After a few weeks of experimenting on another machine with CachyOS and Hyprland I finally decided I didn’t like Hyprland as much as I needed to for a full-time switch - too unstable, lots of weird quirks. It’s very good looking and with a lot of fiddling you can make it beautiful, but the term “form over function” has never been more appropriate - it’s definitely not ready for prime time unless all you care about is just making it look pretty (the irony of posting this in the Share Your Desktop thread is not lost on me, don’t worry).
However, I did learn a good number of things while I was experimenting, and developed a few new preferences along the way that I then spent a bunch of time working into my Plasma setup here on EOS, so it wasn’t all a waste .
A little light remixing of a previous theme I was using later coupled with a change of terminal, some time tweaking fastfetch and a lot of wrestling with KDE’s settings for window rules, virtual desktops and shortcut keys let me integrate a lot of the things I did like about Hyprland into Plasma - top of my list was shortcut keys to launch and kill apps along with focus-on-mouseover (which is a revelation all by itself )
If you want I can share the code in the conky thread.
It’s not mine, just something I found somewhere and tweaked to my needs.
Lining up the 8 CPU bars was tricky. I wanted to do something other than the standard 2x4 or 4x2 CPU list.
first: dockbarX still preferable to plank for me; still love it.
second: for all you purple lovers I will testify that a muted purple like this for 2 weeks straight tickles my mood if that makes sense. focused and I get more done.
New user here, switched to EndeavourOS recently as I’ve build a new Desktop, all AMD, merely on a budget. (ASrock Deskmeet x300 which is a 6L mini ITX barebone)
My installation process and initial configurations went quite well up so far and I’m pretty happy up so far. KDE Plasma has some nice touches to it, but also a few “misdemeanors”.
Slowly getting the hang of it and in this process it seems like that I didn’t had the CPPC BIOS setting enabled during the installation process and my installation didn’t included the amd_pstate driver. Thus I currently compiling an custom kernel config based on extra/zen.
Anyway, I’ld like to get the most of my hardware - while being relatively power efficient. Currently I’ve configured the machine with cTDP down to 45w and would like to benefit from additional lower CPU frequencies. Which helps a lot to keep the temperatures down.
Learned quite a lot in the last 3 weeks ! And still have some polishing to do, which will be the status quo most likely Turned out that the machine is quite powerful in comparison to my old machine and I struggle to cope with 100 fps in Doom Eternal …
The forums software keeps corrupting the image for whatever reason, so I’ve had to upload it elsewhere, but here is the raw image in it’s original 4k resolution before I started monkeying with it.
- it’s definitely not ready for prime time unless all you care about is just making it look pretty (the irony of posting this in the Share Your Desktop thread is not lost on me, don’t worry).
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