Desktop/Fetch Thread

Lemme see those desktops fellow lains! Here's my new setup on my desktop

>>2959 heres one showing off the border highlight!

>>2959 this is perfect , teach me how

That's fuarrrking beautiful

I've not done all that much with mine...

>>2964 Thank you! And it takes some work but it's doable. Assuming your already on linux, look into the program pywal. I used it to generate the terminal/vim colorscheme and than used that colorscheme in oomox to make the window decorations/colors. The rest is just tweaking the panel and various config files to your liking >>2966 Thank you :) I am really happy with it >>2967 I love it, looks awesome!! and HAHA we have the same username and host name for our machines :)))))

>>2990 >>2964 https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal/tree/master/pywal https://github.com/themix-project/oomox (links to the two programs I referenced)

I'm a simple folk.

I lost all my icons when I accidentally updated grub ;_;

>>2959 what cursor do u use

>>3019 Adwaita, its the standard one with xfce. I use a program called unclutter that autohides my mouse after half a second of being idle

>>2995 Ah I see a fellow Waterfox connoisseur. Good stuff. I use it because I hate the new NoScript and other reasons.

>>2994 this is wonderful I designed my firefox user CSS with my color scheme so I included that too

Could I have that wallpaper OP Lain?

>>3026 there ya go bud

>>2993 >>3026 Nice This is probably the longest I've had a rice for. I was planning on putting in a lot of effort but I got it looking the way I wanted fairly easily so I'm happy.

>>3032 Is that i3 bar? How did you get those widgets to appear without obnoxious icons? When I add for example the volume widget, it' s appearing with a speaker emoji.

>aarch64 Happy Valentine's Day Lainons

>>3034 It's all in the i3status config, just delete the emoji between the quotes in the volume widget. I just copy pasted all of mine from from the manual and changed the format. volume master { format = "Volume: %volume" device = "default" mixer = "Master" format_muted = "Volume: Muted" mixer_idx = 0 }

>>3030 Thanks lain

Debian Gnome 3 Theme: Noric-standard-buttons Terminal: Terminology And yes, that image is rendered in the terminal. Terminology is the soykaf. You can also set the background for each terminal window, and even set the background to be a video. Check it out at enlightenment.org. Highly recommended.

>>2967 Now with dwm

>>3043 Are you running gnome with 1gb of ram? How does it fare?

>>3082 1gb ram, no swap, 5 tabs, 0 fear

>>3091 the absolute madman

>>3022 this firefox CSS is blessed, keep this up

I like grey and orange.

>>2994 love this one.

It's not much but I made my own variant of Arc GTK theme and bunch of extra folder icons, even got it working with flatpaks. It's your usual Ubuntu with default Gnome session, bunch of extensions and all user software installed from flathub.

>>3368 nice neko

>>2959 How did you manage to get that look?

kinda similar to >>2959 i'm quite proud of it for my first rice although it's pretty cluttered

hm

>>3382 love it! could I get your wallpapers?

>>3425 Of course!

Didn't set as my desktop wallpaper, but this may be the most suitable thread, i made these screenshots in xonotic

>>3434 another one. quake user boomers will apriciate i guess.

>>3435 >>3434 Oooh. I'm still obsessed with Quake, this is cool. Haven't tried xonotic yet. What map is this? Maybe I should check it out. It has the Koth aesthetic that I miss so much.

Here >>3435 >>3434 This is amazing, thank you for sharing lain

>>3436 It's not a stock map, the game downloaded it during multiplayer on a server that throws custom maps in during the game. The title of the map is "13black".

>3436 Oh, and you have to do a little trick to be able to select it for playing without a server. I can show you that, and share the map if you are interested and can't find it.

here

I feel bad because I'm the only guy here who is basic enough to use windows

Here are y'all with your fancy ass systems and here I am with my basic half made potato. But hey it gets the work done (pls ignore the half made bottom bar ;-;)

>>3454 Just use what you feel most comfortable using. That's the most important. And if you start feeling it doesn't fit your needs, start exploring for alternatives. As simple as that. We aren't /g/ and we don't bash you if you use Windows. A Operating System is just another tool to get stuff done with, there are variations but in the end they all serve the same purpose: To give a environment for a user to use their programs on their computer.

>>3456 > has a lightweight window manager > 3GB RAM usage

>>3460 How else are you going to run trello, whatsapp and yt in a browser with 4gb of ram x)

pywal is pretty cool

>>3475 What is this amazing shell prompt theme ?

KDE + i3 is a really good combination.

>>3359 Cute <3

>>3719 nice! also, discord :^\

awesomewm forever firefox is just stock firefox with the "tree style tabs" addon and the dark theme enabled

>>3815 >awesomewm forever Looks cool. I would like to try it, but I don't know if I want to learn lua - is it difficult? Is it going to have a port to wayland?

