The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Fraygorryt The Wise said:
I don't think slapping a wallpaper on and changing the color of your little status bar and window titlebars is comparable to overhauling the style of your window decorations, adding widgets to your desktop, using a matching icon theme, and styling your status bars and docks. Every high-level theme of GNUstep back in the day felt out of this world. Tiling WMs don't hold a candle.
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I think you vastly underestimate the amount of customization people do on tiling wms. You are probably right that old school floating desktops had more customization options, simply because tiling wms and the people that use them tend to lean pretty hard into minimalism, but they still have plenty of options.
 
Fraygorryt The Wise said:
I don't think slapping a wallpaper on and changing the color of your little status bar and window titlebars is comparable to overhauling the style of your window decorations, adding widgets to your desktop, using a matching icon theme, and styling your status bars and docks. Every high-level theme of GNUstep back in the day felt out of this world. Tiling WMs don't hold a candle.
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There are people that do all of that, and then take it even further with tiling window managers. It depends on the level of dedication, and if you're autistic enough to put in the effort.

But there are some people that do take ricing to the level where they are pretty much creating a custom desktop environment out of the tiling window manager, or wayland compositor they're using.

Now days with wayland people will often use hyprland for it, because you get these entire frameworks like quickshell, or some of the others, that are meant to be used to program a dock, or bar with widgets, and whatever else you can think of. And hyprland which already has a lot of configuration you can do, but more importantly it supports a plugin features meant to be used by people to extend it's capabilities, without having to add things to the project itself. And even people don't go that route the ipc it has is enough to do most things. Without even having to extend hyprlands functionality by writing plugins.

There are some genuinely impressive setups people have with these, even when they aren't your taste asthetically it's hard to deny they are impressive.

But that isn't the average rice. The average is something like you described. Changing your colorscheme, and thats about it.
 
Pork Wellington said:
As I've gotten older, I just stopped giving a shit and run default Xfce with some custom keyboard shortcuts.
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I went something similar, nowadays all I do is uncurveshit everything and throw a dock in to replace the start menu.

I will say I find newer distros to be absolute eyesores and only getting worse with the current design trends.
Im never leaving my current install lol
 
Jewish Man said:
Linux newgens always try LFS or Arch for their first distro sometimes without dual booting. My brother in HaShem, your drives is getting corrupted because of BitLocker because you didn't format it. If anyone asks, I throw them straight to Mint or Pop!, no discussion.
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Gentoo is unironically good for learning Linux. Arch is bad because of systemd, among other things. It's like the bell curve meme, where you start with Debian/Ubuntu, go through Arch/Gentoo/Void whatever, and end up in Debian/Devuan.
Before enlightenment, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.
During enlightenment, mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers.
After enlightenment, mountains are again mountains and rivers again rivers.
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- Zen master Qingyuan Weixin
 
me: i use linux btw
new user: oh i want to try linux but theres so many distros idk which one to pick, what do u use?
me, an artix user: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh linux mint
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Td5wq3Qb_RY
Lunduke is talking about kde dropping freebsd support for their login manager. In his usual style.

Basically implying its a big problem, and freebsd is going to have to work to fix it. The whole time I'm just thinking, why would thr freebsd people bother patching it, can't they just use slim? (I'm pretty sure they can). But that's what lunduke does. He makes everything out to be a huge deal.
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ok so like on the one hand RIGHT NOW this isnt a problem
but i actually just had a discussion with a linux content creator about *bsd support as a desktop and we were debating what has to be done to make it more normie friendly
he had said that kde needed to support most of their components on *bsd before it would be normie friendly and i had said that that kind of goes against what the bsds stand for, which for the most part is more strictly following the unix philosophy, (with other different philosophies between the bsds) meaning stuff like ur volume mixer and other stuff dont integrate with linux-first desktop environments
in the artix space weve been talking about kde possibly in the future being more systemd dependent, which i hope wont ever be the case,
 
If you're going to use some "just werks" Linux distro, just use Debian or Devuan (with Xfce). I don't understand what these garbage boutique distros like Mint even do.
 
polakrobak99 said:
If you're going to use some "just werks" Linux distro, just use Debian or Devuan (with Xfce). I don't understand what these garbage boutique distros like Mint even do.
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This is because you're reasonably competent. "Easy" distroes help us contain and identify the users who are not as competent. Mint exists wrt Linux for the same reason that 4chan has /b/ and the Farms has the Thunderdome.
 
Max Weber said:
Not with these prices, no. :(
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Thanks to the hardware price insanity I now hope that this is the year that normie PC users realize that no, you do not need to upgrade every year. Or even every other year. You can in fact play games *decent* at less than current-top-of-the-line hardware. I am playing new releases from 2025 on a PC that has major components as old as 2015. And you know what? I'm still able to have fun.




If the games are good they will still be good. The mindset of only allowing yourself to enjoy things at absolute maximum settings has been so destructive for the hobby; I hate seeing people act like the only option is to shell out $1000s of dollars yearly for shiny new hardware slop that's barely better than the old slop bought the previous year.
 
Battlefield42 said:
the year of gaming on linux?
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I suppose it depends on how hard Google makes it to port Proton and wine to Aluminum OS. If that comes out as a viable competitor to Windows then you could see more laptops on stores pre-installed with Aluminum OS.
 
Miller said:
then they reboot their computer and go back to Windows
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Never listen to the opinions of ricers or distro hoppers
The former don't even use computers if you think about it
Listening to the latter is like taking relationship advice from someone whose longest time dating a single person is a month
 
Holy shit after a few weeks of finally trying to figure out why my computer has been running like shit for a few months I figured it out. The memory clock speed of my GPU gets stuck on its lowest speed. This bug has been around for 7 months and randomly comes and goes it seems. No form of trying to fix it works outside removing every memory clock state other than the highest. You would think this would be a high priority fix, but I guess not. Anyways if anyone else has the same issue for some reason going into a tty and back to the desktop environment fixes it.

Max Weber said:
Rise up, gaymers, we have a new savior: GOG calls Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client / archive
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Open source or no use. Don't know why they wouldn't just work with any other game frontend. I think helping playnite come to linux or hiring full time devs for heroic would be far better of a choice.
 
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