Some 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
Whatever bloats your boat.
It’s not bloat if you want it
One man’s bloat is another’s treasure
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.
Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂
Yeah - 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.
And it’s your computer! if anything should be the way you like, it should be that.
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. And by a lot i mean for about 20 years. Is it possible people have created replica themes on Conky or viseversa on Rainmeter? 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
It’s just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.
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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.
thats 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 fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows… or a DE on Linux
You may see insanity, I see home.
No place like
/home/$USER!What is wrong with
$HOME?
Finally 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
They just release a new version. Most distro should offer it soon. Not sure it will do what you ask tho, maybe with Activities?
I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.
It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.
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”
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.
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.
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.
I 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.
Oh I love those themes, I also sometimes use the 98 one on Plasma and it makes people do a double take.
Bloat isn’t “software I chose and spent time installing and configuring”
But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”
True, and that’s a bad practice to take part in! If it’s something that actively runs and consumes resources, one should keep around only if needed.
Oh no
Look out
It’s CHOICE
I’ve been using Linux since Red Hat Halloween. I don’t think I’ve ever customized a GUI much beyond its standard settings. My CLI though…