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>>3816 You can have a great level of customization with a very basic (to none) understanding of lua. A great library to help you achieve more in the customization department is: https://github.com/lcpz/lain but have a look around awesome's website for tutorials and suggestions. Learning lua (which is not difficult at all if you have some basic understanding of programming) would allow you to do very custom and personalized things, but it is not needed to use awesome. I believe that following the tutorials and using the currently available libraries will get you a pretty satisfying result. You may even get one of the many configuration files that exist out there and just use that (here is one collection of existing configuration files and themes: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats), although I would suggest that you use them as a reference point for making you own config. As for wayland support, there is some discussion on github and reddit. There is also this project https://github.com/Way-Cooler/way-cooler. I believe that we may see a port of awesome on wayland, but only time will tell.

>>3822 >Learning lua (which is not difficult at all if you have some basic understanding of programming) would allow you to do very custom and personalized things, but it is not needed to use awesome. Seems okay then. I just would like to avoid learning another memelang, because I already know Guile Scheme, my perfect WM would be extended using it, but there aren't any (just some experimental, X-only thing). But if the WM is awesome (pun intended), then I can try it. Is it good for any screen size? I've noticed that tiling WMs (tried only i3) are inconvenient on small screens, like on my old 14 inch thinkpad. Anyway, thanks for the info.

>>3819 You can play all of those on gnu+linux just saying

Am I the only one that thinks shortcuts on your homescreen are disgusting?

>>3909 The purpose of a UI is getting soykaf done faster

>>3819 you sick man

lesbians and neon lights

>>3475 Post bash.rc plz

>>4723 This is beautiful. Teach me how to achieve this, Lain.

/comfy/

>>4733 not him 1. install a window manager that allows hiding the title bars of windows, or maybe you can just set zero height in the theme without it being a pain in the neck to drag windows around? 2. change theme to huge pink border 3. uh.... done?

This is mine now, I am still changing things every now and then. Thinking of changing to bspwm but I am not sure if I want to reconfigure everything again.

First time using I3 here. You can tell it's mostly a customization of the default Manjaro settings, but I love it so much it's almost stupid. Having the system use less than 1 GB while browsing the web is comfy as all fuarrrk.

>>4777 that one looks awesome! Would you mind sharing your Wallpaper with us? Nice theme

>>4780 Thanks. Here is the wallpaper I found it a couple of days ago in https://wallhaven.cc/

>>4783 Original artwork

>>4775 what that menu? is it part of the DE/WM?

>>4802 It's Openbox. Comes with its BunsenLabs install (https://www.bunsenlabs.org).

>>4733 I use dwm, st, and surf, and mksh mpv for video player in the original I think I was using ncmpcpp, in which you can enable a visualizer AND add web radio channels, all from st. pretty cool. For the weather I had to make another prin function in neofetch which just required me to copy the already-existing prin function, call it prin2, and change the part that got rid of spaces so it didn't get rid of them. Then in the neofetch config I just downloaded wttr.in/LOCATION to a file and read the lines of the ascii art out one by one. to be honest just read. Also don't be afraid to look at source code if it's there, just know the risks and how to evade them (I don't do that because I'm a reckless idiot lmao)

>>4900 Pretty cool stuff. I fell in love with the dark theme and an eye burning color like a pink accent. Thank you

meh... Mint Cinnamon is too basic. And I like it.

Bright wallpapers hurt my damn eyes. Here's my minimal arch/openbox setup.

>>4920 what's in the lainchan file?

>>4920 Mint Cinnamon is objectively comfy. It was one of the first distros I used and so I'm very nostalgic for it. Cinnamon on other distros meanwhile (especially Arch) is soykaf.

Sadly don't have much time to rice and switching to a tiling WM would mess up my workflow. Any suggestions for this, lainons?

>>5486 well, there are a lot of floating window managers. and there are also the dynamic ones which could maybe help you gradually switch to tiling but first, why do you want to drop xfce?

Almost stock i3, no point of ricing when you are just using a web browser all the time.

>>5487 i don't

>>3043 >>3082 forget about GNOME, how the fuarrrk does he run docker with those kinds of specs

>>3908 probably, but why would i do it when windows offers a native experience?

>>5488 Yeah same, except I use my machine for programming as well.

>>4920 Tried Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce. I love my soykafs simple and functional so I hanged to Xfce.

>>5508 Nice desktop and choice of music.

>>5509 Thanks.

>>3475 Paper?

>>5508 Added some transparency and reduced the size of the panel. + neofecth tweaks

>>5532 Slowly but surely looking good.

