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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 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also hyprland if your distro has it.

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

awesome while you're at it

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ohoho write that down write that down

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year 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 15 points 1 year ago

NixOS is the new "I use arch btw"

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

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Ah, alright

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] nobloat@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Knew I left something out

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're missing some tiling window managers

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

True, I might expand upon them ;)

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

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

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Using pop on that testing vm but some peops said Nix would be better for that experiment bc I already faced dependency issues whilst trying to add Pantheon

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Titou@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

where's the glorious Dwm ?

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The only correct option

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Another one for the list ;)

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's literally me when I first got into Linux

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

Couldn't I just press Ctrl+Alt+F1

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

What is cutefish, and how do I use it?

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year 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)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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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