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I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.
I told my wife, "but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care." And that was that.
I shall tell this story to my grandkids.
"but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care."
Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually
Does your Windows do this? *doesn't crash*
But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.
nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
on the new Laptop and
cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.
Next time you could even add gzip or some other compression and save yourself a bit of time and bandwidth.
Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots
More like do that in Windows with any tools. It doesn't like being moved to different hardware one bit.
I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called "compiz" (iirc). "I'm so frickin 1337," I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.
IIRC Compiz was a fork of Beryl or the other way around. I could be wrong though.
Last I checked you can still do the cube in kwin under plasma.
It was gone from Plasma for a bit, however it'll be back in the next upcoming Plasma 6 release!
at least wobbly windows stuck around though. i've had that on for like 10 years
Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it's a bit "silly" for me to have it enabled - but there's plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there's a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.
Nobody cared except me, though, lol.
Life in a nutshell...
check wayfire :)
Oh yeah! That's ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).
Damn, English is weird 🤣
It sure is :D
And that's how you create an Arch Unstable user
Choo choo UBUNTU
Choo choo proprietary stuff and holding security unless you subscribe to services. :P
I hate moving windows around.
All windows open maximized without window decorations. Meta+WSAD moves the active window to the upper/lower/left/right half of the screen.
Meta+PgDown minimizes, Meta+PgUp maximizes. Meta+Q tiles windows horizontally, Meta+E vertically. Meta+X closes the window, Meta+Spacebar shows the desktop, Meta alone shows the workspace overview.
Fuck hunting for window borders, clicking and dragging. And fuck configuring all this in a text file.
(I use OpenSUSE with KDE by the way)
Ever considered trying out a tiling window manager?
I3 baby
No. I need the functionality of a full desktop environment.
And KDE's workspace overview is awesome. One keypress and I see all open windows, all workspaces and a global search field that switches to a program when it already has an open window and opens a new window if not.
And a tiling WM on top of KDE would be pointless to me since the behavior of a tiling WM can be configured through the GUI in KDE without installing anything extra.
What kde provides that sway or hyprland don't?
I'm not familiar with sway or hyprland, but KDE automatically finds and configures any modern scanner and printer in the network, makes all programs use the same theme, saves my passwords and certificates, auto-mounts attached drives, auto-starts programs and services, handles which program opens which file type, has a nice workspace overview, lets me configure the firewall, grub, bootsplash screen, VPN, network settings, monitors, keyboard layout, etc... all with sane defaults out of the box, localized to my language, and easy GUI configuration.
For what it's worth, a large number of the things you listed are actually portable into Sway, i3wm, and a lot of other tiling wms just by way of running the KDE settings daemons - I do the same kinds of things (network printer, theming, auto-mount, auto-start, XDG config, firewall, vpn, network settings, monitors, keyboard layout) just by having i3wm start up xfce-settings-daemon.
I'm not familiar enough with KDE to make promises about grub and splash, but I would imagine those would also work exactly the same as well. In fact, a little bit of searching and it looks like if you're on Wayland you could even just replace KWin (the KDE window manager) with Sway in the startup files and be 95% of the way there. Might just need to configure a system bar or something to that effect.
Gnome with forge is a good time
On Hyprland for a few days now and feeling the same way.
Amen. I'd install Hyperland on both of my "main" PC and on my Rpi 4 but my rpi 4 (still) has sway and it "just werks" so eeeeeh
My daily driver is Sway on Arch. I'll help shout out the glory of this setup.
I just got into wayfire after using Hyprland and nobody prepared me for the cylinder. I will open windows and wait for the screensaver just to see the rotating cylinder. So much better than the cube
Sway has become a joy to use over time as I've fucked with my config but now I feel like it's more boring too I barely ever feel the need or want to massively change anything 🥲
i think that's called liking your current config
Ew gross
Using a tiling wm and wanting to move windows around? 🤨
It's dynamic :)
I'm with you. One day I was like "I wonder if Wayland's mature enough to use as my daily driver now" and installed Sway on a Raspberry Pi. I used DWM before, but now Sway's my default.
The only issue I still have is that I wish Zoom and ffmpeg supported the wlroots-specific screen capture methods. Those are the only things lacking that are keeping me on i3/X11 on the machine I use for work.
Fedora Sericea is my current daily driver. Loving it so far. I've used Sway, River, and Hyprland on Arch, Fedora, and NixOS. The combination of an immutable system augmented by flatpaks and distrobox are supporting my goal to never wipe the drive again.
Sway is more stable and lightweight for me than Hyprland. I don't use Nvidia hardware at all. The lead Dev on Hyprland is a treasure though. 10/10 for that human being.
Do managers like this lend themselves to better performance? Or is it just more for looks/easy tiling?
Both i3 and sway are very lightweight so you do get good performance, but it's the easy tiling / no-nonsense looks that appeal to me.