The Picard ManeuverThe bloat is coming from inside the house!
illusionistI almost spit out my coffee. Thanks!
SkullgridSome people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system
Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat
They are not the same
Insert two wolves meme here
It’s not bloat if you want it
One man’s bloat is another’s treasure
don’t love your desktop bloat, bloat your desktop love
FreshLightWhatever bloats your boat.
Big Baby ThorI’m the second part of this statement and I don’t like it.
MalReynoldsYou may see insanity, I see home.
I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So… literally have nothing to do with Linux
Man, you have a lot of confidence in your ability to tell Rainmeter apart from Conky, Eww or the like, from just a handful of pixels…
Let’s just say I’ve used Rainmeter a lot. Is it possible people have created replica themes on Conky? For sure. I just found it funny that the image included Rainmeter skins. They’re the kind of images you’ll see as the poster for certain themes. And I’ve scrolled through more of them than I’d like to admit. And many of them are reposted a lot but use the same poster/thumbnail
I slightly customized my KDE taskbar by centering it with panel spacers because that was the only thing i liked about Win11. Set it to auto-hide for OLED reasons. I dont remember if the slightly floaty style was standard with my distro or i did it?
Then like two tweaks to dolphin to make it look more like the ‘detailed’ view in windows explorer which is the only legit way to view files. Everybody else with these giant folders is fucking crazy. Probably the only thing where i’m not open minded.
Uh, yeah thats it. Havent changed anything else in almost two years on two different distros.
BurgerBaronThen like two tweaks to dolphin to make it look more like the ‘detailed’ view in windows explorer which is the only legit way to view files. Everybody else with these giant folders is fucking crazy. Probably the only thing where i’m not open minded.
I’m among the few who general use / game on linux in the living room on a TV sitting on the couch at a distance, and I still rather use detailed view lmao. Hard agree.
Everybody else with these giant folders is fucking crazy.
Hey, man. Sometimes I’m dealing with images a lot, and it helps to have image thumbnails big enough to see clearly.
Yeah, thumbnails plus the details panel on the side is way more useful information for me than the list view. If I just wanted a list I wouldn’t be using a graphical file manager in the first place
Eh, list has its place, and I’ll still use it sometimes.
List shows you more files on one screen, and it can show details of the files like filesize and last modified date without having to click on each file to get that.
The high customisability of Linux desktop is part of the reason why I moved from Windows. Everything looks so clean and modern, and doesn’t have any of the Windows bloat. It’s so good.
It really is. Every time I think “Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]”, I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.
And when it’s not, I go with a GPT that helps me make some tiny bash script within one or two simple prompts. It doesn’t cover all edge cases, but it solves the problem that I have, in the simplest possible way, which I enjoy a lot. I collected hundreds of tiny scripts so far. Most of them, I have no reuse for, so I don’t know, I think perhaps there’s some value in having a blog about them.
cally [he/they]I just have Niri with Waybar and a consistent color scheme
I’m a recent covert for my daily driver.
I actually liked my Windows setup because it was fast and streamlined.
What I didn’t care for was cutting out bloat every major update and the surprises like “we just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid them”
“we just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid them”
And then deleted the originals on your computer so that your only copy is in our cloud.
CaesarNK 𒄷It doesn't matter if it takes 12 minutes to boot, I spent 12 mf hours making custom icons that match my theme
Jo Miran
Chemical WonkaI’ m a vanilla guy
rozodruI like retro computing so I have one computer that has Niri themed like Windows 98, also have Plasma on it themed the same way. then I have another that has Sway themed like the Apple II.
I got to the point in my life where I just enjoy a basic Debian XFCE with no customization (except for removing the bottom bar and adding some shortcut keys). With so much going on with life, I learned of enjoy the never-changing stability on my PC.
Me too. I recently switched from NixOS to Fedora workstation because I didnt have the energy anymore to maintain my config. And all my kubernetes stuff got shoved in proxmox lxcs via the community scripts.
It’s just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.
macnielYeah - I like my stuff. It might be a little bit messy, but I like it. But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
Well, that depends… How valuable is his stuff?
Daethats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i get an aneurysm when tryi g to use windows… or a DE on Linux
Its fun. With the power of nixos i always have a safe fallback in case i brake something and need my laptop.
That’s okay. I don’t customize anything to balance it out.
YerboutiFinally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens
KDE has been able to do this for a long time.
System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules
Or, right click on the title bar of the window you want to make a rule for --> more aptions --> configure special window settings
From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on.
Thank you very much!
It feels like forcefemming my pc.
Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc
A_Chilean_CyborgCustomization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that’s why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.
…but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
It’s all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.