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It's a phase. I used to try and customize everything, tiling window managers, custom color schemes, Arch, etc. Right now I'm on a Mac so vanilla I didn't even c

by qsort 1y ago

It's a phase. I used to try and customize everything, tiling window managers, custom color schemes, Arch, etc. Right now I'm on a Mac so vanilla I didn't even change the wallpaper.

fb03 1y ago
Was about to mention this. 25y+ linux user here, we all had our ricing phase, where we'd customize our desktop and shell to oblivion. Now, I'm always on a as-vanilla-as-possible Ubuntu machine, or a Macbook with the same default wallpaper that came when I bought it. The only thing I do to my new systems is installing oh-my-zsh, because that gives me a lot of goodies for basically zero configuration (I just use and learned the default presets to be "my own")
- __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
  Since we're now bragging about how vanilla our systems are, the only things I install are wezterm, nushell, helix, nix. I've moved everything else into git repo's so they're no longer system configs, but project configs. Last week I took a repo full of notes about the sizes of building materials and made inkscape and gimp "dependencies" of that project. Next time I install Linux I think I'm going to make the filesystem immutable so that I not only don't configure it, but can't.
  - fb03 1y ago
    I think the next move is to not install Linux at all, completely impossible to mutate as it's not even existent? lol
deafpolygon 1y ago
i'm using the default macos wallpaper as well. i almost never see the desktop, anyways... on my sway desktop, i don't have gaps or anything -- doesn't matter to me, i'm too busy doing something.
eviks 1y ago
Or if you customize for ergonomics, the phase can last you a lifetime
shellkr 1y ago
I guess I am still in that phase then, after 25y+ of Linux. Not that I rice constantly but that I configure my desktop exactly how I like it and then let it stay. Usually the ricing/configuring comes when I buy new hardware.. so not that often. Or when a major change like Wayland comes around which is what made switch from Arch/X11/Bspwm to Arch/Wayland/Hyperland. I have tried but can not use vanilla for long... I just have to adapt the system to me. I feel constrained if I have to adapt to the system.
theshrike79 1y ago
The only major non-vanilla thing I had was Rectangle, couldn't live without it. Now I've replaced it with a Hammerspoon script with some additions like setting my window layout based on where I am. It's so much easier when you don't need to customise everything to the nines. (I SO MUCH want to like and use Nix, but every time I've tried I've failed :D)

by qsort 1y ago

It's a phase. I used to try and customize everything, tiling window managers, custom color schemes, Arch, etc. Right now I'm on a Mac so vanilla I didn't even change the wallpaper.

fb03 1y ago

Was about to mention this. 25y+ linux user here, we all had our ricing phase, where we'd customize our desktop and shell to oblivion. Now, I'm always on a as-vanilla-as-possible Ubuntu machine, or a Macbook with the same default wallpaper that came when I bought it. The only thing I do to my new systems is installing oh-my-zsh, because that gives me a lot of goodies for basically zero configuration (I just use and learned the default presets to be "my own")

__MatrixMan__ 1y ago
Since we're now bragging about how vanilla our systems are, the only things I install are wezterm, nushell, helix, nix. I've moved everything else into git repo's so they're no longer system configs, but project configs. Last week I took a repo full of notes about the sizes of building materials and made inkscape and gimp "dependencies" of that project. Next time I install Linux I think I'm going to make the filesystem immutable so that I not only don't configure it, but can't.
- fb03 1y ago
  I think the next move is to not install Linux at all, completely impossible to mutate as it's not even existent? lol

deafpolygon 1y ago

i'm using the default macos wallpaper as well. i almost never see the desktop, anyways... on my sway desktop, i don't have gaps or anything -- doesn't matter to me, i'm too busy doing something.

eviks 1y ago

Or if you customize for ergonomics, the phase can last you a lifetime

shellkr 1y ago

I guess I am still in that phase then, after 25y+ of Linux. Not that I rice constantly but that I configure my desktop exactly how I like it and then let it stay. Usually the ricing/configuring comes when I buy new hardware.. so not that often. Or when a major change like Wayland comes around which is what made switch from Arch/X11/Bspwm to Arch/Wayland/Hyperland. I have tried but can not use vanilla for long... I just have to adapt the system to me. I feel constrained if I have to adapt to the system.

theshrike79 1y ago

The only major non-vanilla thing I had was Rectangle, couldn't live without it. Now I've replaced it with a Hammerspoon script with some additions like setting my window layout based on where I am. It's so much easier when you don't need to customise everything to the nines. (I SO MUCH want to like and use Nix, but every time I've tried I've failed :D)