can confirm that XFCE is comfy. I was using dwm before and it's a nice change of pace. Here is the wallpaper. It's a high-resolution remake of this one from Let's Play with Sakura (you can find the .iso on archive.org). Compared to my first post, I adjusted the colors slightly to be closer to the original.

>>88104 >>88194 >>88248 Those are what I generally don't like in those threads. Flat, dark-theme and a standard task-bar. They all end up samey-looking and boring. >>88147 The choice of dark bars, and light window borders and terminal feels strange. >>88257 I like your desktop. I don't really know why, but it looks comfy. >>88267 That's a nice collection of games. >>88269 Nice painting. I like your desktop too. It seems purposefully minimalist-looking. >>88272 Very cute. How comfortable is living in the terminal in Japanese? I've seen many TUIs choke on double-width glyphs.

>>88277 how'd you get librewolf on void? is it built from source?

>>88278 I used the method of installing via the repository, which is very simple. https://github.com/index-0/librewolf-void

>>88098 > why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM i use debian because it just works perfectly, xfce is simple and light and looks cool btw > and what you use your device for listen music, chilling, etc

>>88098 >tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM Fluxbox WM, because it's an Openbox-like WM with support for window tabbing. >and what you use your device for work and hobby CAD + programming.

>>88276 > Flat, dark-theme and a standard task-bar The >>88104 isn't standard taskbar, it's combination of panel-colorizer (custom panel + effects), fake invisible panel-colorizer panels for padding, abandoning default window decorations for Breeze for the sake of being able to have rounded corners in maximized windows, and color scheme ripped and customized for Dolphin from a nice but unworkable theme. This is how Bazzite looks by default: https://bazzite.gg/content/uploads/2025/07/kde.webp >>88272 > i never really got the "distro for gaming" or whatever soykaf, like gnu/linux is about freedom to set it up for whatever you want. It's atomic/immutable distro with latest steam, wine, proton, lutris, nvidia, wayland, etc, in the host layer, and everything else installing via flatpak, or manually in distrobox/toolbox containers. It's perfectly bulletproof and at the same time perfectly preconfigured and up-to-date for gaming. Best of all worlds. You can DIY something as bulletproof on some kind of NixOS I guess, but that's a lot of work. And it's not one-time-work, it's regular work.

>>88282 >perfectly bulletproof >praising flatpak >perfectly preconfigured >best of all worlds god you sound like a corpo wage slave holy soykaf. it really seems like you've got some pretty strong insecurities going on.

>>88284 You sound like you didn't get soykaf broken on linux like 1000 times. Which means you're probably not even using it a lot. Or your usecases are trivial. Like, scrolling a browser and basically it. In which case you don't only not need linux, you don't even need PC altogether.

>>88278 There are appimage and flatpak builds.

>>88284 I'm not the person you're answering, but I have a sincere question. What does using a distro with a specific configuration have to do with security? I'm not even trolling, I'm really curious how you came to this conclusion.

>>88284 Insecurity* Sorry for the error.

i used mint/lmde for a long time, but one day i decided to switch to arch and it was cool until the wifi stopped working after an update. i then tried alpine for a while and now i'm on void and enjoying it a lot. i'm using xfce with i3wm because it just works. i use my puter mostly for writing, watching stuff and making xfce threads on /g/.

>>88307 > i decided to switch to arch and it was cool until the wifi stopped working after an update In Bazzite (and other Fedora Atomic distros), you could just rpm-ostree rollback. You can even pin deployments when you notice they work well to be able to continue trying future updates later while still being able to rollback to any of the pinned ones.

>>88308 that's interesting. i've never tried fedora, i probably will one day if void fails me or if i have the itch to hop again. idk how well it will work on my geriatric t420 though.

>>88310 There's also NixOS that works on a similar but a more flexible principle, there you compose your immutable OS image fully yourself through config file. Every time you commit it, new OS image builds. If it fails, you can boot into any of the previous images (it keeps like a dozen previous ones by default iirc). It's way more work than prebuilt immutable distros, but useful for custom scenarios.

>>88308 Are you shi- promoting red hat or do you genuinely believe that immutable distros solve problems?

>>88308 But also Gnu Guix System, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and any distro with BTRFS and grub-btrfs can do rollbacks. >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Booting_into_snapshots You don't have to distro hop, if you don't want. Just reinstall your $current_distro and use btrfs. I admit that btrfs is not as stable as it could be in some cases. For example, some RAID configurations (like RAID5 or RAID6) are not stable and they can corrupt your data on btrfs. >>88310 The problem with Fedora is that you need to enable the RPM Fusion repo and/or use Flatpak. Fedora doesn't package everything because of Red Hat policy (examples include some codecs and Nvidia drivers).

>>88321 I genuinely believe containerization solve problems and immutable distros enforce it. Just do everything in flatpak/distrobox/toolbox. If you don't need to tinker with system level components use prebuilt systems, if you need to fully DIY, use NixOS.

>>88098 >tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for I had to go with Windows 10 not because of taste but because with the computer I've got, you need a propietary application from razer to change performance modes and stuff like that I tried Pop Os and Manjaro but none of them worked as i wanted them to, so i ended up going back to windows Use it to watch yt videos (which i should stop), make music, listen to a lot of music and play some videogames as well; lately, Cyberpunk 2077 has me hooked! Oh, and I also watch movies from time to time, and chat with people on IRC

>>88325 >I genuinely believe containerization solve problems Which pro- Ah. I'm sorry. Well, have fun!

>>88326 >I had to go with Windows 10 not because of taste but because with the computer I've got, you need a propietary application from razer to change performance modes and stuff like that Have you tried running that application on wine? boot the live mode of any distro from a usb flashDrive, install wine on it, and attempt to run the application with it. you may be lucky, it may work and you'll be free to choose whateve OS you may like better than winbloat10

>>88339 Even if it where to work, i run into another problems when using linux: I can't change the DPI, or the built in screen brightness, and I personally never liked wine. I try to stay as far away from it as i can

>>88343 >I can't change the DPI, or the built in screen brightness Did you even try? >DPI xrandr >screen brightness brightnessctl

Nothing really special. I find dwm great by default, so I don't use any patches. fastfetch shows Debian, but it actually is Kicksecure installed on top of Debian 13

>>88364 Why the fuarrrk is everyone using kicksecure out a sudden? I only knew it as the OS that whonix uses 2 months ago.

