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DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released
- actionfromafar 3mo agoWhat is a DMS?
- neogodless 3mo agoFrom the link: > DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5 From the home page: > Dank Linux: Modern Desktop Seems like an overall UI (user interface) framework for Linux Desktop. Visit https://danklinux.com/ https://danklinux.com/ to learn more.
- stonogo 3mo agoa vibe-coded "shell", which is a term that has evolved to describe a suite of software that does all the desktop-environment stuff that you don't get when you use an X11 window manager or Wayland compositor that isn't part of a bigger desktop ecosystem.
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- zamalek 3mo agoIn Linux you generally have two types of desktops: DEs, which are full featured (KDE, GNOME, Cosmic, Cinnamon, etc.), and window managers. Window managers do only what they say on the tin, if you used one with genuinely no config (they usually have minor defaults to prevent this) you would be completely soft-locked: an empty desktop just a cursor to play with, no way to launch apps, nothing. They have a special layer into which apps can spawn windows that typically do things like adding a launcher, or an app switcher, notifications, or whatever else you want. It's the unix philosophy brought to the UI domain. Usually you have a separate app for each, but DMS brings in a full suite: allowing you to use the window manager without having to spend hours ricing your system.
- arrakeen 3mo agodespite how cringe everything about this is, i'll support anything that gets young people using linux
- arikrahman 3mo agoI agree, I switched to noctalia so I get all the performance benefits without the baggage of telling people I use Dank
- farresito 3mo agoNoctalia will soon release v5, which is a complete rewrite in C++, which makes it even more appealing if you care about the performance.
- arikrahman 3mo agoYes, I'm on the beta of v5 and it works flawlessly
- mmgutz 3mo agoDMS | super heavyweight | sluggish | lots of eye candy, GUI configurable Noctalia | welterweight | fast | professional look, GUI configurable Waybar | lightweight | fast | minimal, DIY theming, hand configured swaybar | flyweight | blazingly fast | ultra minimalist, hand configured Noctalia uses about 70MB more RAM, and a little more CPU than Waybar. No brainer.
- arikrahman 3mo agoWith v5 I wouldn't be surprised if they can even slim it down more than waybar. No dependency to worry about unlike waybar with gtk core.
- mmgutz 3mo agoIf 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 the ballpark of a waybar-based setup.
- preisschild 3mo agoI've been trying Zirconium[1] (a fedora atomic-based bootable container image with niri+dms) since a few weeks ago, works really well. Can recommend. [1]: github.com/zirconium-dev/zirconium
- arikrahman 3mo agoWhat's the benefit to using this over Nix flakes
- stonogo 3mo agonot having to learn what Nix flakes are is a pretty big plus
- arikrahman 3mo agoThat sounds like a pretty big minus. Not hard to learn with LLMs doing everything. Pretty easy to replicate dotfiles with flakes that's why most of them use it. Since you claim it's a benefit, but I've already learned it, no point to using this. Seems like a worse docker.
- antihero 3mo agoThe margins/padding on stuff and the sizing is very haphazard.
- dangrover 3mo agoI've been really enjoying using DMS as a daily driver. I had been partial to Cosmic DE, but the overall visual appearance, pace of development, and ecosystem around DMS made me switch.
- dgunay 3mo agoDMS is a pretty good gateway drug out of major DEs and into WMs like Niri. I had already started using Niri but the base DMS configuration has a lot more batteries included so I switched and so far haven't had any major complaints.