>>5508 >>5532 Sauce on wallpaper? It looks very pleasant.

>>5611 https://fauux.neocities.org/downloads.html The background is not part of the image.

>>5505 >why would i do it Because you are sacrificing your privacy.

>>5676 Thanks lainon. Here's something I edited, although it might be visually jarring in comparison.

>>5761 You're right, it looks hideous.

>>5761 I absolutely LOVE this

>i'm going to be ruthless >>4779 tight >>4777 tryhard >>4775 what r u doing?! >>4723 sweet >>3819 fuuuuuuuaaaaarrrrrrk off >>3456 lethal >>3452 comfy >>3437 tryhard >>3359 tight >>3081 you should be proud of yourself >>3051 hot

>>3819 something cool about that dark xp background I don't program (well, I've started web dev, but it's not really like programing imo) so I don't see any reason to waste my time and learn to use linux, I tried to in the past and got tired of doing -pacman for every thing. I might do so in the future as a fun project, but for now it's useless. I hope most of you in these threads have an actual reason to use linux

>>5965 fr, what's with this site and bad taste

It's me >>3415 This is kind of a downgrade when I think about it. Not that the previous one was very good.

>>4900 Could you upload that wallpaper?

>>5968 In these days of graphical package managers and Windows-like desktops, Linux is more user-friendly than ever, which makes it easier for newbies to get into. You don't need any programming experience, nor has it been that way in a long time. If my non-tech savvy dad can manage it, I'm pretty sure most can. As for a reason to use Linux, it's a nobrainer. Apart from software ethics, Windows is generally just an awful system. It's bloated and barely fuctional. I could go on, but thats a whooole nother paragraph for you, so let's not get side tracked. Also, software which lets Windows programs run in a Linux environment has come a long way. Look up Wine and DXVK if you're interested.

My old laptop died and got a new one after some months. I've been playing a lot with config files, I also moved to zsh. I downloaded my wallpaper from konachan, but tweaked it a little bit in Gimp, mostly because pywal was generating a color scheme I didn't liked :P I'm including the wallpaper alone in case you want it.

>>5993 >It's bloated and barely fuctional. I wouldn't say "barely" but it is bloated, and that doesn't interfere with any work/study/gaming I do. I am aware of Wine and had a working linux (manjaro meme). There's still no reason for me, apart from the cool factor. Basically I can't be assed to -pacman a bunch of things to download (I'm sure you need to do similar stuff on non manjaro/arch ones)where everything works perfectly well on windows.

first rice in a while, anyone have any better color suggestions?

>>5995 >I'm sure you need to do similar stuff on non manjaro/arch ones Not really. I guess your problem lies in the fact that Arch based distros are rolling-release, which is a special breed of Linux in a way. You said you don't like to do pacman for everything, which is understandable. That's why AUR helpers exist. Ubuntu would seem to be more your thing though. It has great hardware support ootb. And it has become more like Windows over the years. (For better or worse) It's the one distro I would recommend to anyone not familiar with Linux. If you come across a problem or there's something you don't understand, just Google it. I have yet to see a distro with better community support. If going for normal usage, the only commands you'll ever need is apt update, upgrade, search, install or use the gui and you prob won't need any. If you can't leave your Windows behind, dual booting is always an option. But you knew that. Also I'll leave these here. https://appimage.org https://www.flatpak.org https://www.protondb.com

>>5994 Thank you. That's a very nice image.

How many programmers are here! byuser

>>6021 >Running Ubuntu >Kali linux background image ?

>>6032 It's common knowledge that if you modify Ubuntu, you're legally considered an hacker. Kali background? News for an imminent hacker uprising.

My first rice, don't even know if it was worth the effort

>>6050 Forgot image

>>5964 Hey, that's my pic! Glad you like it lain.

I think I should get a wallpaper with colors that match the status bar

I am into mentally programming negative behaviors out of myself the random lines are things i want to remind myself of

Hello! How is it going?

>>6051 poast .Xresources pls

>>6075 Are those lines just on your wallpaper or is there some kind of program that can throw text on screen like that? Looks neat.

I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro only about a week ago, and I ended up encountering a lot of problems in the course of getting this modest setup working... so I'm happy to finally have everything the way I want it. I plan on doing more customization later on using Radical. I'd like to get my laptop looking like as much of a Navi as possible.

>>6077 Hello, I'm good, how are you? is that macOS there? I've heard resizing Tor browser can make you more identifiable

>>6086 thanks, no just the former. when i think of something new to add i just edit the wallpaper in gimp

>>6075 Am... Am I doin it rite?

