Arch Linux 2024

[Zema Bus]

I've had CatchyOS installed on my main machine for two months now, and I've found that I'm spending more time in it than in vanilla Arch. I only have MATE and Cosmic DE's installed (mostly using MATE at this time). I like Plasma, which is what I have in vanilla Arch, but I also like the simplicity of these smaller DE's while still looking good, and while still having full functionality. And not a single crash in MATE, which is a lot more than I can say about Plasma.

[Grogan]

You know I agree. Simplicity is what I like. I even use XFCE more like a window manager than a DE, I don't build the shit I don't like (e.g. Thunar... that bites the weenie) or its atrocious power manager.

Plasma is more of a "demo" to me than something I'd use for doing work or playing games. "Oooh, look how nice".

Have you been playing games in CachyOS?

[Zema Bus]

Not yet but I plan to install it on my game machine soon. I could also get Steam etc going here on my main machine though my game machine has a stronger video card.

[Zema Bus]

I booted into MATE in Arch (vanilla Arch originally with just Plasma) and configured MATE

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[Grogan]

That's a super nice wallpaper.

Does that clock overlay on your desktop like that all the time? It also looks good (nice font).

[Zema Bus]

It does, as long as Variety is running, I have it set to start with my session.

Here's what the clock settings look like:

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And here's that wallpaper (it came from unsplash.com

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[Grogan]

Thanks, I saved the wallpaper. So that Variety thing is a wallpaper switcher/configuration overlay.

It was hard to find with a name like that

https://github.com/varietywalls/variety

I could have this, but it does look a bit needy for my tastes

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Runtime Requirements

    GTK+ 3
    gexiv2
    libnotify
    Python 3 libraries:
        BeautifulSoup4
        lxml
        Pycairo
        PyGObject, built with Cairo integration
        ConfigObj
        Pillow
        packaging
        Requests
        Optional: httplib2 (for more quotes sources)
    Optional: imagemagick (for wallpaper filters)
    Optional: feh or nitrogen: used by default to set wallpapers on i3, openbox, and other WMs
    Optional: libayatana-appindicator (for AppIndicator support)
    Optional: for tray icon support on GNOME, the GNOME AppIndicator extension
    Optional: libavif-gdk-pixbuf (for avif format support)

[Zema Bus]

I bet you got a variety of results lol! Yeah it can pull from different remote sources, local sources, and/or both.