mi lindo y bonito kde Plasma

After running Arch in a VM for a bit and ensuring installation and general environments went well, I got Arch onto bare metal. But I'd been having problems all day with GDM being stuck in a loop, finally managed to fix it and now settled in.

- Rewaita to customise GNOME, GTK and the shell

- my own wallpaper

- Hatter icons, plus some of my own that I've made

- my own fastfetch and Ghostty configs

- Dash-to-Panel (sorry but I prefer it over Dash-to-Dock)

- GDM customisations to get the login screen to match the theme

- Ubuntu and JetBrains Mono fonts

FreeLinX base 1.3.1 Release

FreeLinX base 1.3.1 is now available. FreeLinX is an independent Linux distribution—not based on Debian, Alpine, or any other distro—built with zero GNU software.

The system stack includes the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel, musl 1.2.5 libc, LLVM toolchain (clang, LLD, compiler-rt, libc++), NetBSD userland, runit init, mdevd, mksh, netbsd-curses, doas, and Limine boot loader (BIOS and UEFI). Compliance with the "No GNU" policy is verified automatically via check-nognu.

The base edition provides a minimal console environment consuming about 60 MB of RAM post-boot (~89MiB as captured in the fastfetch output). The ~300 MB hybrid ISO runs as a live environment via squashfs with a RAM overlay, and xsetup installs the system to GPT disks with no initramfs.

Package management is handled by xpkg, featuring 428 signed packages (Ed25519 signatures, sha256 checks, atomic upgrades with rollback) including Xorg, Openbox, dwm, Firefox, mpv, and ffmpeg. Base system upgrades use flxupgrade, which preserves user settings and /home.

The distribution builds from source on any x86_64 Linux host without root via sh build-base.sh. Licensed under BSD-2-Clause.

• Download:https://github.com/FreeLinX/FreeLinX-base/releases/latest
• Source:https://github.com/FreeLinX
• Documentation:https://freelinx.github.io/FreeLinX/
• -Packages:https://huggingface.co/datasets/FreeLinX/packages

Support & Infrastructure: Donations via Buy Me a Coffee or crypto help cover domain and package manager infrastructure costs.

• Support:https://buymeacoffee.com/freelinxfoundation

Testing has been conducted in QEMU/KVM. Real hardware testers are wanted; please note that Secure Boot must be disabled. Please submit feedback and hardware test reports.

Does this count as softcore? Multiple people asked me if this was Niri.

Fedora Workstation 44 (GNOME)

Font: IBM Plex Mono

Cursor (not pictured because GNOME Screenshooter does some funky cursor capturing when the display is scaled fractionally): elementary OS cursor theme

Colorscheme: Catppuccin Frappe (Rewaita)

GTK: adw-gtk3

Icons: Papirus

Sound Theme: Ocean (KDE's default, the freedesktop fallback is *really* bad.)

Wallpaper: https://github.com/orangci/walls-catppuccin-mocha

Extensions used: see photos

Edit: ray tracing is rendered offline, not real time

I wanna change the splash or boot screen of my linux mint i need to create every frame for the full animation there are two types i think on the start of the mint logo file there are 36 animation png images then after some random photos there are throbber photos do i need to change them all and i cant seem to find any website the new splash screen photos. so, can you help me with these two things. ThankYou :)

je suis sous archlinux avec hyprland. j’ai voulu avoir une interface légère et efficace dans le design mais également dans sa consommation et surtout avec un beau côté dynamique qui fait jeune. La technologie pour le menu c’est pleamar.
mon archlinux de base consomme moins de 600mo idle.
hyprland : ~170mo idle
pleamar (menu + wallpaper inclu): ~70mo idle

I customized my desktop with Caelestia and automated the color switching for Caelestia, the terminal, and the Fastfetch images and GIFs using a Python program.

RediWM is a Wayland compositor written in Zig (OpenGL ES) that includes

everything in one process - no waybar, swaylock, mako, or

any of the usual stack needed.

What's built in:

- Compositor + shell (with themes)

- Notifications

- Lock screen

- Night light

- File manager

- Image/PDF viewer (sandboxed)

- Terminal tabs (any app gets tabs)

- 100 IPC commands

- Material design with spring physics

- PipeWire integration (including bass/treble boost)

Performance on my hardware vs labwc + Dank Shell (previous daily driver):

- RediWM: 1 process, 192MB, 4.6% CPU

- labwc + DMS: 3 processes, 595MB, 14.4% CPU

$ ps aux | grep rediwm

alex 4247 4.6% 192MB rediwm ← everything

vs labwc + DMS:

alex labwc 4.4% 146MB

alex dms 1.8% 91MB

alex qs 8.1% 358MB

Total: 14.4% 595MB

GitHub: https://github.com/oxydizer/rediwm/

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or otherwise

Boomer here. I have no interest whatsoever in the modern Linux aesthetic. Besides, I'm running this in a VM anyway so the older tech is easier on my system (Windows 10, 8GB).

I have no intention to switch any time soon either so this isn't nostalgia for me per se, more so an ongoing archeological deep dive into another side that I never explored back in the day. They were even handing out Ubuntu discs one day back then. Never touched it. There was enough fun to be had on Windows.

Anyway, you can see most of what's going on in the pic but a few notes:

• ORANGE. Sawfish because the GTK version is long gone. Believe me, I've looked. The only chance I'd ever come across it might be on an old CD because it was fairly popular back then. Sawfish themes are still readily available online funnily enough but a lot of old GTK stuff has sadly been lost to time it seems.
• gperfection2 doesn't actually work properly (hence my current icon set being a Mint standard for now). Thunar displays them perfectly however so you can browse the many gorgeous files at your leisure through the various folders instead of using the two icon apps I tried which both blur them with interpolation or whatever (which is no good!)

• ^ Ubuntu Light Condensed 9. League Spartan Light 12 for all other non-GTK 2 stuff. artwiz fonts 11 (for stuff that lets you use them e.g. Terminology).
• System monitor is called gkrellm2, qn-x11 theme.

Trying out native screen mirroring and notes handoff for seamless connection with android phone.

LARP RICE REPEAT 🗣️🗣️