The idea was to create a professional looking desktop, as if everything is stock from the manufacturer. GNOME seems best suited for this. And this original Apple wallpaper suits the distro logo so well. Also Devuan testing with OpenRC is very comfy. >>6221 nothing is something too :)

>>2960 that's a cute desktop Lain, how stable is Debian testing? I'm currently using stable and it's pretty comfy and extremely reliable but I would like newer packages.

>>4723 now this is based

>>2967 >nsfw desktop i take it you either live alone or never leave your bedroom? >Linux-libre based Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is switching to BSD because they think the Linux-libre project is unsustainable, what do you think?

>>6249 >Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is switching to BSD because they think the Linux-libre project is unsustainable, what do you think? Not the lainon, but Linux-libre is pretty sustainable. Like one guy is responsible for all the deblobing? People in Guix also do some deblobbing by themselves. If anything, GNU/Linux ecosystem generally goes in wrong direction - systemd, etc. As long as Torvalds is alive, nothing extremely stupid and anti-user is going to happen to Linux. I think Hyperbola's switch to BSD is some kind of marketing. We can discuss this further in the BSD thread if you want >>>/Ω/28052

>>6235 How do you get your pale moon to look like that?

>>6253 It's a theme for lainchan. Look picrel.

>>6268 Forget, not >6235

>>6268 Damn, that's a shame. I wanted my whole PC to have a fauux skin.

>>6293 that would be nuts

>>6293 It's aesthetically pleasant bud bad for my eyes.

>>6294 I mean, I got kind of close by using a custom color theme and night mode, then messing with border thickness. I'm on 7, so it's a bit hard to customize the actual UI.

>>6293 It would be possible with deep customization of themes... depend of the system/OS you use. I think I3 and diggin in .cfg could do it.

might move to artix or parabola

how it's going lainons

Android

I installed Mint recently.

>>6350 Can I get a link to that mobile pape?

>>6351 Straight from Windows?

>>6405 I have moved on from Windows, yes. One of the better decisions I made with the exception of having to make my games compatible with Linux.

>>6351 How's Mint 20?

>>6407 Pretty good. Easy to use. I like the built in dark mode that I don't need to pay a license to use.

>>6407 How do you get your distro to have that old look? I'm new to ricing linux

>>6424 Looks like some CDE theme, you'd have to look around the web for some of those.

>>6407 it's fine. I updated in a couple hours, only had to fix a couple minor things.

>>6407 >>6426 Not the lain you were talking to tho

>>6425 I got the Cinnamon desktop right from the Mint website.

Linux newbie here, how do you get those crisp-looking bitmap fonts to work? I'm using Mint 20, and as far as I understand, the font renderer, pango, is complete trash and cannot display anything other than hinted vector fonts past 1.44 Is there some sort of workaround out there, or do I simply have to downgrade to an older mint version if I want usable fonts on my system?

my shared theme between my workstation and laptop, although i'm planning on switching to dwm for my laptop soon, after i upgrade it to debian bullseye as well.

Turns out, Debian Buster is pretty much linux perfection. Perfectly serviceable in all aspects, while still supporting bitmap fonts- literally all I could care for. I'm using XFCE with a lightly modified raileigh-compact-reloaded theme, and Chicago95 for icons, this is basically peak usability, the crisp yet neutral interface falls right in the sweet-spot for maintaining an alert state of mind, while not causing fatigue and eyestrain during longer sessions. The background ascii art was made with jp2a and rendered in GIMP. I also made an alternate one, which I would use, were it not for Lain's soul-piercing gaze making me feel self-conscious about using a modern web browser for j*vascript-heavy pages.

>>6682 Holy fuarrrk that is hard to read. This would be hell when trying to use in the dark.

>>3051 lain can I get that wallpaper?

>>6792 ¿Eres el mismo g0d que el de libertor?

>>3022 fuarrrk i love this, what's the font lainon? I really need to start ricing Arch, looks so empty and ugly rn...

>>3022 Needs a fix: >https everywhere This is not actually fail-safe after add-on crash or in-browser problems, there's still port 80 leaks in logs and sometimes it glitched into letting me browse http:// addresses. Maybe block port 80 traffic in router/hub firmware? This is as bad as using a vpn add-on that crashes and just spill the soykaf or using software vpn that might crash too. >pbadger I guess the intention was good but poorly executed, sometimes it doesn't make sense and instead gives weird display fingerprint values, and it also had issues whitelisting google cookies on my icecat during early versions for some unknown reason but then it was patched at some point, and I never used it again. I don't know the other addons but I hope you're not using ghostery and some "privacy hype" post snowman leaks. >font hinting Could do a better job. Set a local.font, and rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter.. if you're not gonna use sub-pixel rendering.

