btw, I wanted to add Pantheon (Elementary OS’ Desktop) too but upon dependency issues I decided not to
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.
awesome while you’re at it
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no Pantheon, arguably the most polished DE
Bspwm? dwm? What about my favorites??
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.
Ah, alright
Make your own with GTK and Hyprland using ags. Its like gnome on the backend but your own custom JavaScript for the frontend.
The authors personal dotfiles are pretty slick.
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.
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
Thanx
where’s the glorious Dwm ?
The only correct option
Another one for the list ;)
What, no Enlightenment?
Yeah, I forgot some window managers I admit :')
XFCE for me thanks
Hehe :p
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!
Terminal. 🤡
Couldn’t I just press Ctrl+Alt+F1
Gotta get some ratpoison
But will it kill my XFCE (because of the mascot - idk if it’s a rat or mouse)?
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.
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)
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)
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).
Gnome and Plasma is the absolute worst example. Normally either GNOME or Plasma take over all icons and everything looks messed up. For me even after installing just Dolphin on GNOME everything was messed up.
Yeah I know. I use plasma icon themes, they seem to work much better in both Gnome and Plasma than using Gnome themes.
I mean you could symlink your histfile and such if you really wanted
Yeah but it’s a lot more things. Every thing I do in one account would have to replicated in another, pretty much. Becomes hard.
Even though using github and online storage makes things a lot easier.