>>88307 Is that a book you're reading or did you write that? Anyways it's a lovely desktop.

I like to keep it simple. For a long time I didn't even use a background image, just a color.

>>88394 i wrote it >lovely desktop. thanks!

>>88353 >Did you even try? Yeah, sure As for the commands and solutions you gave; I just cant be bothered to follow em, but thanks anyways

>>88459 is archlinux worth it? i've been thinking about it, recently been learning ubuntu and ubuntu server to make my own home-server with a raspberry pi cluster, then after that I want to delete windows from all of my devices, is this OS worth the time? thanks anyway

>>88507 NTL but i like arch a lot. It's fun to mess around with and pacman is great. You also have the AUR at your disposal as long as you're careful with what you install from there (because none of it's vetted). The addictive part of arch is the blank canvas you have when you first install it. So many choices of WM, DE, apps, themes, you name it. Just my 2 cents

>>88507 I tried many Linux distros, and I like Arch the most. It requires a lot more technical knowledge to do things, than for example Ubuntu or Mint, but you get the latest software and a very customizable system. I settled on Arch as my main system because I like tiling window managers more, and it's the easiest (IMO) Linux distro to customize out of the box. After installation you only have a blank terminal without any GUI so you have to set up everything yourself. Because of that you learn a lot more about maintaining the system and what's installed on it. Plus there Arch wiki is just a gold mine of information, and if you can follow instructions and copy-paste commands, you don't even have to learn that much. But I prefer at least reading the manpages of programs I use to get the gist of what they're doing. Also it's extremely lightweight. Idling it uses around 450 MB of RAM on my machine.

>>88509 >>88513 thanks lainanons, any of you knows about how secure is the OS? (ex: firewalls, antivirus ¿?), i'm not scared of learning how to use Arch by the console at all, because I had fun learning ubuntu server, but sadly i'm not smart enough on this area, sorry if it sounds stupid T_T. Anyways, Arch looks as good as it gets, i'm probably switching to ArchLinux EOY, thanks lainanons

>>88516 I don't use any antivirus or firewall. I don't host anything and don't open any ports to the world. I use common sense and don't download stuff from suspicious sites. Never had a problem.

>>88516 >how secure is the OS? (ex: firewalls, antivirus ¿?), Do you even know how arch works? It's as secure as you make it, both are non-existent by default. >Arch looks as good as it gets ??? a full arch install is just a fuarrrking TTY by default

>>88280 are you from puknumiya (rabskie vymirati)?

>>88525 >Do you even know how arch works? I mean...Kind of? haha, that's why I was asking, I didn't have time enough lately to read too much about it, I was just asking because I was thinking someone could gave me some directions, because as I said, i'm kind of dumb with OS, I just study programming/Data science, i'm sorry if some things that I asked were dumb. Also perhaps I didn't use the right words about Arch, I was saying that it looks like an OS with a lot of potential, I know that at the start it's just a terminal, but I need to learn a lot about it, I hope to be ready to install it and use it on December if they gave me some vacations, thanks anyway lainanon. >>88520 Sounds like a great advice, also as you said, common sense...It would be hard to not download pirate-entertainment but I guess i'll get used to, thanks again

>>88534 >It would be hard to not download pirate-entertainment That you can do

Installed arch hidden in company server, using it remotely All traffic routes through my home server via WireGuard Considering setting up cheap AWS to make the traffic look less suspicious Pretty good workaround for my dying laptop.

>>88561 Cute browser, what is it called? I don't understand your setup. Is your desktop installed on a company server or do you just use it as a private server? The latency would be terrible in the former case.

>>88567 It's Floorp, Firefox optimized by Japanese. UI isn't much different from Firefox, I just did heavy customization There's Linux server at the office - not ESXi, just a regular PC running 24/7. installed VM Arch with QEMU, tunneled it directly to my home network via WireGuard, and route all internet traffic through it. So from the company firewall's perspective, there's no suspicious DNS queries or weird IP connections - just encrypted traffic going to my house. Latency's around 3-4ms. Don't know if that's normal or just Korean internet magic, anyway it feels native 99% of the time.

>>88570 That sounds like a really dumb thing to do with huge risk and very little benefit, but I admire your chutzpah.

>>88561 In a good way, this is the most retarded thing I've ever seen. Long live spergs.

>>88326 why would you even post here you're just embarrassing yourself

>>88326 Pop OS was marketed as "everything works from the box gaming distro" but that was a lie. And look where it is now - barely alive with only bugfixes and security updates, while its devs switched to fulltime Cosmic DE development. I've yet to see another gaming distro as mismanaged as that one.

>>88561 How did you get your vertical tab to look like that?

>>88592 Tree Style Tab(with my hell of band-aid poor css) + TST Colored Tab original css is fine, i just wanted things more compact and got tired of default look. try first and write your better one

Boring tiling wm config incoming. Awesome, picom and a bunch of little utils. A this point I've had this setup for a couple years and I'm quite used to it. I keep all my dotfiles in git. I might move to a wayland compositor if X11 ever gives me trouble. The x220 is my main laptop i travel with, bring to events and whatnot. I dual-boot Arch and Haiku on it. I have a little HP probook as well for more demanding tasks involving virtualization and heavier compilation. That's running a mostly default KDE Plasma w/ Haiku and Windows in VMWare. >>88098 J'aime beaucoup le fond d'écran et les couleurs. >>88112 I've been enjoying the debian VM you can run on modern Pixels. GUI apps should be supported with the next GrapheneOS release. Quite a bit more powerful than termux, though in my opinion Android can't quite match Ubuntu touch as far as convergence is concerned. >>88248 Nice and simple. Curious about fb2k and SoulseekQt though, no native Soulseek clients or Music players do it for you? >>88257 These icons look lovely! >>88262 I like the window borders and pape! >>88269 That font in your taskbar looks really neat. Do you mind sharing, I'd love to use it on my site. >>88307 Do you know a tool to generate such backgrounds?

>>88610 >That font in your taskbar looks really neat. Do you mind sharing, I'd love to use it on my site. It is "Tablon." I don't remember where I got it, so I'll just upload it for you. And while I was at it, I thought, I got a cute collection of nice fonts, so I thought I'd share it all. Here: https://files.catbox.moe/mmju78.xz

>>88630 Sweet, thank you very much!