>>6057 Nice pic you got there Nguyen

>>4775 fuarrrk, I love this. Is there a program to place a floating image like that without any hassle? I use imagick and then hide the minimap and menu with i3

>>6904 feh

>>6905 >feh fuarrrk yeah, thanks

>>6682 >>6652 >>6407 >>6351 >>6345 wrong kernel >>6224 nice

>>6792 >>6795 Nice to see we are not alone ;)

>>7420 Who's the girl in the pic also why is there a nude man?

>>7423 my egf and jesus said love yourself first

>>6074 got it

>>7420 would you kindly sauce me that rabbit waifu? Feels like an artist I might like.

>>7425 Props for the wallpaper bro, solid choice

>>3026 What program do you have running in your terminal?

I can't into ricing but I tried. Open to recommendations. >>2960 Nice lainon, I really like the consistent pallet. >>3051 Very cool, love the wallpaper and shell. >>3475 Neat shell. >>4723 Eye cancer, but in an aesthetic kinda way. Also >lesbians >>5994 Favorite itt, love the consistent use of bitmap fonts. Whenever I try to go all in with those I always mess something up.

gave up on fvwm so here I am on xfce, made it nice and touch friendly arranged windows like this to look fun

>>7420 ryoji ikeda, nice

>>5994 this is fuarrking beautiful , you mind posting your neofetch conf? been having a hear time trying to replace the ascii art , no decent tutorial anywhere

>>6092 Looks like linux with a MacOS theme. The entire don't be "full screen" is because there's a few ways for an attacker to get your screen size in a full screen browser without JS enabled, I'm pretty sure it's patched now but something that is easy to avoid irregardless.

>>3030 thanks for the wallpaper

I guess I like this theme so much because it reminds me of the first computer I owned, I'm not trying to endorse Apple in any way, though that's Mars in the background btw

Trans Rights are Human Rights!!! I believe that all Trans People should be given the right to Live as for we Trans People have been Oppressed by the People that hate us for no reason other than to ""be cool.""

Everyone has cool desktops meanwhile I'm the only one still using Windows because I'm not ready to change yet (and I don't find my USB key) but I plan to move to Mint, I'm stupid so I'm a little bit scared

>>7768 Change is always scary, take it as a challenge that will extend your comfort zone, and there is no shame in using a tool you feel comfy with. I still love my macos.

>>7505 just a quick update, not much has changed

>>7849 is that from the Peshay video? based junglist

I don't know where else posting this would be appropriate. I apologize if it's out of place. My biggest problem with modern UI's is that they seem to assume users will be using high resolution displays. And so the big icons (which are far too big even at their smallest available size) which take up limited vertical space, and input fields with arbitrary top and bottom margins with no way for the user to change them; end up cluttering the screen. This is bad for production, because you're left with less space to display all the information you would like at one time and you have more distractions. I dread that Microsoft and Apple's hostility towards UI configuration is bleeding into gtk and qt.

linux noob here, you all have such pretty rices.

Humble LXLE setup. I know LXDE is abandonware but it's so much fun.

>>8016 I made that background. Glad you like it.

man my desktop's always bland and default as soykaf i never know where to look for the good stuff so i never change anything

>>7867 Do you still use a 768?

My main monitor's background

>>6346 NICE WALLPAPER! can i have it

>>8020 i do use a 768 too

>>2959 I think hiding information, adding gaps and transparency to things is dumb in general, so I haven't really done much ricing since my early days on GNU Linux. However, I found some wallpapers that I like (rare for me), so I did it anyways. I think it turned out well. I still think gaps and transparency are annoying, especially with Emacs's poor support for transparency (text goes transparent as well), but for my laptop, it's fine.

>>8017 I love that wallpaper, Lain. Thanks.

>>3382 How did you put that image on the terminal?

>>8172 how does it glow like that?

>>2995 Very Based kot.

>>2959 Decided to center my new colorscheme around a screenshot i took in a game. i3status still doesn't appear quite right, so i'll probably just make it white and call it a day. Got picom putting my GPU to good use to provide some nice blur to inactive windows using its rewritten glx backend. Still needs a bit of work, namely for graphical programs, but I like it so far!

>>8358 is that a female or male midriff? if female then sauce

>>8359 gf >>8359 gf >>8359 gf >>8359 gf

Its voidlinux with self compiled busybox.

I like some of these because it has that retro 90's laincore feel. But i also wonder if there is any that would have a 00's feel maybe like 2005 or something.

>>8537 Does FreeBSD have the soykaf tier screen tearing and weird usability problems that most of the less mainstream linux distros still have? I'm tempted to try it but if its just going to be endlessly tinkering with soykaf I'll not bother

>>8544 I mean, that's my Artix desktop, but yeah, it's an Xorg problem, not really a GNU/Linux problem. It's one of the reasons why a lot of the more mainstream distros are switching to Wayland (other than just using Gnome as their default desktops). I'm pretty sure there are tweaks in xorg.conf.d you can do to mitigate it. Using a compositor like Compton or Xcompmgr seems to help in most cases. Otherwise, your best bet is to switch to Wayland.

