>archinstall cause Im stupid
>try out every single desktop environment from top to bottom
>they all suck
>kde lag shitposter was right
>some cant access drives bc permissions or something
>too stupid to understand how tiling windows work
>most are ugly as sin
>some literally dont even work
>get to the last entry in the list
>xfce
>zero lag
>beautiful ootb
>it just works
Holy shit bros. Who would have thought. This little fricking mouse. Im finally home
Welcome, ratchad
>tearing
Use picom.
Tearing can be solved by editing your GPU config file to inhibit it.
Xorg modesetting doesn't support TearFree (yet)
>tinker troony
>why is my tinker troony distro a mess
I dont want to tinker, thats my whole point. If the DE doesnt look nice and function straight up I will move onto the next. I like this one and itll stay stock
Nope, actually the vms I messed around in testing a couple months back I had less issues. Thats what made me say frick it Ill go linux in the first place. It ran great, no lag and wifi ran out of the box on everything I tried. Thats the only problem I am having. Right now I am running ethernet and have to go looking for broadcom firmware and learning how to install it. Im figuring it out though. I have no idea how it worked in the vm
>I dont want to tinker
Lmao, the super key doesn't even open the whisker menu by default in XFCE (unless whatever distro you install configured that in advance for you)
>I dont want to tinker
well maybe dont install arch then? u should honestly try mint
>i have no idea how it worked
Simple, vms don't have access to the hardware they only take the internet as if they were any other application, that's why everything worked ootb, in real life most computers have shit ass firmware designed to only work on windows with the maker's apps, for example all 2023 asus laptops come with the audio firmware without the proper device ids or something, and they're only meant to work with the asus audio application, so the maker of the chip had to come and send a kernel patch to fix this because asus refused to make a proper firmware.
Cool blogpost.
>kde lag shitposter was right
Let me guess, you tried it in a VM?
let me guess, all gays crying about broken KDE on reddit use it in vm
Also, software written by straight white people runs in VM with no problem
>software written by straight white people
Kid, that never existed in the first place.
>Drag window
>Multiple frames between cursor and headerbar
Nice DE, rat vermin.
>compositor
Black person homosexual
works fine on my xfce
Debian minimal with X or xubuntu is patrician mega chad cool rad rat tier and your opinion is automatically discarded if you disagree
>xubuntu
Mint XFCE edition is better
>kde lag poster was right
use Wayland and you will see.
>x11 sucks
>wayland shits itself if you have an nvidia gpu
uhh... meanwhile my gnome just works?
picom 0 lag? get real. also wtf does mounting drives have to do with a wm manager, and how can most tiling wm be ugly when basically everything is customizable. maybe dont rely on a moronic install script and your drives will mount properly
xfce doesn't use picom by default, xfwm4 has its own built-in compositor. you're better off disabling it though, X11 compositors don't play well with games and deactivating your compositor has the advantage of making mixed refresh rate monitors work as they should
Xfce just werks. I can't imagine using a bloated piece of shit like kde or gnome in 2024
>most are ugly as sin
>xfce
>beautiful ootb
yeah, that give it away as a shitpost. Xfce is objectively the ugliest looking dogturd by default out of all of them.
You wish.
xfce master race reporting in
how's that theme called?
sar
the only reason I can tolerate Linux for 15 years
Also what's with the ugly 3 color Macshit buttons? Default on artix?
>Default on artix
no, Artix uses the default theme just like Arch. that's the theme I'm using, flat-remix-gtk
The only things that should be flat are girls' chests, UI flat "design" is crime.
what font is that?
terminus-font-td1 from the AUR. there's terminus-font in the official repos if you don't use the AUR but the -td1 version has a centered tilde which I prefer for my terminal
literally the only usable DE on linux-libre with privacy blocks. KDE & Gnome use geoclue as dependency. No frickin clue why.
what about lxde? I want to try that one because it resembles to windows 7
It's very outdated, but still useful for old computers. I installed debian lxde on some 20 years old netbook (1GHz, 4GB ram) for my old mum to play solitaire and search cooking recipes on internet and it works better than expected.
>It's very outdated
this may be true, but some distros still have it in their official repos. Arch/Artix do at least (Artix even has an official live iso with lxde)
XFCE is literally the miracle DE. lxde is a close second but I like XFCE's customization options.
XFCE is my latest favorite DE as well. It's a shame KDE and GNOME are so popular. KDE is glitchy. GNOME is stable, but it's restrictive. FVWM has a high learning curve. Cinnamon is bland or maybe I haven't seen someone breathe soul into it yet.
>It's a shame KDE and GNOME are so popular
xfce is the 3rd most popular iirc
I suggest tryin lxde as well. It's minimal, but it gets the job done
XFCE is fricking weird in that it has an oddly high amount of RAM usage for what it is, and the devs even acknowledged that the point was to minimize CPU usage, not RAM usage
ram usage is mostly gtk3's fault. if you install the last gtk2 version (xfce 4.12) it should be a lot better
still, 850MB at idle on a 64GB machine isn't half bad I'd say
550-600MB for me after boot, but with compositor disabled, KDE double that. Also, btop reports much higher values than htop for some reason.
Anyway, xfce is the best thing ever.
>550-600MB for me after boot, but with compositor disabled
my compositor is also disabled
but keep in mind that I'm using it with 3 monitors, and thus have 3 panels with a few genmons, etc. with the defaults it was taking maybe 450-500 tops, iirc? now around 850, and around 750 on my laptop I believe
>The only things that should be flat are girls' chests
why yes, I'm also a fellow flat chest enthusiast, how could you tell?
>UI flat "design" is crime.
idk anon, I like flatshit personally. I loved material design when Android e-girl-pop released and that stuck with me
>idk anon, I like flatshit personally
I find it to be abomination and hard to use since things don't pop and everything looks the same. For me ubuntu 10.04 was peak, after 10-15y that style may return since those things are cyclic.
>after 10-15y that style may return
I wouldn't be so sure anon... the next thing is likely picrel and we can both hate on it together, I assure you. that is an actual crime
damn, and I thought that it can't get worse so they will have to cycle through some of the old designs.They really want to double down on diversity hires.
I will miss flat shit.
is not that just border-shadow and border radius? lmao
friendly reminder that if you like arch and xfce you should try archcraft
I make my own ISOs, don't need some moron fricking up the perfection that default xfce is.
xfce just works, simple and functional, that's all you need, everything else is eyecandy
>too stupid for tiling wms
Sister, just read the docs for 10 minutes.
Hyprland cured my DE hopping
unbonkable
only time archinstall didn't work for me was in some scuffed as frick pc (actually a cheapass tablet put in a laptop chassis), kde is a pain to update in big updates though, that shit breaks