Looks very nice! Only recommendation: don’t use Brave
Agreed, Helium is the better Chromiun browser anyway. I use Firedragon myself.
Waterfox and Floorp here!
Looks clean. Digging the Firewatch wallpaper
Thanks.
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Don’t know. Only see the DE.
Oh come on don’t be an arse 😀
But he’s right
He is not wrong, but in human communication we also use something called context. Its clear he’s showing his desktop no need to delve into semantics.
Come on, we are nerds here. Do you really expect us to not be correct to the point of being boring?
Depends how he meant it. It felt unfriendly but maybe not. I miss a lots of stuff when there are no emojis to express the tone 🤔 Anyway if it was meant as a friendly note I appologize.
What that needs is a smoke animation that starts as soon as your core temps get too high.
looks pretty cool
app bar on side suits the look well
wallpaper looks cool (i personally wouldnt use something so contrasting)
why brave browser tho
ultramonetized homophobic cryptobro vpn ad browser that injects affiliate links
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qzkAd (archive of https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/)
I use Brave because it doesn’t force me to create an account to sync my bookmarks. Ironically, Firefox isn’t a saint either; I used to use it, but then this happened.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/
Plus, Firefox doesn’t support WebUSB.
use librewolf or waterfox
Why aren’t you using Floccus 😡
I’m a simple man. I see Debian, I upvote.
Is that Xfce?
🙂No this is this Cinnamon Desktop but I have used XFCE before very good.
Cinnamon on Debian? Most excellent.
no it seems to be kde plasma
it’s cinnamon, linux mint’s gnome fork
looks similar to kde tho (because u can make kde look like pretty much anything)
the mountain logo in top left is the cinnamon logo
Somehow this image reminds me of Gravity Falls. I miss the show.
Doesn’t matter! What do you think?
Spooky wallpaper, though!
I think that might be for the game fire watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewatch
Horizontal distance > vertical.
Yep, but at the same time free horizontal space > free vertical.
Depends on how many apps you use in your workflow at once.
I certainly got to enjoy the vertical bar. Feels more natural to me, like bookmarks.
the panel on the side. it just makes sense–if you can get ‘used to’ it.
screens are wider than they are tall, but most content viewed by or worked on by most people goes vertical: web sites and text documents. hell, even most pictures and video people take these days, too, because they still don’t know enough to rotate their damn phones.
To me, it came naturally at some point. I just tried it for the lulz - and ended up staying.
I’m gonna hard disagree with you. No malice.
It’s just that I’m used to a wharf or start menu™. Personally, these are always on the corners. Usually the bottom left or top right (my preference.)
you can have your ‘start button’ in the bottom left if you want, and still have the panel going up the left edge instead of along the bottom.
And it’s alright! Luckily, both Cinnamon (like here) and KDE (what I’m using) provide you with such option by default.
Why not both?
Top or bottom task bars make the most sense, imo.
did you ever see unity on ubunut? reminds me of that, but w a better color palette.
That still exists BTW. It’s called Lomiri now.
Seriously? Last I heard unity had no maintainers except one teenager. Is lomiri decently supported? Run well on Ubuntu or other distros?
I was thinking of looking into cinnamon because of this. But maybe I should check lomiri…
There’s no linuxporn / usabilityporn community?
The name is awful. I’d rather see the posts here if that’s the name of the community
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Yeah there is: https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn
This. Mods, can we please ban posts like this here?
What? Why?
Right? I love seeing how people rice their DE. However, I would also love a community dedicated to it. We could post some tips or tricks to accomplish certain looks.
I love seeing that stuff too! I tried it a long time ago on Windows with Rainmeter. Got one looking like Persona theming and another with Calvin and Hobbes. May try to get back into it now that I’m on Linux.
Because we’re here to read. Links to articles.
If you just want to post photos, do that shit on pixifed.
Don’t lower the quality of Lemmy with low effort posts.
Because we’re here to read. Links to articles.
Are we? Maybe you are.
Ah yes, exactly what Lemmy needs at this point: fewer posts and fractured communities, that’ll certainly help make the platform better in its infancy.
90% servers (of users there) is also not what we want, right?
Fewer low effort posts and more qualify always helps platforms
Ever heard of enshitification? The last thing we need is shitty memes and misinformation posts that harm users just for the sake of increased engagement
Yes, I’d definitely rather have a fucking dead site than see pictures of people’s pretty DEs that they’re proud of, and read discussions about why people like or don’t like certain things. Just a dead void of nothing sounds so superior to that as a newer user of GUI Linux distros instead of just headless. Thanks for telling me that I’m an EnShiTTiFiEr because you only want… I don’t even know what you fuckin want, some exclusive club with a post a day about what? Go make your own shitty specific club then and only let people in who post… whatever garbage you wanna see instead and see how long that lasts
digging the vibe.
can you share the wallpaper, please? :)
Found it by looking up dark mode Firewatch wallpapers.
Edit: Didn’t find higher resolutions of this specific one. But here are slightly different but higher resolutions variants: https://imgur.com/a/jvkoP
And the second one in this list
oh, thanks random internet stranger, have a point!
I did do a cursory search for firewatch wallpapers too, but the darkmode term seems to be the key here. Anyhoo, thanks!
edit: though, the site has it in fairly low res, all the download options are super compressed and just (badly) upscaled. But gonna look around if I can find a better version
Very nice. I love Cinnamon. I use the Eleganse theme, I’m a sucker for transparency.
Clean and comfy, very appealing to see!
Desktop looks like my desk pad
