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  • If you want to get into customizing UIs hard, something the likes of this

    You could get started with window managers (very opiniated topic, its really up to you to decide on which you should use) and UI toolkits like

    Also I know X11 is slowly dying but AwesomeWM fits your bill really nicely.

    TL,DR: You want a cool UI? look at unixporn’s top posts of all time, research an option you find good enough and go bananas on everything you need to make yourself at home.

    ALSO consider posting at !unixporn@lemmy.ml so we can marvel at your fine grained setup, good luck!




  • I really thought that the effort of Fedora integrating flatpaks with their atomic spins meant that flatpak development was anything but lacking. I wonder if Redhat’s budget falls too short to take a look at those PRs? Specially for the replacement of pulseaudio, giving mic permissions because you allowed audio to go through your speakers really shouldn’t be a thing. Great summary either way














  • When an app supports linux, it can do so by either:

    • packaging it for popular distro repositories,
    • giving instructions on how to build the app from the source code

    or

    • package it on distro-agnostic, package management solutions like flatpak or appImage.

    These last ones are sandboxed environments. That means they have their own dependencies isolated from your system, so they dont have to deal with every distros pecularities at the cost of using more storage space. This is very useful for developers and in your case benefitial for the user because you can have both steam and zoom via flatpak on mint, arch or any obscure distro that has flatpak available, without any major problems.

    Edit: Formatting