>>8546 I realised it was just an unusual DE rather than Free BSD about five minutes after I posted but I was too lazy to say anything What is your desktop enivornment/WM setup if you don't mind me asking? Looks vaguely like NEXTstep

>>8544 >Does FreeBSD have the soykaf tier screen tearing Yes, if no compositor used. I don't care so I don't use one. >weird usability problems that most of the less mainstream linux distros still have? I don't know, what weird usability problems do most of the less mainstream linux distros still have? I don't encounter any major problems in my day-to-day usage of FreeBSD.

>>8537 I like how comfy and clean your desktop looks, anon. Is that Afterstep or it's another window manager?

Am I a cool hacker yet? t. larper

>>8553 Yeah, it's called Window Maker, it's meant to emulate the look and feel of NEXTstep as part of the GNUstep project. I don't really like the project's focus on OOP, but I'll be damned if this WM isn't comfy as hell. It's really a good middle ground between a DE and a WM. You get most of the helpful features of a DE, like a graphical configuration tool and a dock, but it's also just as modular as a pure Window Manager, and can still be configured through text files.

>>8565 Thanks anon, I downloaded it last night and had a play with it, it's pretty fun to mess around with but I don't thin I could replace cinammon with it. Why do you use it, did you just install it on a whim and found you liked it or had you used NEXTstep in the past?

>>8571 I was looking for a WM that would work well with my convertible laptop, but coming from minimal WMs like CWM, I didn't want a massively bloated DE. WMaker seemed like the best middle ground. I never used NEXTstep, but I liked the functional aesthetic.

>>8337 Posting an update. I switched to GNOME and it's actually really nice to use, works intuitively, runs smoothly, who would've thought? Hell I'd probably be using it on my laptop if everything wasn't so big at 1366*768.

>>8575 I too find gnome to be quite comfy lain. What are you playing?

>>8576 Death stranding. I'm having a great time with it, moving through the environment while balancing load, picking up cargo along the way and plotting routes efficiently is a very engaging challenge. It reminds me a lot of spintires, except on foot and with a less detailed physics simulation, the tire and ground deformation and the mud/liquid simulation in that game really is next level. Great presentation and performance, too!

Fixed my terrible contrast, and changed my background to something more to my liking. I really need to change my bpytop's theme though.

>>3030 Does anyone know how people make the neat little cross stitch-like effect on pictures like these?

>>8650 Look into dithering.

>>8650 RGB to Bitmap and back to RGB

>>7760 whats that theme and specifically what that icon theme?

>>3908 Not League, but that's actually a plus.

>>2959 I just changed my dock view and it makes me feel i have a bigger screen :)

The only time I actually see my desktop is when I post it in desktop threads It may as well be a blank screen

>>2959 Hecking pupperino :).

>>8734 Puppy? nice <3

>2020 >linux what for?

>>8736 Hi lain this is future Lainchan from 2021, you're going to be alright just watch out for the

>>8016 LXLE is great. >the body was too short

>>8734 I find it to be really interesting to see someone using Puppy Linux in the wild. Seeing you has reminded me of so many things. 9 years ago DamnSmallLinux and Puppy Linux were the go-to distros for small and light portable and bootable thumbdrive distros. Not to mention for saving or reviving old PCs. I used both Puppy and DSL a lot, but Puppy had way more features and apps while still being able to boot on a PC with as little as 32MB of RAM. I fuarrrking loved Puppy. But recently I went to look into Puppy again because I wanted thumbdrive distro for old PCs again and found that soykaf had changed. The home page says there's multiple official Puppy Linux's, but it doesn't explain why a person would want to use one or the other, why a person should choose which one for which task. And it really isn't small or able to run on old PCs anymore. This post from 2018 says it should have a whole gig of RAM! https://blog.puppylinux.com/xenialpup-released Now what makes this really stupid is that Puppy Linux still seems to advertise itself as being light, but that page says it MUST have at least 768MB of RAM and a 1GHZ CPU. And Puppy Linux is it's own project made to be light and small? For comparison, LXLE is a distro that uses the huge and bloated Ubuntu as it's base, which then uses LXDE for it's desktop, and then it has a load of preinstalled full desktop GUI apps for convenience. I currently have it running on a netbook with a 900MHZ CPU and 512MB of RAM and it runs great. So to recap, Puppy Linux, a standalone distro that had been touted for years as being a tiny distro for very old and weak PCs or for being run off a thumbdrive requires 768MB of RAM and a 1GHZ CPU at a minimum, but the devs think this is not a great experience and that you SHOULD be using a 1GB of RAM and a 1.6GHZ CPU Meanwhile, LXLE, a distro based on the bloated Ubuntu and filled with a load of large GUI apps can speed along with just 512MB of RAM and a 900MHZ CPU. It's so sad to me! This was such a wonderful little project that filled its niche so well! Now it doesn't even seem to acknowledge its niche and I can't even tell from its website what niche its devs think it is made to fill. So I gotta ask you >>8734, why do you use it? What role does it play for you? Do you like it? How long have you been running it?

