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Ehen I sat down to make this video. I wanted to build the most amazingly beautiful linux configuration for you all. Where all the colors matched perfectly, everything looked cohesive. And I did! check it out! this is a gorgeous hyprland config with really nice colors, etcβ¦ But what you donβt see, is the struggle it took to make this configuration happen. So today I want to talk about the horrible world of ricing your linux distro.
But tiling window managers come at a cost. You see, tiling window mangers are just that, window managers. When you install a window manager like i3 or hyprland (which is what Iβm using here). You get almost no extra tools whatsoever on top of the tiling window experience. You donβt typically get an application launcher, or a terminal, or literally any nice-to-have tool really. think of things you would NEED like a lockscreen, system idling, all of that stuff.
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Wayland and GUIs in general are full of churn. Pretty much everything there is ephemeral and you have to re-learn and re-fix the same things every few years. So I've moved more and more to command line solutions, since those mostly are just one-and-done, freeing me to focus on moving forward instead of constantly fixing old stuff over and over. I won't be switching to Wayland until it provides the features I rely on daily, like network transparency, or until I simply have no choice.
Switch to NixOS, setup your config once and never again. Just switched over myself.
Ricing is for people who can't write code and don't have the hardware to game.
Reserve a full day for creating your config and go through the documentation.
I've been ricing Hyprland with for the past few weeks and felt this video, there are a few scrpt installs that are really solid if you or anyone else wants to get a more out of the box feel in a slick hyprland environment, check out ML4W's script install, great standalone or base to get a stable hyprland session, cheeers!
its hilarious to watch you try to pronounce "catppuccin"
how does your terminal look like that? i tried to do that myself but i could only change the color of the text and couldn't put it in a bubble like yours
life is so much easier if you just use macos. Speaking as a guy who went down the whole linux / i3/ arch rabbit hole…
This "struggle" is one of the reasons why I chose for dwm instead of a windowmanager like Hyprland, dwm just comes with a panel and systemtray (if you do that patch, which you can do automatically) and that makes it incredibly easy. The other reason why I chose for dwm, I love the so-called tag feature, it means that you can combine multiple workspaces: either showing them or putting a program on them. For example, you can easily have a program visible on 2 workspaces and combine that program with 2 different programs, 1 for one workspace and the other for the other. That way you can very easily switch which programs are visible by just pressing one keycombination. That can be a great productivity booster, for example when you need the following 3 applications open: PDF-reader, browser, editor.
In Linux,
You can customize everything β
You have to customize everything β
Nwg-look helped a lot in my theming… hyprland is not perfect but it's very close. I plan to check out "miracle" when fedora 41 is released.
I already configured 5 wm now I am switched to bspwm going to stay with it for next 5 years π π π
Link to the wallpaper?
So you can break down this video to: WMs are a lot of work, as everyone already knows who possibly could follow this video.
Hence apart from this taking 10 sec to state and not 13 min, in which nothing happens, it is not even worth mentioning – to this audience.
Video Summary: Find a problem. Sell the solution. #shamelessPlug
that's why I use hyprdots xD
bs premise for a bs video
Ok… Here is question for you all: You spend hours seting up your distro just the way you like it, why don't you use tools that can make custom iso image out of your installation with everything already setup how you like it? Debian based, ubuntu and derivatives, opensuse and arch all have tools avaliable to do so. You can make custom iso of Fedora too but it's difficult. I don't know about nix because i never used it before. If your distro has tools to make custom iso out of your install with literary everything set up why aren't you using it? I have to replace distro i am using and i am gonna make custom iso out of my installation once i set everything up how i like it because in worst case scenario i don't want to spend hourd seting things up same way again.
catppuccin/gtk has been upstreamed into Colloid now.
Thank you for existing, macOS π
I did quite an amount of customisation previously and now I stick with Fedora with Gnome without even changing the default wallpaper. And.. I still love it.
NGL, as much as I enjoyed my time Ricing with nix, it would be nice to be able to get a nice tiling window manager interface without having to spend hours setting up the system.
I left nix and hyprland for arch and gnome just because there were so many weird issues that I did not have time to work around. I'm rather sad about this because nether gnome nor kde seem to have good implementations of hyprland style tiling.
Hoping cosmic fills this niche when it comes out of alpha.
"Built the most amazingly beautiful" – that was a failure.
Garuda Linux has a ready to use distribution with the sway WM and a cohesive gorgeous theme
Too bad it isn't VM friendly
4:33 vim diesel
Ubuntu and any other "out-of-the-box" distro a pre-riced π someone gotta do the styling and tweaking work
what is Ricing?
Bro wat is that hoodie?
Seeing such configuration is always awe inspiring. I kind of want to try the Hyprland but knowing how much work it needs to satisfy my needs so far always turned me off. Someday I will grow up to do this ;). For now, moving from Screen to Tmux will suffice
Thanks for the ricing intro. Btw, nice mustache, man.
I didn't like the catppuccin gtk theme so I made my own customised version using WhiteSur Dark (by VinceLiuice) as a base. I have the base and text colour changed to catppuccin and modified the accent colour to something more vibrant like Purplish (HEX: #b4befe) and it is looking great.
Ask me if you need the GTK4 and shell config files (gtk3 app theme is fairly consistent but is WIP).
I would be happy with sway but it always clashes with KDE and its hard to keep multiple DEs for some reason