idk what's happening here (i've never used linux really) but i'm practically drooling over the matchy-matchy aesthetic
Basically, they're using a custom auto-tiling desktop called Hyprland. When you install it, all you get is a wallpaper and a terminal app. Hyprland is mostly known for having fancy and customizable (if you know what you're doing) animations, so it looks even prettier in motion.
nice! i've been toying with the idea of dual booting for a while so i'm thinking i'll make it a weekend project. yes, i'm doing this primarily for the aesthetic lol
If you wanna use hyprland though, and you've never used Linux before, that's gonna take more than a weekend. If you want a highly customizable desktop that you can still do over the weekend I'd highly recommend starting with KDE Plasma, and going with Fedora as a distro if you don't want to have too much grief with the install (though if you want an easy to install version of Arch, which will probably include some terminal usage for installing apps, starting services etc, EndeavourOS is pretty great as well).
Both of these distros let you do dual booting pretty easily as well AFAIK
yeah, luckily my partner is a bit of a linux buff so they can help me. they advised against arch which i'm going to take their advice on, so i'll explore other versions (distros?) before i commit.
Damn, that's beautiful.
As an aside, a joke: How do you know if someone uses Arch? They'll tell you.
thanks, this is a terminal app called spotify-tui, but to be honest, i prefer using the spotify app
distros themselves don't look like anything, it's the desktop environment / window manager that you see, this is a wm called hyprland and you use mostly .conf files to change the look, but some things like the bar at the top (waybar) use css
That's really cool, but doesn't sound super beginner friendly. Maybe someday I'll spend some time to learn Linux. Thanks!
this is a distro called arch and its really complicated tbh, but you can totally get a "just works" distro like pop_os or nobara and it'll be really easy :)
The goal of using a window manager is basically making your own custom desktop. The majority of apps are configured through text files. If you want to try Linux, you can pick a beginner friendly distro like Fedora which will give you a desktop environment. These are desktops with the batteries included and are fully customised through GUI settings menus.
Fedora KDE is a great option if you want to try making a very custom looking system without having to worry about installing a ton of different tools and editing config files.
Just so you know, OP took basically one of the most complicated routes, learning all this stuff is entirely optional when it comes to learning Linux
once a few years ago
average Wayland hater tbh
It's gotten a lot better. It's not perfect, especially on nvidia cards, though those have also gotten a lot better and for many people are pretty usable on Wayland. At this point if you don't work with video, Wayland is pretty good.
