I personally do like all the eye candy, especially animations and round borders, but sometimes i do enjoy using compositors without any of that just as a change of pace. I also really like river for example.
i3wm has been my daily driver for the past 4 years. I just flow on it
Same here, improved imprived improved. I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (… Wayland is the future yo). One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it’s own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one. The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images. (… i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)
Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).
Sway not mentioned?
Hyprland is the future old man
Do the windows wobble?
Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.
Effects aside compiz was just gorgeous, every time i go looking for window decorations on pling it always seems like the pretty ones were made for just compiz
Compiz is Xorg exclusive
Yes.
nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off
Same applies to gaps
I was surprised to learn that
- a) macOS only recently added Left/Right-tiling natively (without extensions, just like GNOME does)
- b) they leave gaps when you tile them so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don’t mind it being an option, but to me it’s such a weird choice for the default.
plus it’s literally unused screen space
I suppose you’re mainly concerned about LibAdwaita-Apps?
Luckily most gui toolkits have a way of disabling CSD. For gtk/libadwaita I recommend something like Gradience to generate a theme with corners of your liking.
But I want to keep Christopher Street Day :(
CSD stands for Client Side (window) Decorations in this case.
Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE’s idiosyncrasies also helps with work – I’m never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.
KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.
I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.
