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If you consider the extras built into noctalia: notifications, screen lock (i think), wallpaper daemon .... daemons you have to install/configure piecemeal, noctalia is already in …

DMS | super heavyweight | sluggish | lots of eye candy, GUI configurable Noctalia | welterweight | fast | professional look, GUI configurable Waybar | lightweight | fast | minimal,…

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[foot]( https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot ) is an excellent st alternative on wayland.

I'm on wayland. Kitty can be used as a layershell window. So you can build panels, taskbars, etc if you were so inclined. For example, you want fastfetch or htop as a live desktop …

To be fair, "more consistent" if you only use KDE apps. Once you start adding other Linux apps, you end up with a motley crue of GTK 3, GTK 4, QT 5, QT 6, Electron apps with some d…

As someone who spends most of his time in nvim and TUIs (yazi, lazydocker, termusic, tmux in ssh ...), Niri is as keyboard centric as you want. Mine is configured to use vim keys.

Can confirm 8-9w idle for my N100 homelab server having 1 NVMe SSD, 1 SATA SSD, 16GB RAM.

That's on NixOS, but on other distros there are issues. When I tried nix last year, installing alacritty, for example, required an opengl wrapper. Neovim couldn't compile plugins w…

In the shorts, you wake up as some famous person in history: Cleopatra, Caesar ... It's a first person POV of their life and surroundings. They're AI vids.

This looks like those youtube shorts I've been seeing. Did you guys create those?

Tilers can remove Gnome's overly whitespaced decorations, probably saving 10% in screen pixels alone. If you want to maximize all windows on run, niri can do that with a rule. It t…

Niri doesn't use 400MB by itself, that's the entire memory footprint of everything running. In comparison, OpenBox with all the utilities needed for wallet, ssh agent etc is in the…

Gnome is starting on a built-in mosaic layout tiler that looks on the surface similar to newm. newm is sadly no longer actively enhanced. Cosmic Desktop (creators of pop-shell) is …

Niri is RAM efficient. I run Niri in an 8GB VM on Intel Macbook, and on a $99 8GB mini PC. Total RAM usage on boot is less than 400MB with waybar, polkit, ssh-agent, mako ... That'…

Nothing beats Delphi for GUIs. Unfortunately, there were more VB4/VB5 jobs and I had to switch :( Borland was in trouble long before Kylix and .NET. They wanted to be everything: e…

So, this is similar to .NET's Blazor. The same issues apply. Startup should be faster for Go's smaller runtime.

There's also [devbox]( https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox ). Tried a lot of them, and after a while I found the nix the package manager on non NixOS requires too many workarounds…

ASP is an odd name to an old hat like me. Active Server Pages haven't been a thing in a while.

What perfect timing, I started going down the GJS (Javascript) route for a custom app. Maybe it's time to build a Go + templ like package w/ GTK4 widgets.

Wasn't understanding the graphics in the README until I used light mode.

I'd say the big shift for companies was Windows 3.1 for Workgroups which displaced Novell Netware. And for the masses, Windows 95 was the "start".

Awesome WM has nested GTK widgets similar to what you describe, a testament to the flexibility of Lua's uber table.

FoxPro for me :)

Another plus is Ventoy can install Windows 11 without secure boot, TPM from an official MS ISO. Some Linux distros cannot install with those features enabled.