>>88610 mines even more boring

>>88640 Joke's on you, I find your choice of filesystem makes it a bit interesting.

>>88530 yes, barnaul altayskii kray

>>88641 im using it because it has built in encryption

>>88646 Isn't the way of making a root encrypted gentoo install just: cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/rootp cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/rootp root emerge sys-kernel/ugrd ? I wouldn't risk using an experimental filesystem as my rootfs but I guess the freedom of gentoo is to do whatever so I digress.

>>88610 Is Ubuntu Touch still being updated? How is it regarding applications support? What if I want to use bank applications or maybe emulators like RetroArch for some fun?

I'm pissed off by Bazzite so much. This was my first distro that was both "carefully preconfigured" and "conceptually cool", and they managed to destroy that vibe in basically three days. One update removes toolbox - my favorite tool - which I used in every single one of my demons - not a single one worked with distrobox when I tried to migrate - and the very next update somehow managed to also ruin my terminal - Alacritty - which I layered via rpm-ostree. I rebased to older version and gonna chill for a while, but I'll probably have to move on. Feel bad about putting my trust in this piece of soykaf. My advice - just fuarrrking DIY it from the start - there's no royal way. And nowadays, with LLMs being able to find/filter/summarize all the user manual soykaf for you - it's easier than ever. Just don't forget it will BS a lot and you have to use critical/abstract thinking to ask good clarifying questions that sort everything out. Overall, if you really get this, you can guess which distro I'm moving to from 3 tries.

>>88649 Yup, it's still being updated. New stable version based on Ubuntu 24.04 releases this month. Native applications are still an issue, as it mostly uses Qt5. There is a port of librewolf though. For the rest, you can just run Waydroid, it works pretty well unless your particular apps rely on play integrity. https://docs.waydro.id/faq/google-play-certification

>>88647 you probably would like to boot into it later too. there are multiple ways to do that, one is leaving the /boot out of encryption on a different partition, install grub on that and make the kernel open the luks. another is making grub open the luks, and load the kernel,.which then again has to open the luks, this is usually done by adding a keyfile and make it part of initrd. the latter is more complicated and has restrictions, but obviously has the pro of having your kernel encrypted too. You can find all details on archwiki.

>>88653 >there are multiple ways to do that, one is leaving the /boot out of encryption on a different partition, install grub on that and make the kernel open the luks. I highlighted the steps that are needed to make GRUB detect and unlock the partition in a setup where only the rootfs is encrypted (excluding /boot), I'm not going to write down the whole gentoo installation guide lol. After doing what I've highlighted you just need to follow the install and adjust your kernel using the following: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dm-crypt#Kernel_Configuration >another is making grub open the luks, and load the kernel,.which then again has to open the luks, this is usually done by adding a keyfile and make it part of initrd. the latter is more complicated and has restrictions, but obviously has the pro of having your kernel encrypted too I thought that's the standard.

>>88640 Gentoo morning >bcachefs Hows it working for you?

>>88743 What patches does your dwm bar has? I'm new to dwm and have no idea what i'm doing but yours looks nice

>>88747 Thanks. Not too many but there is also some personal code to make patches work together. Here is the list: 01-dwm-pertarg-incnmasterfix-6.4.diff - makes layouts tag specific instead of one layout at the time for whole wm 02-dwm-awesomebar-fixed-6.4.diff - turns dwm bar into something like windows task bar by listing all open windows instead of showing only selected one. Also allowing to hide windows. 03-dwm-statusallmons-6.2.diff - puts status text on all monitors instead of only selected one. 04-dwm-bar-height-spacing-6.3.diff - allows to hardcode bar height to make it more slim 05-dwm-xrdb-alpha-6.4.diff - allows dwm to be styled in runtime, works really well with pywal 06-dwm-actualfullscreen-fixed-6.4.diff - keybind to fullscreen windows 07-dwm-autostart-20161205-bb3bd6f.diff - i dont use it, but it runs script at ~/.dwm/autostart.sh at dwm startup 08-dwm-cfacts-vanitygaps-6.4_combo.diff - adds gaps and many cool layouts 09-dwm-current_desktop-5.8.2.diff - in short, makes dwm work with compositor's workspace switch animations 10-dwm-barpadding-20211020-a786211.diff - speaks for itself 11-dwm-hide_vacant_tags-6.4.diff - hides tags from tagbar (bottom right thing) if there is no windows on them 12-dwm-cyclelayouts-20180524-6.2.diff - keybind to cycle through all available layouts 13-dwm-restoreafterrestart-20220709-d3f93c7.diff - places windows at the tags they belonged to after restart 14-dwm-status2d-barpadding-20241018-44e9799.diff - status 2d allows for drawing in dwm's status text. Thats how i made that cute battery icon and cpu load. 15-dwm-status2d-xrdb-6.2.diff - theoretically allows to get (and draw with) xrdb colors, but i dont use it 16-dwm-appicons-6.5.diff - adds application icons to tag bar. > I'm new to dwm and have no idea what i'm doing If youre not fancy about actually writing C use dwm flexipatch. Or, if you are, dwm-commented is very nice to wrap your head around suckless's code.

i hate gnome opensuse is meh

>>88194 Wallpaper, please? Until death, all defeat is psychological.

>>88769 it was somewhere on 4chan's /wg/ i'll try to find it

>>88769 >>88774 damnnn i must be premature the way that was quicker than expected anyways here ya go

I use FVWM because I can make my desktop look and feel how I want it to. I mainly use this laptop for web browsing when I'm not using my desktop.

>88760 i also used to use konsole with gnome and it triggered my friends

>>88818 >>88307 This is a really dope wallpaper. Where can i find theses?

>>88823 https://github.com/tile-anon/tiles/blob/main/tarot_fran%C3%A7ais_tile.png

void is a pain in the butt but i love it xfce because no bloat and cute mouse logo i just do normal person things like reading and music

I tried making taskbar autohide (shows when mouse is near the border of the screen), turned off window titlebars, also made everything with few exceptions open in fullscreen by default. And I don't think I'm going back. Sadly, it means there's almost nothing to be shown in the thread like this other than probably background picture.

