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btw, I wanted to add Pantheon (Elementary OS' Desktop) too but upon dependency issues I decided not to

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

No sway? No Fluxbox? No i3? No Plasma(wayland)? Pathetic. (jk)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Good input, I'm gonna add these to my collection

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also hyprland if your distro has it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

awesome while you're at it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ohoho write that down write that down

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Ummm i dont wanna be the guy but on nixos you wouldnt encounter dependency issues... i use nixos btw

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

NixOS is the new "I use arch btw"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Listen, if we could afford to give up half a terabyte just for our OS install, we'd be running Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Lol i used a 64gb pendrive with nixos as my main for months. I only took the effort to switch to ssd becsuse boot was slow and the pendrive started dying. The main problem with nixos is that the learning curve is a wall instead of a curve.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Make your own with GTK and Hyprland using ags. Its like gnome on the backend but your own custom JavaScript for the frontend.

https://github.com/Aylur/ags

The authors personal dotfiles are pretty slick.

https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If I find the time & motivation to do so I might do. Atm I'm happy with what I've got (not this setup, this is just a VM I use for "scientific purposes")

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good to see some Sway love in here. Been using it for a year or so and it works great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I was using i3wm and have migrated pretty recently. Rewriting the config was much less scarier than I initially hoped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Knew I left something out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're missing some tiling window managers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

True, I might expand upon them ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What OS are you on? I hear it's a pain to add to Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I forgot some window managers I admit :')

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

where's the glorious Dwm ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The only correct option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Another one for the list ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's literally me when I first got into Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I remember making lots and lots of VMs and sitting night over night because VM ≠ real hardware (surprisingly)... Those were wild times

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Couldn't I just press Ctrl+Alt+F1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is cutefish, and how do I use it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's basically a Plasma fork that mimics macOS. It has been made for CutefishOS but it is also obtainable for Ubuntu/Debian based distros via a script but idk if it is available to other distros aswell and how well Cutefish actually works because the Desktop is one of those that really didn't handle all the other desktops well (or maybe the script didn't execute properly)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I went to the GitHub for it and I love the look but it appears abandoned as far as I can tell. Very sad. Maybe I'll reach out to the old maintainer and fork it. I spend a lot of time making gnome look like Mac OS so this looks fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Tbf you could change Plasma to work similar to macOS' Desktop in a few clicks and Unity also gets close if I am not mistaken (and has been revived afaik)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

But will it kill my XFCE (because of the mascot - idk if it's a rat or mouse)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'm quite happy with my setup (not this one. This is just a VM I set up for "scientific purposes" and to see how some DEs are evolving)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like my own used to look before. Just pure fun to try all of them because why not. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I would use different users to be sure to not mess up some dotfiles. Also icons and fonts will be very messed up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use(d) a VM for testing purposes and things were working quite well unti I added Plasma. So, if I take this to real hardware I might split up the QT and GTK based DEs in separate distros

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I agree, that would be the best, but also slightly annoying. No more common shell history or web history and stuff like that.

I haven't had any major breakage using both Gnome and Plasma myself. It works fine. But it's annoying to see Gnome apps in the Plasma menus (when typing program names).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gnome and Plasma is the absolute worst example. Normally either GNOME or Plasma take over all icons and everything looks messed up. For me even after installing just Dolphin on GNOME everything was messed up.

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