>>8016 >>8738 What the heck is the difference between Lubuntu and LXLE anyway? It's easy to give into despair at the abandonment of LXDE in favor of more bloated Qt-based components, but it's not quite so disheartening once you realize what the major components are, namely Openbox and PcManFM. Those are still alive and healthy and aren't likely to be abandoned anytime soon. So it's really lxpanel that's the biggest dropped component, which was never really all that impressive to begin with. You can easily replace it with some other lightweight panel alternatives.

>>8739 Well, the story is long. I have an Acer Aspire one D270 and it was starting to get old with windows 7, not to say it was second hand. So I decided to switch to Linux, first I installed linux MATE and there was a bug that if I downloaded something, the whole notbook froze, so I got angry and installed Lubuntu, it worked fine, but I'm a retard and thought to myself "Why don't I use mAnjAro!!!". It didn't work, no wi-fi, no pamac (for some reason) so I said "Fuark it, fuark windows and Linux, i'm using Haiku OS". And like I said, I'm retarded, so I screwed up the installation, I couldn't install any operating system., Not lubuntu, manjaro, mate. It did't boot from the HDD, and I try using NomadBSD, but It was tricky to get to the desktop. So, a couple days ago I remembered Puppy linux, and I decided to give it a try because I remember hearing that it's different, it use RAM to install or something like that. So that's why I'm on puppy now, stupid, isn't? I don't care that much about my notebook, I use Ubuntu on my main PC ( >>8688 ) And I rarely use my notebook to write something on Writer, but puppy linux is doing it's job well.

>>2995 share pape please?

>>8513 How do you get htop to tree processes like that?

>>8743 That's as good a reason as any.

>>8745 it's F5, it says "List" because it's also the button to switch back to the list view, in the list view it would say "Tree" you could've found out easily if you just opened htop though

>>6346 that wallpaper is great, care to share?

>>8734 Nice! I use fossapup on old computers with a usb stick in my college. especially in this one lab where the computers are clearly not fitted for Win10, yet, college being college, installed win10 anyway. they choke alot on that OS. Poor computers...

simple setup featuring asuka winamp

>>6074 I really like your wallpaper lainon, could please share it.

This week i discovered awesome and mpd. Wish I looked into them sooner, would've saved me from tinkering with (in my opinion) alternatives like dwm or i3 with unusable defaults. >>3816 >learn lua No need, awesome actually has a usable default configuration. At most you'll need set the terminal and editor variable to what you use and comment out the layouts you don't need, it's pretty self explanatory. Run prompt, program launcher and whatnot are all included. >wayland port There was an attempt named way-cooler. It's dead. Your only choice for a mostly functional tiling wayland compositor is sway, but even then, it's not quite at feature parity with i3. >>3823 I find it similarly nice to use at 1366*768 on my 12" laptop and at 1920*1200 on my monitor. I wouldn't use it on my desktop, since that's 3840*2160, so I run GNOME on there >>8575 , plenty of screen space and the hardware to back it up. >>4900 That wallpaper is a higher resolution than 1366*768, isn't it? >>5250 Really enjoyed my time with archlabs. The installer and default configuration are very nice. >>5486 Definitely give awesome a try. It has every tiling layout i can think of, without foregoing thing like title bars or edge tiling you'd expect from any proper floating WM. It's definitely the easiest WM to get into, with all the tiling and floating functionality you could possibly need.

>>6235 can you share your wallpaper lain?

>>6051 what color scheme?

>>8742 Nice sailormoon wp

>>8900 How's that thing perform with 16 gigs of ram? I recently traded for an X230 with 4 and I'm thinking about upgrading to 8 or 16.

>>9014 Extremely well. It is a worthwhile upgrade even if your daily computing doesn't mandate it. Reduced read/write operations to storage is nice, be it by keeping your browser profile in memory, caching entire ISOs when uding emulators or building projects with many files entirely in RAM. As I often need to use Windows-specific software, being able to allocate 8GB or more to virtual machines really helps. Linux doesn't handle high memory pressure or OOM conditions very well by default. Even if you don't go for the highest capacity, fastest memory your machine supports, as I did, just sticking in another 4GB stick will double your bandwidth and capacity, which will make any software happier, as you won't be hitting your swap file as early (or at all).