>>88965 enjoy your screen tearing

>>88970 I feel ya. Stopped using a taskbar altogether and run everything in fullscreen. I guess you could show a launcher/menu and a desktop notification if you use em to add a bit of interest? But these threads are also often kind of crypto wallpaper threads so... Here's a simple wallpaper base that I like to use, just slap any old logo in the middle of it. The light green is comfy but sometimes I get bored so I use a script to randomize the hue on the fly. >>88098 >why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, It's light, simple to use, rewarding to learn more about, and it fits my use case like a glove. This applies to both os (freebsd) and wm (openbox). >what you use your device for :D Writing, recreational man page reading, brewing soykaf and casual gaming/modding every now and then.

>>88971 is that a xfce thing? ironically the only time i've experienced tearing was in kde plasma

>>88760 hated gnome and opensuse so I switched to Artix

>>88974 I always have screen tearing on xfce with nvidia gpu if used with noveau instead of proprietary drivers

>Artix I've been using it for some years now, it's basically Arch without systemd, works pretty good. Everything feels simpler and straightforward compared to other distributions, and contrary to popular belief it doesn't break. >dwm I'm currently using dwm, automatic tiling is better than manual. I don't like fancy things like blur, animations, transparency, etc. however it feels pretty boring, which I guess for some it's a good thing. I experimented with MATE before and I love how comfy it feels, but after using a twm I just can't go back to floating windows, so I feel somewhat conflicted about it.

How do you people use tiling? Do you have multiple windows open at the same screen and tiled together for prolonged amount of time? I'm not sure what it's good for because I'm mostly using a single fullscreen window at a time for every single app: be it browser, terminal, code editor, file manager, etc.

>>89046 I don't have a strict way to use tiling, I just do what feels natural. That aside, I always keep my browser(s) on the first workspace at max size and I only open up multiple windows if I'm copying text from something (stackoverflow, math problems etc.) the 2nd and 3rd workspaces are usually for coding and note taking, the 4th and 5th are mostly just terminals and the rest is miscellaneous, I'm sometimes trying out a new program, I sometimes watch a video and so on. I'm sure that there are some autists who make full use of all of the workspaces and maximize the benefits that tiling wms have to offer but I don't do too much on my computer other than computer science and math stuff.

>>89045 Any chance you can link the first one's rice? It looks so good!

>>89046 I'm currently using XFCE, but I used dwm for a while. I almost never use windows maximised, because 16:9 is too wide. For example, I would have my browser take 3/5 of the width, the remaining space would have my password manager and one or two terminals for misc stuff. When editing documents, I would have my text editor take one half vertically, and the document viewer and a terminal for compilation on the other half. It doesn't work very well with applications that open multiple windows though. Ghidra was basically unusable for example.

>>89045 What's the bottom image DE? I'm considering going from i3 to DWM , is it any better? I'm the Artix post just above yours with the i3 wm. New to Artix and i3

>>88267 OP from >>88262 It comes by default with commonalitygris its CachyOS KDE Plasma by default with that theme.

> why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM tabbed windows

Ah this thread really puts the desktop thread on /g/ to shame. Everything is looking beautiful anons. Especially the dwm setups.

>>89226 Even the bottom 10% of lainchan puts the top 10% of 4chan to shame, and lainchan has gone to utter soykaf.

>>89226 Nice rainbow shell The shadows look really good too. What's the compositor / compositor settings?

>>89228 Thank you. It's picom with: shadow-radius 10, shadow-offset-x -7, shadow-offset-y -7. And that's pretty much it.

>>88481 linux in nutshell. I've learned that it's not bad, and can be particularly useful.. I just currently cannot be bothered.

>>89236 /sys/class/backlight can be managed using a shell script and a single doas configuration line, actually. you don't even need to install any fancy applications

>>89045 Can you link the theme on the Mate desktop? Very nice setups. dwm and mate are my favorites.

>>89045 >MATE screenshot How did you get so good looking pixel fonts? Most fonts look awful without antialiasing. What fonts did you use?

This is my Ubuntu for study and work. I only use it when i'm at the college, nothing fancy.

>why OS After using Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, and Void I settled on Debian once I got a job and stopped caring so much. After a few years I decided to switch to Devuan, purely for the vibe. >why DE I've used tiling before when I used Arch/Gentoo/Void and just don't get on with it anymore. It's only really useful for terminal windows, anything else like a browser or Emacs would end up on its own workspace or tabbed together. After realising that I used Window Maker for years until last week when I switched to Plasma. Why Plasma? I think it's the most advanced DE available. I really like the concept of Activities and the task focus that having only the apps you use for a thing around. I used it as my main interface for work, and still have it on my music and gaming PCs. I made the switch after playing around with labwc and deciding that I just don't have the time for minimal ricing wms anymore. Before going back to Plasma I did check out Gnome having never actually used it. I liked the clean interface, but gdm3 crashed every time on Devuan and I wanted a bit more customisation (I want to swap ctrl and caps lock damn it). So I just took what I liked and chucked it onto Plasma (Overview on super is cool). >what use Browsing, email, chat, D&D notes, config management of my home network, and learning Croatian. Thanks for reading my blog post.

>>89321 We had the exact same distro-hopping past, I also recently switched to Devuan after getting pissed off by systemd. For the DE, I really tried to enjoy fully polished DEs but floating windows just piss me off nowadays, it feels like a burden to move them. I'm currently using EXWM which is great but as you mentioned, a burden to rice. I like how I can open tiled windows and then tab them while keeping the other windows intact, it's functionality that I haven't found in other WMs, and if there is, then I'll still probably stick with EXWM. Not posting my rice since it's mostly usability oriented but here's the fastfetch

>>89322 (checked) I don't open enough windows that moving them is a chore to be honest. I hold super, click to drag so that they overlap in a way that makes sense, and use focus follows mouse and raise on focus to select stuff. Often I'll slap Librewolf or Emacs into fullscreen. Terminals are disposable in most cases. I don't listen to music on my laptop so there's not really anything I need to be long-lived; pop open a new one with S-Ret, do what I need, close it and move on. I tried out sway a little just to double check I still felt that way about tiling and still do prefer this way. Maybe I'm just retarded though. Why do you need to move so many out of interest?

