tried out windowmaker on my thinkpad while dicking around with slackware, liked it enough to try it on my main Arch rig. without going too deep into customization i believe i've got it in a good spot, how's this?
(trying to cover up the crusty jpeg wallpaper here, lol)


Nothing too fancy as I spent most of the time tweaking my shortcuts to match TDE and getting some essential dockapps working, perhaps I will make my own theme tomorrow

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I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

Quoting: Avehicle7887I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

I see you "old" Ryzen 1700X and show you my still actively in use 11 years old 3rd Gen Intel Laptop :grin:



Uptime 34 seconds I know I just booted it up for this screenshot :D

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Finally, I'll pitch in here, too! Last weekend I got an extremely good deal on a used ThinkPad that I simply couldn't pass up. After replacing the smallish ssd and some tinkering I'm satisfied with my little XFCE setup.



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For October:

Now that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

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Quoting: sourpuzNow that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

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Some yes some not. Actually these are 3 BtrFS file system which do consist of:

1TB M.2 (root + home)
1TB + 1TB Sata SSDs (Datalake 1)
4TB + 4 TB HDDs (Datalake 2)

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Simon Stålenhag? You have great taste in art!

Here.

My typical Xfce4 setup using one of the themes I've made for it:



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Still using MATE desktop. Rock solid Desktop Environment. Theme info is on the right side in terminal.
Was lazy to blur the GOL discord, but those are all public channels so it shouldn't be an issue



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My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of) :grin:

Quoting: Avehicle7887My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of) :grin:

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Race? :D Mine is over 11 years old :)

xpander@archlinux ~ $ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

I admittedly can't quite match that:
[hamish@NERV ~]$ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2015-11-24 00:09] [ALPM] installed filesystem (2015.09-1)
[hamish@NERV ~]$ 

Rolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!

Or rather .. tumbling? Okay, I'll show myself out.

I have a question: I like Tumbleweed, but I've always wondered: since rolling release distros are always on the cutting edge of (in this case) Gnome development, don't extensions break quite often, because they don't work with the newest Gnome version yet?
You seem to have several extensions running.

Quoting: DoctorJunglistRolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!

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Breakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

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Thanks for the long answer! I was asking because I've returned to Tumbleweed on my laptop and I was wondering about whether to use extensions. I quite like the vanilla Gnome experience, the only thing I really need are the AppIndicators in the top panel, for Steam and some other apps.

Quoting: DoctorJunglistBreakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

skittered back to an ubuntu-based distro after suffering a catastrophic failure on fedora. yippeeeeeeeeeee