I was scrolling on Reddit through some interesting configs for wayland/x11 window managers. While most of them are simply amazing, why so little of them are just simple? I am seriously missing some square frames in these types of configs. Most of the popular are made on wayland/hyprland, so majority of the bars and windows are just rounded. I think that it takes away some of the professional edge and may be troublesome for some software.
While the configs are surely beautiful isn’t it sacrificing functionality and screen estate for a ‘wow’ effect? I have a config written in i3wm, which is mostly stock, because I like it as it is. I was trying to switch to wayland, I have a config in riverwm (I really liked it), and I didn’t see very much configs of riverwm on unixporn as well. Is it better to just have rounded edges and spaces between the windows, or am I just not accustomed to it? If so, then what configs should I look at, maybe you have some interesting configs yourself. I want to broaden my perspective, because for now I just don’t get it
For me at least it is 100% a hobby. Sure when I’m actually working I’m either running plasma or riverwm basically stock, but it’s genuinly really fun to see how “hollywood hacker” based I can get my desktop to look. It also helps me learn more about interacting with the inner workings of linux since I like to modify things myself instead of using other peoples dots. I even made a shitty terminal application launcher using pure fish cause I wanted to see if I could, and it taught me a ton about .desktop files and binary locations and flags. That information I now use daily building my own applications
I hope you didn’t get me wrong, I think it’s an awesome hobby! I love nerd culture and I love looking at Unix porn. I am often blown away by the results and what is possible! And this part where you learn about Linux is very cool, too.