full desktop DEs inside terminals when
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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You mean Emacs?
Emacs is GUI
SystemDE
Year of the Linux terminal
The video demo is fucking art
But why? And how the fuck did this get into the arch official repos already?
Detective Pickachu here ! 
I ask why? Then I answer "why not"
I tried it for a bit, and it is kind of way too raw..but most of all it is pretty useless (at least to me) and hard to describe how strongly I hate this cursor. A lot of whys honesty . Cannot understand why it is promoted so hard β¦
Sometimes its nice to do a silly thing because we can. Like the gnome extensions that bring back wobbly windows or other egregious compiz effects
Hahaha , thatβs true
Useless? If we can get everyone to use this thing, we can finally invent the internet from Johnny Mnemonic!
Nothing to add. Just want to acknowledge that it is a well crafted comment
it's experimental, it's not supposed to be an actual terminal to be used (at least i don't think anyone would), the potential is future implementation of 3d rendering inside the terminal. it's a similar scenario to when kitty started to introduce images inside the terminal. is it necessary? no. but it's fun.
Iβm not against experiments. If it would result in something useful, it will be great
WTF do you mean? The rat is now the cornerstone of my terminal's functionality.
I'm imagining some script that only functions based on the angle/position of the rats spin
Can I see a hat wobble?
Terry A. Davis built this in his garage. With a box of scraps!
Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Terry A. Davis.
Name one purpose other than for the sake of it. That makes it fine art.
Hilarious, but also pretty cool. Could actually be nice for working with code cad!
Why
daddy why did you ate my fries
The demo video is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, I love it
Eliie: This is a Unix system! I know this!
That's really funny