>>89323 >Why do you need to move so many out of interest? I like to compartmentalize my browsing history (not anything to do with security, I just don't like it when for example I'm searching up an error and the first pop-up links are invidious and everything that has nothing to do with it), I got profiles for: math, comp"sci", trash, trash math, desmos, and imageboards which I like to keep private hence I use the Tor Browser for this time wasting soykaf (not all of them turned at the same time obviously but it's 3 on average, those being the ones for imageboards, math and comp"sci"). I keep ncmpcpp open for most of the time, Ghidra is a pain in the ass to resume so I tend to keep it open too, I can't think of the last time I used Gnuplot for serious /biz/ but I tend to use that too, I compulsively check out my TODO and schedule .org files, emacs-pdf-tools for reading various crap, vterm mostly for file management since I still haven't got to learning Dired and I think that's about it. I could technically minimize most of this stuff but I'm too comfortable with my work environment to make a change and Ghidra is the only process who can push my specs over the top. It's very messy, I know, but emacs tabbing makes it look really clean.

Who needs a WM anyways? body too short, LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL LALL

>>88257 Nice desktop. Also, is that doom's bsp engine you're writing? If it is, then do you have a git repo for it?

i happened to have found this thread while on my laptop. here's my epic void+dwm rice!! by the way, kind of a new user here, i noticed a lot of people have a name, so is that like a normal thing here? trying to get away from fat loser 4chan :(

same user as above. sorry for double posting. but wow i feel stupid. disregard second line

>>89045 I'm really fond of the look your MATE desktop has, any chance for a run down of it please ?

>>89399 how do you get such low ram usage? also, nice display res, on an x200 too?

>>89405 >how do you get such low ram usage? That's just Hyperbola out of the box, iirc. Wasn't particularly golfing for low RAM usage. Probably because the distro doesn't support many packages that suck and uses alternatives from OpenBSD like xenocara https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages >also, nice display res, on an x200 too? It's a very old MacBook, model is on the pfetch.

friend asked me out to post here so i did > why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM debian mint is comfy >>89045 >>88818 Beautiful things >>89189 i've seen you before, youre cool

>>89399 Hyperbola seems like an amazing distribution but I'm kinda bummed that they don't have emacs in their repositories, how's it treating you? >>89440 Is that Xfwm bar reminiscent of the BeOS one? I thought your icons were also BeOS themed until I saw Haiku in the fetch though so I might be off on this one too.

>>89441 my xfce its haiku themed but i didnt count that it could be look like BeOS, so yeah maybe you right

>>89045 >>89189 Impressive, very nice.

>>89406 you know what, I think htop is just bloated

Mental stimulation? I hardly know her!

>>89446 Please share your wallpaper.

Proposing a new rule going forward: Like OP, everyone posts their desktop and the wallpaper together. There's three file slots, people!

I spent way too much time making a custom fvwmrc to mimick SGI IRIX, even making the icons myself with ImageMagick, but i mostly use cwm now. both from openbsd base

>>89456 Very cool. I made a more pixel-perfect recreation of the scatter background from IRIX.

>>89464 Man, those isometric icons! I think i have a massive tile collection and i just found the scatter tile from there. I have plenty more though. Is that irix necroware that you self compiled or are you using something like NsCDE?

>>89467 care to share that tiles collection? :o

>>89472 https://files.catbox.moe/xdi8tc.tgz (tar -xzf to extract) It's about 60MB uncompressed, sorry if almost nothing has significant names but i never got around naming them. Format is xpm, if you use more modern window managers something like convert from ImageMagick can easily convert to png. Enjoy

>>89464 Dang could you share the icons? They look really nice

>>89467 >Is that irix necroware that you self compiled or are you using something like NsCDE? EMWM with custom Motif apps on Linux. >>89475 gitlab.com/dvtools-public/IconImages

>>89441 >how's it treating you? It's certainly an interesting distribution. In a way, it's the "purest" linux distro out there in terms of FOSS philosophy, which is nice to have, but not practical in real life with real people, unfortunately. So definitely dual boot it or have two computers. I'm not currently using it as the computer went kaputt, and Hyperbola is pretty anal about what hardware it can be installed on. Once I find a nice looking X200/MB2,1/Latitude E6400, I'm getting back to it, however.

>why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/W Windows, because I didn't really get much of a choice, but might switch to Linux in the future as I used to have a Raspberry Pi running Linux, and I still regard it as my favourite system. >what you use your device for Programming, work, not too CPU or RAM intensive games, browsing webrings, &c. Desktop meant to be useful, as it just lists Windows shortcuts, but I don't usually visit the desktop as I've gotten into the habit of using the command line

Anyone else try out XLibre yet? Seems like a meme but I love those. >>89226 total dwm supremacy >>89497 kek'd

>>89479 I've read about it shortly after leaving my post and I've noticed that they don't even allow packages with SHA256 sums because SHA512 is more secure, but IMO that's stupid and it filters out at least 90% of the non-AUR packages that arch offers. It's also stupid because, to get the same SHA256 sum you'd need to "earn" a computational complexity of 68^36 which is already an absurd amount of computations considering that breaking common encryption takes less than that when excluding side-channel attacks (AES is a good example(2^127 (?)) since it's been commonly deemed as the best by professionals, not the LARPERS on /g/ who think that bigger number after the acronym=better) . It's a really nice distribution in terms of ideas and philosophy but they've went far too overboard with soykaf that I don't feel like they truly understand (from what I remember the guy handling security doesn't even have a main interest in it) and to get what they're trying to achieve at a functional level you'd need a budget far bigger than whatever they have now. >In a way, it's the "purest" linux distro out there in terms of FOSS philosophy I'd say that it's more philosophies mixed at once rather than the free software philosophy, Trisquel, Guix, Parabola and PureOS all follow the autistic standards that GNU has made (literally nothing proprietary, not even fonts or tech support for proprietary software) the init freedom and minimalism goes into other philosophies rather than the one that GNU has made

>>89499 >didn't get much of a choice Is Microsoft holding a gun to your head or is this a job thing

>tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM I picked Debian because it's easy to use and intelligently handles errors when downloading packages, I used to be a hardcore Gentoo user but as my Linux enthusiasm slightly went away I decided to settle to something that's elegant and simple to use. dwm also comes from my Linux enthusiasm that went away with time, I got comfortable with the keybindings and couldn't bother to switch to another tiling window manager that I'd have to relearn (I'm not touching floating window managers ever again) >what you use your device for I use my device to read philosophy, math, gothic literature, rarely physics and sometimes computer science books. I tried to read a bit of chemistry but my brain isn't wired to understand it.. I also use it for light programming, a few minor contributions to projects and more often than not, graphing math soykaf and emulation.

