he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
I don’t think the video was bad and I’m glad desktop Linux is getting a good amount of attention this way.
But… I feel like he didn’t exactly show windows users what really expects them on Mint (which is a very similar but in many ways better and quite easy experience). This might be off putting to some unconvinced Windows users.
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
noxypaws@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
I would not underestimate how much of a draw “it looks cool” can have on people who are not tech savy at all. If you think about what drives new phone purchases, their major version upgrades always include lots of things that are nothing but eye-candy and those are often heavily featured in their promotion material.
If the goal is to get casual users to convert to Linux, I would argue that aesthetics is a lot more important than ANY talk about technical details, privacy, etc. If those users cared about those things, they would’ve switched already.
Now my bigger worry is that those users will bounce off before they manage to get their setup to look as (subjectively) cool as his.
muhyb@programming.dev 14 hours ago
passepartout@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Make desktop go cube brrr
Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Is life worth living if your windows don’t wobble?
dean@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Wayfire is a Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz: github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
BuckWylde@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Now we’re talkin’
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 11 hours ago
Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.