DMS is a pretty good gateway drug out of major DEs and into WMs like Niri. I had already started using Niri but the base DMS configuration has a lot more batteries included so I switched and so far haven't had any major complaints.
I've been really enjoying using DMS as a daily driver. I had been partial to Cosmic DE, but the overall visual appearance, pace of development, and ecosystem around DMS made me switch.
Haha, dude, the stuff we used to do when we were young. Transparent conky on the desktop showing a bunch of graphs that drive their own selves up. Spinning cubes to get workspaces. Loved it. And ran it on absolutely garbage hardware too.
It will always be uncool to do this stuff, and I will always be there for it.
a vibe-coded "shell", which is a term that has evolved to describe a suite of software that does all the desktop-environment stuff that you don't get when you use an X11 window manager or Wayland compositor that isn't part of a bigger desktop ecosystem.
DMS is a pretty good gateway drug out of major DEs and into WMs like Niri. I had already started using Niri but the base DMS configuration has a lot more batteries included so I switched and so far haven't had any major complaints.
I've been really enjoying using DMS as a daily driver. I had been partial to Cosmic DE, but the overall visual appearance, pace of development, and ecosystem around DMS made me switch.
despite how cringe everything about this is, i'll support anything that gets young people using linux
I agree, I switched to noctalia so I get all the performance benefits without the baggage of telling people I use Dank
Noctalia will soon release v5, which is a complete rewrite in C++, which makes it even more appealing if you care about the performance.
Yes, I'm on the beta of v5 and it works flawlessly
Haha, dude, the stuff we used to do when we were young. Transparent conky on the desktop showing a bunch of graphs that drive their own selves up. Spinning cubes to get workspaces. Loved it. And ran it on absolutely garbage hardware too.
It will always be uncool to do this stuff, and I will always be there for it.
The margins/padding on stuff and the sizing is very haphazard.
I've been trying Zirconium[1] (a fedora atomic-based bootable container image with niri+dms) since a few weeks ago, works really well. Can recommend.
[1]: github.com/zirconium-dev/zirconium
What's the benefit to using this over Nix flakes
not having to learn what Nix flakes are is a pretty big plus
That sounds like a minus. Nix is OP
What is a DMS?
From the link:
> DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5
From the home page:
> Dank Linux: Modern Desktop
Seems like an overall UI (user interface) framework for Linux Desktop.
Visit https://danklinux.com/ to learn more.
a vibe-coded "shell", which is a term that has evolved to describe a suite of software that does all the desktop-environment stuff that you don't get when you use an X11 window manager or Wayland compositor that isn't part of a bigger desktop ecosystem.