I will post it again because it is still relebant

> why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM I like the minimalism of void and that it doesn't break on me after every update unlike arch. Awesomewm is highly and easily customizable, plus it has a built in statusbar and notifications. I use it in floating mode only btw. I'm thinking about switching to niri because it looks cool and I want to try wayland anyway. > and what you use your device for programming, interwebz, some games

im using a surface pro 4 w/ surface-kernel & xfce4 the xfwm4 theme is x-Aero, im using compiz to get transparency effects xfce4 has easy touch support!

Just installed Arch with hyprland today. It was kinda hard since i had to configure all my DNS and gateway from my network.

So this is my worklaptop. since I'm trying to convince my coworkers that floss is better than winblows and macos I've opted for debian with flatpak and gnome. you can bake an egg on this thing when it struggles with streaming a 720p yt video but that all goes unnnoticed by my coworkers, they just care about bling

>>89758 >debian with flatpak and gnome Same here. >you can bake an egg on this thing when it struggles with streaming a 720p yt video The Youtube web player is bloated as fuarrrk. Try downloading the vids with "Video Downloader" instead, the orange one from flatpak. LibRedirect also has some lighter frontends for it.

>>89758 >>89762 There's yt-dlp (download videos), ytfzf, the yewtube pip3 python package (my favourite, but it keeps breaking), youtube-tui ( written in rust) and yewtube (the youtube frontend)

>>89768 Those are also good options, but I'm suggesting Video Downloader because it always worked during the worst of Youtube's last anti-adblock campaign, whereas yt-dlp often broke for me. Never tried any of the other ones though

>>89758 Try using LXQT and ikatube as a youtube client (you will need to configure it to load 720p by default though).

> tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM, and what you use your device for :D I use Void because and I don't see the reason to change, the same goes for xfce, but I will probably change to Berry wm in some time.

>>88098 > tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM I use Ratpoison on Arch but I might switch to Gentoo (maybe?). I'm normally using Bash but I'm testing tcsh because it has autocorrect that tells you what it's going to do and it asks you for confirmation. Here a quote from the man-page: When spelling correction is invoked in any of these ways and the shell thinks that any part of the command line is misspelled, it prompts with the corrected line: > set correct = cmd > lz /usr/bin CORRECT>ls /usr/bin (y|n|e|a)? One can answer ‘y’ or space to execute the corrected line, ‘e’ to leave the uncorrected command in the input buffer, ‘a’ to abort the command as if ^C had been hit, and anything else to execute the original line unchanged. Ratpoison is basically like Tmux but for managing GUI windows. It's manually tiling WM. I normally use all my programs in full screen mode and I use a keybinding to switch windows (C-t 0...9 , or Alt+Tab). And before you ask, I could use StumpWM but I don't need the extra features (like better sloppy focus). The problem with Cagebreak is that it doesn't let me easily print the output of a command in a message box (I use it to display battery info), and it's also missing some features, like the window menu and the feature that lets me to select a window by typing aka C-t ' . I don't need Wayland but I have tested Wayback and it seems to support Ratpoison pretty well. I'm wating for Mahogany to become usable before I switch to Wayland. >https://github.com/stumpwm/mahogany Here is cleaned-up version of my .ratpoisonrc: set winname class # Workspaces / window tags. # You want to probably use rpws instead! gnewbg werk # keybindings bind c exec xterm bind e exec pcmanfm-qt # Open built-in Run Dialog. # You could also use dmenu or something else. bind r exec # Show battery info. # `acpi --battery` gets executed by Bash and the output gets fed to Ratpoison's echo cmd. bind b exec ratpoison -d :0.0 -c "echo `acpi --battery`" # Keybindings without prefix definekey top XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pamixer --decrease 5 definekey top XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pamixer --increase 5 definekey top XF86AudioMuteVolume exec pamixer --toggle-mute definekey top M-Tab next # start some nice programs... exec /usr/share/ratpoison/sloppy exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr exec feh --bg-fill .bg.jpg exec emacs P.S. I don't know who the animu girl in the wallpaper is. I just found the wallpaper. I don't use CloverOS either.

>>89809 Oh yeah, why. NixOs is the only one with a sustainable approach to package management, without relying on containers. It also has the largest repository of any distro, and doesn't have the pain points and security risk of the AUR. KDE is just comfortable and easy to use.

>>89800 It's from Girls Und Pantzu https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3607468 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/62003033

>>88269 >>88257 >>88281 >>89045 Best ITT, good job anons

>>88112 I'm still on Android, OneUI 6.1 on my Galaxy Tab A8... and it's still pretty good as a main computer for my simple use case.

OS: linux mint DE: MATE WM: metacity

>>89897 How do you handle typing? I'm considering switching to an android tablet for work, as it's 80% over ssh. But I'm picky about typing and dragging a standalone keyboard along seems clunky.

>>89934 I use a cheap Bluetooth keyboard, feels good enough for my usecase, but for higher end tablets Samsung makes keyboard cases that essentially turn the thing into a laptop, there are also cases that replicate Apple's Magic Keyboard and I've heard good things about them too.

>>89934 >>89941 There also are cheap wired keyboards that are low profile. To use wired keyboards you just need a USB hub that can plug in using USBC and there are cheap ones you can get but you need to carefully check if they are for power or data. You can find those cheap too but you have to check reviews well. It gets rid of issue of having to remember to recharge or signal interference and the insecurity of the Bluetooth protocol. My Bluetooth keyboard I use with a tablet it lasts days but gives little warning before it loses power. You also can use a mouse if you like. There is more niche typing device options but those have a learning curve or not as efficient.

>>89943 Using a wired keyboard sounds like a nice idea. Thought I wonder how portable it can be. I don't think I saw any hubs that do not stick out perpendicular to the device. Could you please elaborate on the niche typing devices? I'm good with a steep learning curve if it provides a worthy result in the end.

