• Gork@lemm.ee
    4·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • simple@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      “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

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        2·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
          0·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • 30p87@feddit.de
            0·
            11 months ago

            The only problems with my Arch install were

            • /etc/fstab, which I forgot about because I didn’t read the whole install article again
            • custom configs (notable conky) because i8k is not available and all interfaces changed
              • 30p87@feddit.de
                1·
                11 months ago

                I’d guess many distros would’ve had errors with preinstalled and configured helpers. Debugging them would be a pain

                Gentoo, LFS, Arch etc. are installed manually, so one typically knows their system very well, including packages and configs they might have to hard configure interfaces etc. in

      • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I do a lot of desktop screen sharing through Teams and I’ve only had one person over the years say “what the hell is that?”

    • rudyharrelson@kbin.social
      0·
      11 months ago

      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.

            • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              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.

  • bar1@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • Lober@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    11 months ago

    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 🥲

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Hyprland is better if you’re on Nvidia as well.

      Mainly because if you ask for help with Sway on Nvidia then people basically tell you to fuck off and call you a cunt.

      For real tho, they’ll actually chastise you just for asking a question.