>>6235 Did you use rainmeter?

>>2959 Void on Musl / dwm 6.3 (w/ slstatus) / basic ncmpcpp 200mb RAM on start.

>>9038 blyat', ufetch shows what slstatus as wm. lol'ed

wondering how many posters here are troons

>>9117 How's Red Hat btw? Or is that just a skin, superficially trying to mask what on closer inspection turns out to be some other distribution?

>>7768 Just do it. Make backups so you have no reason to be scared. Then install GNU/Linux. >>8572 >>5486 >I was looking for a WM Try IceWM/OpenBox. Use tmux and/or emacs for tiling. >>3819 >>8736 >>5968 >>5995 GNU/Linux respects your freedoms and it is more pleasant to use. It even runs games now, with Wine or Proton. GNU/Linux is also faster, more secure and private. You can learn more at https://www.fsf.org/ and https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ Remember, you can always dual-boot, too. >>3816 > if I want to learn lua - is it difficult? No, Lua is easy. Read https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html >>5485 >Cinnamon on other distros meanwhile (especially Arch) is soykaf. Last time I tried it, Cinnamon worked well on Debian. >>5995 >Basically I can't be assed to -pacman a bunch of things WTF? Using a package manager is literally easier than downloading an installer a la windows. You just install everything once and use a command it keep everything up-to-date. >>6236 >how stable is Debian testing? Another Lain, but I ran Debian testing for a couple of years and nothing broke. I recommend you install apt-listbugs to be sure. >>6406 >having to make my games compatible with Linux. Try Proton.

>>9119 nope, it's legitimate RHEL

Something like that. Well, screenshot taken about half of year, but no changes. Blame me for ms teams and skype, that's disgasting and I know that.

>>2967 >>2994 >>3022 >>3051 >>8649 Impressive work, these look really nice. I'm a sucker for bitmap fonts >>6682 looks almost complete, but how about the wicd/network manager icon? >>7760 >>8649 noice, very clean >>8656 read the terminal... >>8742 why aren't you using a bitmap font?

simple but i like it <3 ik windows is cringe but whatever

>>9276 Musicbee is the only windows program i actually miss, such a shame there's no linux music player as comfy and feature rich as that one :/

>>9276 can you send an image of that desktop background pls?

>>9278 here you go enjoy :)

>>9279 thanks, love the wallpaper!

>>9276 your interface is so clean ! what softwares did you use to make it look that way ? o:

simple arch laptop, not much but it gets the job done.

>>9284 thanks! i'm using RoundedTB and TranslucentTB for the taskbar, Rainmeter + DropTop for the top bar, niivu's Everforest theme, and StartAllBack

Here's some winter wallpaper for a 1920x1080 screen.

>>5486 Napoleon at Egpyt , noice......

>>9273 you've convinced me to rewatch naruto again without skipping fillers this time!

>>8337 >>8575 >>8900 Your BG is from Mirrors Edge right? Man, I haven't seen this game pass my eyeballs in years. The lighting is very distinct in that game. Thanks for reminding me of some long lost memories.

>>2959 my mildly modified windows <3

>>9767 Cute lain desktop <3 But Kendrick Lamar tho </3

Після звільнення мене відвезли прямо в кам’яницю моєї родини, яку перетворили на імпровізовану в’язницю. Моя дружина і деякий час моя маленька донька також були замкнені в будинку, який був оточений камерами спостереження, прожекторами та змінним кордоном охоронців. Таке життя в Москві.

github.com/andrei-lus/dotfiles

mine is pretty simple, although you cant really see my background at all

>>2959 Could I have a copy of the color palette, please?

Dual screen setup. Simple and red (mostly)

recently i customized plasma a bit for the first time. pretty fun.

Oh boy, a desktop thread. Always love these.

>>9976 Very nice, I was using global menus with Plasma, I think it looks great, but I had an annoying bug with GTK software where the menu would not appear sometimes, and I had to unfocus and focus the window manually to make it appear. How is it working out for you?

>>9979 hey, thanks for the reply :D regarding global menu, i don't think i have seen any particularly consistent bugs. one thing is when i open a window that doesn't provide a menu (e.g. Packet Tracer) the global menu is that of whatever window is underneath it. but that might just be a feature. I must agree tho that while Plasma looks very good it does do some weird stuff sometimes. what are you using now?

>>8337 >Mirror's Edge You have great taste, anon. It's one of my favorite games

Eventually i'll hop to either debian or void, but for now i rely on good ol' de-snapped ubuntu MATE