>>89947 this desktop looks familiar. have you posted it anywhere before? btw, i love devuan.

>>89950 >this desktop looks familiar. have you posted it anywhere before? The desktop threads on /g/ and sometimes on /w/ or /wg/. I've mostly used bspwm on this PC but I decided to go with fvwm after upgrading to Excalibur. >btw, i love devuan Same, Devuan and Slackware are my two favorite distros to use.

>>89941 Not bad for an android setup, but looking at those soykafty drawing pens made as an extension you pay extra for on mobile devices always gave me the shivers. I remember feeling so relived my first time with a real drawing tablet. It felt so nice having a pen that didnt want to sperg out on me whenever I rested my hand on it a bit. Glad it works for you, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>88098 (OP) hai! I've been stalking this thread for a while and though I'd finally chime in with my own :-) I started on this computer using Debian 12, and considering it hasn't broken yet, I see no reason to switch just yet! It was the first and last operating system I even had to install on here, and theres something sweet about that to me. I just use this PC for browsing the web and making music/art mostly ^_^ I cant post my beautiful desktop to the commoners of /g/ because my people have been banished since the barney age, never to return >>89947 >>88257 >>88818 >>89456 >>89443 These are my personal favorites so far (づ๑•ᴗ•๑)づ♡

>>89953 It's not ideal, I'll admit. It's a capacitive stylus since my budget tablet can't even support an active stylus, so it just acts as a finger touch pretty much... well, at least I don't have to charge, and this one I bought is pretty good, I can manage to have some fun drawing with it, got used to not resting my palm on the device, not too bad since it's a smaller tablet, about 11'.

I literally just use completely vanilla KDE.

>>90022 https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuos here's a cheap drawing tablet you could use as an alternative if u want to maybe have a smoother experience. They aren't very pricey, probably about the amount you had to pay extra for the stylus to begin with It should connect just fine with bluetooth. I have mine plugged into the back of my PC with a usb cable (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

>>90034 Thanks for the advice, anon! Oddly enough I already own an Intuos, I just don't use it because I like the screen, makes it feel closer to drawing traditionally, setting up the Intuos on my laptop is more bulky and cumbersome of a setup for me, though of course it felt amazing to actually draw on it, the tablet helps me keep it casual, easier to pick it up, draw and put down.

I use sowm. let me guess you need more and so on.

Since the last thread I've switched to void, been liking it so far, it was surprisingly easy to set up and up to this point installing my soykaf hasn't been that much of a problem, a couple hiccups in and there but it's a really nice distro, boots up really fast too

>>89464 cool wallpaper lain. would you mind sharing it?

>>https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/ Legends

>>89947 Do Window Maker widgets work with any other wm or did you recreate them with Fvwm's panels / buttons?

>>90216 They are indeed Window Maker dockapps, they work with Fvwm. You can make a module with them like in pic related. I've seen them used Openbox too, but I've never tried it myself.

>>89405 What WM is this? ||Body was too short.||

Apparently I posted my desktop in the old thread (>>90377), and can't repost the pictures here, maybe I can do it in a week or two once the old thread gets removed from the catalog. >>9038 I do know that there are alternate file managers for windows but dunno how well they mesh with the system. >linux CAN be better than windows, but its often not thanks to the reality of linux being a hobbyist OS thats made to boot on anything Agreed, the more I use linux the more painfully evident this fact gets. >if your hardware is older than 2012-2015 depending on how unlucky you are With linux and older hardware it used to be better in the past but ever since ~6.0 came out I feel the kernel has become more bloated. Used to have an old netbook in 2018 with 1gb of ram and the distro I was using ran okay (Bodhi linux), but I doubt I could do that now.

>>89945 > Using a wired keyboard sounds like a nice idea. Thought I wonder how portable it can be. I don't think I saw any hubs that do not stick out perpendicular to the device. Getting a bit off topic but most multi port hubs have a USBC cable attached to the main body you just need one with a cable long enough to not be hanging in mid air and can be used with peripherals. >Could you please elaborate on the niche typing devices? I'm good with a steep learning curve if it provides a worthy result in the end. TapXR is one wireless option. No keys just gestures and a wristband. No idea how well it works though.

: ^ ) >Why I hop, and I hop, and I hop. Eventually I found that I had hopped so far that I couldn't even see my desk anymore. I wonder where I'm off to...

>>90498 What is that? Is it Android? Stock or a custom rom? A particular app or the homepage with a bunch of widgets?

I've using this soykafty build of dwm for 2 years > why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM Because Arch is the only soykaf that works and I know how to use in my laptop. And dwm It's too lightweight, so I can do all my stuff without crashes or something. > and what you use your device for hp probook 455g4

>>90503 KLWP on HyperOS. Stock. KLWP has if/else statements and global attributes, so you can make it do a bunch, if you can be bothered.

>Why use this particular OS/DE/WM Gentoo sounded like the best move for my collection of E-waste, and fast it is! I loved the apt repository, but emerge hasn't left me wanting much (besides less pain around qt ports). Icewm on the other hand is still "in testing" for me. Certain things (like changing the fonts system-wide) surprised me with how little my hand was held, while switching and customizing theming without having to reboot is very sexy. I switched all my 'puters to Gentoo as a sort of self-challenge and to put my money where my mouth is and really see if open source software is the way forward. (I'm leaning toward "yes")

Fresh install, I just purchased this rig from a friend so I gifted my wife my old machine. Don't dox me bruh.

Gentoo because i'm a massive control freak and crave minimalism DWM for the same reasons i use Gentoo 822 is too many packages, i'm planning on debloating my setup I'm also planning on switching to DWL (DWM for wayland) Of course i switched out gnu coreutils for uutils and i'm planning on compiling a custom kernel

>>88561 Brilliant. What do you use the server resources for?

>>89226 anon if you see this do you have this pape?

these desktops are killing it, keep it going!

lol, i have complete chaos on my desktop. lately, i created folder DesktopIcons just to make more space on it. (its slowly filling with garbage again). i also have my desktop icons grid unaligned just to make it more spacious. so in some sense it is kind of aesthetic, like those visualisations of compressed gas particles in a sealed container.

