I’ve been using linux for about 6 months now and recently been using arch as my main. I’ve done some customzations like changing fonts, background, keybinds, etc. But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps, cool animations.

Are there any links, videos, post or anything that is beginner friendly of ricing Linux?

Edit: I use Gnome for now

  • yianiris@kafeneio.social
    212·
    10 months ago

    I never use one, useless fluff/hype, I use a wm.

    Near double the size and resources for having a dock/bar/menu and pinning icons on the background … too much clutter for things hiding behind whatever you are doing most of the time.

    A desktop is something you use to impress someone using mac/msWin …

    @Fizz @Therealmglitch

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      10 months ago

      Your reasoning is understandable if itching out every mb of RAM space is a high priority, but fortunately hardware has improved well enough to use more bloated systems (not windows levels) for easier daily use.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      3·
      10 months ago

      Desktop resources are not above 1% of my system use. Wm is annoying because I’d have to use the keyboard for everything.

    • Radioactive Radio
      3·
      10 months ago

      You know I’ve heard a lot of people say that. And i tested it with bspwm, sure I was saving some ram but when you add all the applets, compositor, bar and notification daemons and all the configs it adds up to the same amount of ram being used as sometching like KDE. I didn’t notice a lot of difference other that more time being spent on configuring the wm than using it. It was fun tho.

      • yianiris@kafeneio.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        @radioactiveradio
        Openbox beats them all in my ratio between utility/resources, then comes jwm. For lighter fun factor vtwm as as minimal as I’d like to go.
        AwesomeWM seems to be very popular.
        Tiling wm is a whole different game (jwm is both), for people who can see well enough to work on 4-6 windows side by side. Maybe writers/translators who like to work on 2-3 documents side by side can see this working for them.

        • yianiris@kafeneio.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          The difference is not ultimately the absolute size of the process running as wm but the requirements from the system to support things. Primarily dbus/logind/seatd root/user layers are optional on most WMs on most distros.

          With a DE it is almost a locked dependency to have those. I like to work without “spyware” in which most linuxers disagree and trust large corporations blindly. The same people who say telemetry is something we need, it is a “feature”.

          @radioactiveradio