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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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[–] Rezzit@feddit.de 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also hyprland if your distro has it.

[–] knorke3@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

awesome while you're at it

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Ohoho write that down write that down

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] Ozy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

NixOS is the new "I use arch btw"

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does NixOS offer variants of Pantheon, Unity or Cosmic tho?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Cosmic yes, idk about pantheon or unity. It probably does have them as nixpkgs is literally the largest package repo.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, alright

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years 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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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")

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] nobloat@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Knew I left something out

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're missing some tiling window managers

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

True, I might expand upon them ;)

[–] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Titou@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

where's the glorious Dwm ?

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The only correct option

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Another one for the list ;)

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's literally me when I first got into Linux

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Couldn't I just press Ctrl+Alt+F1

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is cutefish, and how do I use it?

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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)

[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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)

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years 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)

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