Nothing super crazy. This is on a Panasonic SV1, my primary laptop for school/coding. Yes, it’s crying a little bit, it’ll be okay tho (:

I’m totally new to everything but I really enjoyed messing around with this! I was largely inspired by a different popular rice that made rounds and was Evangelion themed. I built on that and made this my own thing, plus added a hyprland-esque activity transition desktop effect (custom). Forgot to show the dock/panel, sorry! It is hidden by default and shows on mouseover on the bottom of the screen.

For some reason this recording seems to lag and jump some of the aforementioned desktop effect. In real time it looks cooler ;<

I’m larping and lowkey not even into P3 that much, I just liked the wallpapers and character design. Also I heard blue psychologically makes you not want to kermit as much and I got depression so. Yeah. LOL

ANYWAYS hope yall enjoy this as much as I do. It makes my eyes very happy.

Hey guys! Last month I've been building my dream desktop environment. I've been developing in Java and Rust doing boring things over 12 years, and I always wondered why cheap operative systems had to look like Windows 95.

I am running broke on my job and no company wants to take me so I am experimenting new things and building startups and these "dream" non-profit things I always wanted to make.

I built my open source free desktop environment for Linux with one simple purpose:

• Revive, maintain and recycle old hardware without losing the UI/UX.

Why doing this?

• Some people still use windows on these computers, yikes.
• The linux alternatives are ugly, and the ones that are not, are heavy yikes.
• I want to end the loop of "distro hopping to find the lightest one" and make the definitive.
• I don't know, just passion for not throwing away working hardware? lol

If you want to give it a look:

https://github.com/ArkFlame/flamewm

This started as a Quickshell bar and kept growing until it became a whole desktop. Everything you see is one setup: the bar with an island in the middle that turns into the launcher, the control center, the player and the
rest, plus a few apps of its own, an installer, and a phone link.

Pick one of 14 Catppuccin accents, or go light with Latte, and the shell, GTK and Qt apps, Firefox, VS Code, kitty, the icons and even the wallpaper follow it.

2 things I'm happy with:

- the phone shows up in the bar with its battery and notifications (KDE Connect's protocol, my own implementation)
- updates take a snapshot first, and if the system doesn't boot afterwards it rolls itself back

More screenshots, a 90-second video and an ISO you can install are on
https://vyntarisos.com . It's free and open source, and it's a alpha: if you try it and something breaks, or something looks off design-wise, tell me. That's half the reason I'm posting.

Now I can say "I use Arch btw" lol 😏😏😏

OS: Arch Linux

Compositor: Hyprland

Dot: Caelestia (full)

Check out the full video here: https://youtu.be/2nzpylsME1k?si=IbQyJJiyoHSbFKeH

Had an old,unused PC decided to install arch and now im getting deeper and deeper into to rabbit hole. I am very new to linux so I am using noctalia shell, and I am wondering is quickshell worth learning to create even better rices for myself ? Noctalia is perfect and I love the ease of customisation - changing my bar to whatever I like, whenever I like which is about every 2 days, and I love how quick I can do it, so would I just be wasting my time learning quickshell or even waybar or is it now obsolete ?

my first rice on debian 13 with hyprland and quickshell

List of Extensions I used (Some of them may need patching to work on 51)

App Grid Tuner
AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
Blur my Shell
Burn My Windows
Dash to Dock
Desktop widgets by r3nhick
Global Menu for GNOME (Needs Patching)
GTK4 DING
Hide System Icons
Just Perfection
Kiwi Menu and Kiwi is not Apple
Rounded Window Corners Reborn (a fork of it)
Tiling Shell
Top Bar Organizer
Wiggly
WACK Sonoma Lockscreen (Needs Patching

and optionally Pamac if you are on Arch

X Linux My personal project, which is slowly evolving into an Arch-based Linux distribution focused on productivity, an "out-of-the-box" experience, speed, and aesthetics. It comes with equisdots (a project developed for Hyprland and niri)—all available at github.com/equislinux and github.com/equisdots—and is open to developers who wish to contribute.

I’ve been putting together my CachyOS desktop and really like how it turned out. The interface feels clean, simple, and beautiful without being cluttered. Sharing a screenshot in case anyone else enjoys a minimal desktop setup!

pink and white Lain Niri customization ^{_^} let's all love lain 🩷

this is my first setup:

-i edited hyprland to be scrolling like niri.

-installed another github to give me the zoomout view.

-edited the key bindings so i can change the order the way i have shown in the vid.

i didnt use niri because caelestia isnt as native to it as hyprland and it misses some of the fluidity and flexibility hyprland has, but i am sure it will get better in the near future

i havent done any ricing or styling other than this, i am thinking of styling the terminal the panels and so on next