Memes @lemmy.ml Zyratoxx @lemm.ee 9 mo. ago

I need MORE

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

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No sway? No Fluxbox? No i3? No Plasma(wayland)? Pathetic. (jk)
- Good input, I'm gonna add these to my collection
  
  Also hyprland if your distro has it.
  
  Windowmon gotta catch em all 🎶🎵
- Bspwm? dwm? What about my favorites??
- no Pantheon, arguably the most polished DE
Ummm i dont wanna be the guy but on nixos you wouldnt encounter dependency issues... i use nixos btw
- NixOS is the new "I use arch btw"
- Listen, if we could afford to give up half a terabyte just for our OS install, we'd be running Windows.
  
  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.
- Does NixOS offer variants of Pantheon, Unity or Cosmic tho?
  
  Cosmic yes, idk about pantheon or unity. It probably does have them as nixpkgs is literally the largest package repo.
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
- 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")
install sway too
- Good to see some Sway love in here. Been using it for a year or so and it works great
  
  I was using i3wm and have migrated pretty recently. Rewriting the config was much less scarier than I initially hoped.
- Knew I left something out
You're missing some tiling window managers
- True, I might expand upon them ;)
Where is hyprland ?
- I'll add it :D
  
  What OS are you on? I hear it's a pain to add to Ubuntu.
  
  Thanx
What, no Enlightenment?
- Yeah, I forgot some window managers I admit :')
XFCE for me thanks
- Hehe :p
where's the glorious Dwm ?
- The only correct option
- Another one for the list ;)
That's literally me when I first got into Linux
- I remember making lots and lots of VMs and sitting night over night because VM ≠ real hardware (surprisingly)... Those were wild times
- The boot menu was pretty long as well!
Gotta get some ratpoison
- But will it kill my XFCE (because of the mascot - idk if it's a rat or mouse)?
Looks like my own used to look before. Just pure fun to try all of them because why not. :)
- I would use different users to be sure to not mess up some dotfiles. Also icons and fonts will be very messed up
  
  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
  
  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).
What is cutefish, and how do I use it?
- 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)
  
  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.
Terminal. 🤡
- Couldn't I just press Ctrl+Alt+F1
That was me, long 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)
Everything apart Wayland please
- Idk gow you mean your comment but I have nothing against Wayland personally, it's getting better for me and I quite enjoy Waydroid on my little convertible
  
  Funny, Waydroid was the reason I switched to Wayland.
  
  Even though it seems to be kinda dead now? Android 11 is at least 1½ years old, and there are many more things that should be worked on.
  
  They use rootful LXD containers instead of kata, qemu or podman, so Waydroid is, to my knowledge, basically a security hole in many distros.

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