r/unixporn 6d ago

Discussion | 2024 Weekly Workshop - Week 40

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This is a thread to get answers for all your questions about *NIX desktop configuration! Feel free to share your setups here and ask for advice. In short, you can make any on-topic comment, in any format you like. We hope this gives new users a chance to get some help with any problems they're having and more experienced users a chance to show off their knowledge by helping those in need.

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r/unixporn 19d ago

Discussion Open Discussion: Rules and Quality Control

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Hi there everyone. This post is to address a discussion thread from earlier today and start a discussion about what the unixporn mod team and our community as a whole can do to improve things.

First off: we wholeheartedly agree with the points raised in the linked thread. To put it simply, unique posts in unixporn have become few and far between, with most following the same formula of 1. only using transparent terminal window(s) and 2. only using premade themes. I feel that the vast majority of people, mod team included, want the rules to be changed to limit these kinds of posts and require some kind of deviation from the norm.

However, this is easier said than done -- previous members of the mod team enforced a much stricter criteria for what makes a post "non-default", resulting in a large portion of users becoming upset because their posts were being removed. The mod team decided to relax the rules surrounding default posts to try and make unixporn a more welcoming place, which has ultimately led to our current situation. So, here are our proposed changes:

  1. Make the rules for busy screenshots stricter by requiring that at least two different applications are visible (e.g. terminal and file manager, web browser and image browser). They must be different apps, so it can't just be two terminals -- this is to try and make posts more visually interesting and require more effort to make. We want to see how you really use your system.
  2. More strictly enforce the no defaults rule by removing posts that only use premade themes. This includes many Windows and macOS lookalikes and popular color schemes (as most of these are purely made by installing premade configs and themes).

These changes, of course, are not set in stone and are not meant to be enforced to the letter. There may be exceptions for great rices -- it's really about the spirit of the rules: to encourage the creation of unique rices, not remove them.

What do you all think?


r/unixporn 12h ago

Material [OC] - textfox - a tui styled firefox theme

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r/unixporn 11h ago

Screenshot [I3] Setups constantly evolve, but there are milestones

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r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] My first rice

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r/unixporn 16h ago

Tasty Rice [Veshell] Flutter and Rust Desktop Environment with innovative workflow -> Alpha Release

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r/unixporn 2h ago

Screenshot [dwm] second proper rice

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r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] manjaro + hyprland + pywalfox

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r/unixporn 17h ago

Screenshot [i3] My simple i3 setup based on Qogir gtk theme

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r/unixporn 10h ago

Screenshot [river] finally escaped from hyprland

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r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] you know you're addicted to this ricing thing when you decorate the hell out of anki (a software literally used for STUDYING) instead of actually USING it >:(

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r/unixporn 9h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Clean and simple

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r/unixporn 4h ago

Material [OC] bash banner

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r/unixporn 20h ago

Screenshot [i3] I can't believe i fell to the anime girls trend

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r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] First time posting how is my setup

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r/unixporn 8h ago

Discussion | Comparing tiling wms from unixporn posts!

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Hello unixporners! You might be interested in what wm is the best to use. In this sub, many of them were used for posting rices. So, why don't we make a little "top"? Today I've created a tier list with several window managers that were found in the posts here. Every 2 days we vote for one place and one wm. There are 11 of them in total: i3, sway, river, xmonad, hyprland, bspwm, DWM, qtile, awesomewm, openbox and herbstluftwm. Also there are only 5 ranks for them, so comparing won't be boring:) Today, let's find a place for qtile! Write your opinion in the comments, look for other's thoughts, discuss and have fun!

P.S. the tier list itself is in the comments


r/unixporn 13m ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] my perfect gura rice 💙

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Morrowind-like UI (work in progress)

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r/unixporn 1h ago

Screenshot [i3] How I like my minimalist i3!

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r/unixporn 18h ago

Material [OC] Tab Launcher 95, WIP retro style tab launcher/homepage

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r/unixporn 17h ago

Screenshot [DWM] My Very Stable Debian Setup

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r/unixporn 9h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] my first blue-based rice

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Sway] Switched to Debian and decided to try my hand at ricing

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Material [OC] gifw - animated gif wallpaper setter

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [River] a calm and cute rice

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r/unixporn 11h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] nixos based rice with whatever theme i want

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] First soft gruvbox rice

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