Lin

@thievul

i want to be the sun

she/it girlbeast (no they)
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Professional transgender, amateur coder.
Occasional artist, frequent video game enjoyer.
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I rebug porn on @nickit

The handsome lad in my profile picture
is my Thievul character, Asriel. He's from a ttrpg game. No, he has nothing to do with Undertale.

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Lin @thievul6/20/2023, 5:30 PM

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ash @astral6/19/2023, 7:48 AM

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hecate @hecate6/20/2023, 3:56 AM

i think that customization in Linux shifted more to tiling wms and the stuff surrounding them (polybar/waybar, eww) tbh - things like base16 having a generic templating system so that you can generate themes for everything you need after putting together your own color scheme is also pretty pog (i got my own base16-pandora scheme into the proper base16 repos, which makes it pretty easy to use on whatever system i need to now)

it's definitely A Lot Weirder now but i think in terms of general flexibility, desktop Linux is there, but with a lot more work needing to be done to pick everything out and sculpt it all into something cohesive

i do miss the days of the aero theme and proper translucency n glassiness in my shells though....

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araly @araly6/19/2023, 10:09 AM

in linux world, if you want deep customization, we usually just skip the desktop environment altogether and make our own stuff. you mention compiz, but there are now other compositors instead.

also, through the last 5 years, wayland has replaced many people's xorg server (so the thingy that actually draws things on the screen), and so new tools (including for customization) are being rewritten.

r/unixporn or whatever communities exist outside of reddit are pretty good examples of what people do with their computers

cyan @crashlapine6/19/2023, 12:05 PM

feeling this hard... i still remember the era of windows where a program's title bar could have a gradient color from the left to right edges. went wild spending hours in customization options making sure the active/inactive window borders, font colors, and all that meshed well with each other

at some point windows7 came around and i just resigned myself to rainmeter skins. nowadays I've still got a classicshell/openshell mod swapping the w10 start menu with my own trademark #00FFFF ✖️, but it feels like that's as far as i can get without heavily editing system files manually...

HVB @hvb6/19/2023, 1:33 PM

i used to use dedicated software for this in the xp days called "styleXP". couple that with skins for winamp and trillian (old multi-protocol chat program) and you got yourself a stew going. also rainmeter! i kinda miss that as well although maybe not the time it took up lol. i had the same sort of fun when android custom firmware flashing was a big thing too

tertu marybig @tertu6/19/2023, 2:19 PM

at least on the linux world i see a lot of the same energy in, for example, custom i3 setups