>>92520 You can't write that and not post a screencap

>>92626 goated album, goated desktop. definitely mirin'

labwc on nixos currently i am compiling qtwebengine, so i am using lots of ram + cpu > tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM i wanted a minimal desktop on wayland. diy stuff > and what you use your device for :D gaming, web surfing, listening to music

>>92737 I'm also using labwc. It's pretty good and fixes some of the openbox issues, such as scaling the window decorations. Using sfwbar for a bar, what about you?

>>92942 Nice kernel, senior. Was there any extra work to make kernel modules work?

Not sure what's going on with my earlyoom though, why is it displaying time in started status while other services don't.

>>92943 There was no extra work involved. I simply updated it.

>>89954 /) nice setup do you ever have trouble using FL with Linux, what's your setup for that? Haven't used Linux on my desktop in years solely because I need FL.

working on a pretty interesting fork of `ratpoison` and even made a super tiny notification daemon called `windchime` uwu https://codeberg.org/spidervixn/vixen

>>92990 > this counts as an update to ratpoison in small ways that matter over time, lightly augmenting pre-existing stability and performance for the far future of X11. > for the far future of X11. Have you considered XLibre?

How does anyone tolerate twm on large screens? I've been using i3wm on my 13" laptop just fine, but for my 4k screen it is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Either you have to fill your screen with empty padding or you force centering and small window sizes.

Use dwm and mod a layout to work how you want it to.

>>92968 Slowly improving my rice. I even made a cronjob to update panel gradients according to current wallpaper. But it's incomplete and I need to pick better colors everywhere. I discovered that I also kinda like bash, it is like kicking dead whales down the beach it doesn't have built-in floats though.

>>93001 I've been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to just clone plasmoid repo, modify source, then run "bash install.sh && plasmoid --replace &" and immediately see results on my existing panel. Fixed some opacities in kvitals and now fonts and separators look consistent with the rest of my bottom panel.

>>89354 As a kid, I had to use Linux Mint without a WM or DE because the issue LTT had when Steam uninstalled his DE happened to be when I installed DesMuMe. I would go back and forth between doing this and using tmux for everything, which is probably the only reason why I ever learned how to use the terminal.

Ricing adventure goes on. I'm a bit more happy with layouts now, not so much about colors still, those are insanely hard to get right in all the different contexts.

>>93030 Omg, I figured out how to hide titlebar without hiding frame.

Conservative version, which blends well with windows. A bit boring, but not as annoying in terms of "blur custom background" behaving wildly different depending on what is below.

>>93035 Alright, I sorted my soykaf out. I want fancy gradients, but at the same time I dislike inconsistencies they introduce in context of window colors and decorations. I realized though, that this inconsistency is inobservable if I'm using everything in fullscreen anyway and only look at desktop as something in-between applications. So it's mostly a ricing screenshot issue actually, I also used terminal minimized, but I for the longest time wanted to make proper automatically tiled setup anyway and I finally did. Now I don't look at panels and windows at the same time, I either look at fullscreen windows or I look at desktop with panels when I press meta+space. When some window is fullscreen I still can hover edges of screen to bring panel on top of window and that works fine as well.

>>89473 this is fuarrrking awesome! it basically already has all the tiles I collected myself, great work! (not the lain that initially asked)

I'm still using void, so far it has been my favorite distribution, haven't had any trouble with it, I like the package manager and how fast it is, I think it's kinda comfy, from the last time I posted my desktop in this thread I've learned alot of stuff and I think that's cool, also I started using i3 , I enjoy it, it's efficient and easy to configure I guess, truth be told using it has sped up my workflow a bit but I never had trouble with xfce before. >>92732 Also I really like this wallpaper.

Did you know that you can just install CDE on AIX 7.3 today ? This is so much fun. I am thinking about doing a bigger post on AIX, but I am about to start writing kernel extensions for AIX.

>>88098 Manjaro because Arch is too barebones, and Artix is broken by default (gotta do some pacman fuarrrkery to make it work and I'm too lazy for that rn). Use it for vydia mostly, but also a bit of video edit.

>>93135 >CDE Why CDE and not NsCDE instead?

>>92942 >garuda you ought to change that, chico

>>93135 How did you get a copy of AIX? Do you work maintaining ancient production machines running it or something?

>>89226 holy soykaf this is so based. huge black padding from mismatched ration and can't be bothered. and the ethereal ass wallpaper. looks straight from a dream. nice one man

>tell us why you choose to use that particular OS/DE/WM I used Windows 10 LTSC for a long time, used Arch for a few years after that mostly to learn Linux and i enjoyed it. After a while, maybe I'm just getting old, I stopped caring for ricing and rolling release and wanted something similar to what 10 LTSC gave me in the sense of only going through security updates and the occasional major upgrade and Debian Stable fit that bill. Been loving Debian, just werks, infrequent updates save for security ones, and I still have as much granular control over my system as I did with Arch. Took a bit getting used to however as the Arch Wiki really spoils you and Debian's documentation can be a bit obtuse at times but nothing deal breaking, just a different philosophy and workflow. And KDE for the simple reason that it also just werks and I enjoy its breadth of features. Plus its default appearance looks good. >and what you use your device for Work, reading, and retro gaming/emulation hence I don't really mind Debian's slightly older mesa drivers since I have no real need for bleeding edge.

>>93379 Sounds good for your needs then which is all that matters. KDE really does just work now, it might not be as 'cool' as whatever tiling manager and custom panel or w/e people are running, but you don't have to worry about it. Only issue I had with KDE was baloo, not sure if it's still a problem.

>>93380 Haven't noticed any issues with baloo on my end. The only thing of note that's gone wrong with KDE was a hard crash a few months ago when I opened the panel configuration menu for some reason but forcing a log out/log in resolved it without me having to reboot. I think KDE tends to get a bad rep primarily due to vendor specific changes that cause issues that are hard to diagnose. I know KDE on Fedora always tends to have some strange issues with it that are absent on other distros.

>>88307 >>88468 You write really well, I could feel the heart you poured into those words. I hope you're doing good, fellow BR bro.

>>92626 What window manager? >Write a longer post. no >Write a longer post. nein >Write a long- i said no you fuarrrking retarded website i just want to ask a fuarrrking question

>>89201 wooooah pretty. how'd u get the snow effect?

>>93838 xsnow Good old desktop widgets from when computers used to be fun