styx

@styx-os

computing like it's meant to be

it/they (project, not person)
styx-os.org/

styx will be a consent-first, usability-oriented operating system, with a Linux® kernel, and a distribution of self-contained application packages.

We just want you to be able to use the computer without fighting it. That's all.

Use of other names and brands is not intended to reflect a claim of, or right to, use the name or brand.
styx is an operating system using the Linux kernel and components, and any use of "styx Linux" as a phrase does not reflect the inclusion of the Linux brand or trademark in the styx project.
Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

styx blog:

styx-os.org/

revolt.chat community server:

(coming soon)

preliminary discord devel server:

discord.gg/pGahFBBnRK

chief editor, primary contact:

cohost.org/sirocyl

styx @styx-os5/7/2023, 9:19 AM

sirocyl @sirocyl

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/6/2023, 4:03 PM

been trying linux as a desktop os for the first time in many years on my laptop. pleased to see it is still, unquestionably, as linux as ever

💤🌵🤖@cactus5/6/2023, 4:44 PM

this right here is what Sartre meant by "condemned to freedom"

sirocyl @sirocyl5/7/2023, 9:07 AM

i pray

that whoever is using @styx-os never hears the name "xorg" in vain. or any other context.

do windows users see "DWM" in their UI? No. Do Mac users fret about WindowServer? No.

shut the goddamn hell up GNU/

#styxposting #FOSS #open source IS a trash fire

styx @styx-os5/7/2023, 9:19 AM

debut post!

hi. This is styx. (@sirocyl here!)

We're working on making Linux less hellish, despite the name - we're going through hell so you don't have to. We've got an RFC track going with ideas as to what makes styx "styx", and hopefully those ideas ... sticks? right ok anyway

I'll be opening a blog here, and mirroring it to our not-very-secret website in the coming whenevers, to host RFCs, progress reports, poll for ideas and the like.

styx is a project borne of frustration. the parent post, is only the tip of the iceberg; some of us on the styx project are 20+ year Linux and UNIX veterans, and newcomers alike; and we all have had our own headaches with the system.

We just want you to be able to use the computer without fighting it. That's all.

#styxposting

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Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:04 PM

Oh no, who put you in Wayland hell :(

EDIT: What distro is this, this is hilarious. I WANT TO KNOW WHO DID THIS

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/6/2023, 4:11 PM

fedora latest, after I installed kde-desktop and switched to sddm this is how it came up

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:15 PM

I knew it.

If you're up for messing with DEs, I'd give the whole XFCE spin of Fedora a try. Or Ubuntu (Xubuntu). Juggling DEs on the same install tends to get... messy. As you've seen.

But that's also part of the fun, isn't it?

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 5:40 PM

but also if you uninstall the plasma or gnome groups it uninstalls sddm and so many tools that are unquestionably not plasma or gnome

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 5:49 PM

The Fedora "spins" are basically the distro but coming with a different DE out of the box. So it's not uninstalling the other DEs, it's uninstalling the whole OS to try a different DE. Not something worth doing outside of "fucking around to find out on a spare computer" testing.

Because when you try juggling DEs, silly things like you described happen. It's not just the UI it's whole sets of tools and program groups and it just gets.... so, so messy. :(

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:04 PM

my main desktop is one those such environments where it started with plasma, and I swapped the group for xfce after some performance issues.

I kept trying to solve it wanting to automatically remove sddm and so many dependencies, but there is no way to pin a package.

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 6:06 PM

Pin how so? Apt can do mark-hold so I'm sure yum can do similar... but that's very quickly getting into dependency hell.

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:25 PM

i couldn't find a way for yum (now dnf) to do so for keeping a package in those groups. Otherwise it's "do not track this package for installs or upgrades" with a plugin

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 6:28 PM

:unyeah:

erysdren @erysdren5/6/2023, 4:04 PM

oh yeah baby

No Man's Skye @AmanitaVerna5/6/2023, 4:10 PM

whispers Gnome More

Otter Arriving on Platform 1 @art-kitkat5/6/2023, 7:50 PM

none of these words are in the bible

Kaylon @kaylon5/6/2023, 9:36 PM

poyo

FavoritoHJS @FavoritoHJS5/6/2023, 11:11 PM

the final boss of desktop managers

Petra @petra5/7/2023, 8:52 AM

Mmmm, my favourite menu

The ones I use don't normally pollute it nearly as much but I do so love that illusion of choice. My computer could be blue today! Blue!

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Maff @maff9/19/2023, 2:44 PM

i just wanna note that i'm an unwilling mac user for work and i absolutely fret about windowmanager (because sometimes it just freezes and then i have to plug in/unplug an external monitor or shut and reopen the lid (because when the display geometry changes, windowserver is restarted, which is why any change to your displays causes the screen to fade to black) before the system watchdog notices how not alive windowmanager is and logs me out, losing all my work)