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      “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

      ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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        I do love removing features from things lol :3… like my browser which I disabled the top bar and tabs on

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        Absolutely do not checkout “conky” and under no circumstances search for “conky themes” in image search. A program for the utterly deranged

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        For me it was “what else don’t I need on here?” from the start tbh :3 though I very much did not like the workflow of windows, so being able to nuke all the features that were similar that I found useless was like a sigh of relief since it was like getting rid of annoying clutter in a hoarder’s house lol

        Now I basically only have my panel/bar thing on the left of the main display with the time, app tray (cause some apps need it to shut down and stuff lol), wifi, settings/power off, kde connect, and the blue light filter… though tbh im considering getting rid of the settings icon from there too

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      Herbstluftwm or bspwm or i3.

      Remove all the things.

      I’m so close to removing X and using only a console, except

      • Jami has no terminal app
      • Inkscape
      • Gimp
      • No terminal web browser works for every site I need to visit
      • The Factory Must Grow

      Edit in which Sxan discovers þat double-vertical-bars in piefed comments turns inline text into “spoiler” text. Fixed.

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        Yeah there’s just too much graphical stuff I need for me to go full CLI lol… plus for a lot of stuff I prefer being able to just click a button and have it done rather than typing in a full command :3

        TWMs are fun tho :3… I’ve tried a bunch including both i3 and bspwm lol

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      One day, after years of chipping away small, useless details, your interface will finally be a blank screen. Flawless.

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        Almost there already tbh :3… if I didn’t need a clock or notifications, then I may have gone to just having my whole desktop be the wallpaper and nothing else lol

        Now if only I could disable all the UI I don’t like in all the apps I need too lol

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      well, isn’t that a sign that you have installed too much in the first place? :D

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        Ikr? Desktop enviroment bloat :3

        I am currently in the midst of messing around with hyprland for peak minimalism, but honestly I prefer having a full DE, messing around with config files is kinda frustrating when I want to just do 1 little thing… and oftentimes it’s also hard to get the configs exactly how I want (probably gonna go to COSMIC when it comes out :3… I tried the alpha and it’s the best tiling experience out there imo, plus it has decent customization in terms of removing all the little icons I don’t need for the most part :3… though I’d like to be able to remove the window close button too since we already can do minimize/maximize :3… and preferably remove the whole window top bar)

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          Hyprland is not very “minimalistic”. If you’re looking for a tiling Wayland compositor that’s minimal, I can’t recommend River enough. I’m aware that the suckless people have also tried making their own Wayland compositors but I’ve never tried them. River isn’t suckless but it is still very lightweight and doesn’t have all the flashy features Hyprland does.

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            Eh I tried a bunch of TWMs already, and I like hyprland :p. I know there are more minimal things like ratpoison or whatever if I wanted that, but for the GUI I want hyprland does what I want fine enough

            Also the entire thing for me is basically temporary anyway, so it’s whatevs