Picom, my configs are on my Github

I suggest sticking to your current desktop environment for a while to become more familiar with a Linux environment before exploring standalone window managers. They require more effort and configuration to customize, which can be challenging for newcomers to Linux. However, if you’re still interested, you can find my dotfiles for this on my GitHub. I also found this helpful article and YouTube playlist on installing and configuring BSPWM. Feel free to reach out to me via private message if you decide to try BSPWM or have any questions; I can share my Discord with you.

the original is here but i rounded the corners in Gimp to match the corners of my windows and polybar and that version is here

Basically just pick a distro and use it for 6 months without hopping

Wallpaper

• Cinnamon Theme
• GTK Theme
• Icon Theme
• Cursor Theme

I’ve tried basically every mainstream-ish distro there is, I just want some outside opinions because I’m bad at picking stuff and I want to stick with something for a while

Also Linux Mint is quite boring imo

I have switched to brave for everything now and I really don’t wanna go through the hassle of trying to convert package formats

It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers

I’ve tried the app image and it didn’t work, I looked it up and the consensus is appimages won’t run because of musl libc instead of glibc

I’ve tried installing thorium but I can’t get it to compile correctly and I don’t wanna sit there forever trying to get it working so I just gave up and installed chrome

i think it is lighter than Mint (Xfce) but i havent used Mint (Xfce) so i dont know how much lighter it is exactly, but it uses musl libc which has a much lighter and cleaner code base than glibc and it uses busybox coreutils instead of GNU coreutils and they are again much lighter it is also using OpenRC instead of SystemD for its init system

Wallpaper https://whvn.cc/6dlpr7

Un*x is just another way of saying Unix-like, sometimes its refereed to as *nix

this Wikipedia page talks about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

yea

Linux is technically not Unix

https://wallhaven.cc/w/6dlpr7

After you install and get to your Xfce desktop just follow these steps

I would give it another look if you can. The wiki is very detailed and it is quite simple to install a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome if you just follow the steps.

I recently switched to Alpine and after seeing how amazing it is I feel like it deserves more recognition in the Desktop Linux space

I mainly chose Alpine because of my horrible hardware, I only have 4gb of ram and a Haswell Celeron so I wanted something really light while still being usable. As for what I was using before it was Debian but I have jumped around a lot, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, FreeBSD, etc.

very true it is the icing on top of every UN*X rice :)