I want my bar to look windows-esque
plugin
I want my tray to format the time differently
plugin
I want to change how the active windows looks in the bar
plugin
OS update
two of your plugins broke
I want my tray to format the time differently
new plugin
I want to change how the active windows looks in the bar
new plugin
OS update
let’s try KDE
OMG it’s perfect out of the box.
I know lots of people love KDE. I haven’t tried it yet. I just googled the difference when I was researching distros and chose GNOME because it looked more Mac-like, which is my preference.
If Mac’s your bread, gnome is your butter.
Of course, these days, if Windows 11 is your bread, maybe gnome is your butter.
I’m one of those crumudgeons that’s forever frozen at Windows 95.
You can have a dock/top taskbar and spotlight-type search easily in KDE. The benefit of KDE is that you don’t need third party, unmaintained extensions that break with every second update. Gnome Extensions are critical for even a mac-like experience on Gnome, and you will hate them one day when your programs start randomly crashing.
You could put a real clock near your monitor
I wish Xpenguins still worked. Who doesn’t want penguins walking all over the desktop?
This penguin maze is hilarious.
fwiw I use wayneko which works on Wayland and draws an animated cat that follows your cursor along the bottom of the screen. Not as chaotic as Xpenguins but it’s cute!
Every GNOME install tutorial:
please install this 3rd party application to install even more 3rd party extensions, otherwise your default experience will be shit.
Meanwhile KDE:
here you go, everything you need is here. Want more? Want less? Just touch me and find out, I can make your dreams come true, baby.
They could have literally absorbed a couple of the most used plugins into the desktop and i’d be on Gnome today.
nope, you need to go find those plugins and we’re going to make breaking changes constantly.
This was a mild pain. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, then I realized that the browser extension and tool worked flawlessly in Firefox, but not Brave.
For anyone that hasn’t played with this yet
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/
Im like the opposite of that lol :3 always looking for stuff I can remove from my desktop
One day, after years of chipping away small, useless details, your interface will finally be a blank screen. Flawless.
Almost there already tbh :3… if I didn’t need a clock or notifications, then I may have gone to just having my whole desktop be the wallpaper and nothing else lol
Now if only I could disable all the UI I don’t like in all the apps I need too lol
well, isn’t that a sign that you have installed too much in the first place? :D
Ikr? Desktop enviroment bloat :3
I am currently in the midst of messing around with hyprland for peak minimalism, but honestly I prefer having a full DE, messing around with config files is kinda frustrating when I want to just do 1 little thing… and oftentimes it’s also hard to get the configs exactly how I want (probably gonna go to COSMIC when it comes out :3… I tried the alpha and it’s the best tiling experience out there imo, plus it has decent customization in terms of removing all the little icons I don’t need for the most part :3… though I’d like to be able to remove the window close button too since we already can do minimize/maximize :3… and preferably remove the whole window top bar)
Hyprland is not very “minimalistic”. If you’re looking for a tiling Wayland compositor that’s minimal, I can’t recommend River enough. I’m aware that the suckless people have also tried making their own Wayland compositors but I’ve never tried them. River isn’t suckless but it is still very lightweight and doesn’t have all the flashy features Hyprland does.
Eh I tried a bunch of TWMs already, and I like hyprland :p. I know there are more minimal things like ratpoison or whatever if I wanted that, but for the GUI I want hyprland does what I want fine enough
Also the entire thing for me is basically temporary anyway, so it’s whatevs
