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The Official Linux/Unix Desktop Screenshots Megathread

SchumannFrequency said:
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This is the RAM usage of OpenBSD after the PC has been up for almost two hours.
I find it quite impressive considering it is not a bare bones setup.
It is a fully functional 'desktop setup' with bspwm, Polybar, sxhkd, nitrogen and picom all running at that time.

It is also interesting how the system thinks about security, it makes the security of other systems feel primitive.
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wonder how that OS would run on my test lenovo....
 
Nothing special. I might do something with my desktop someday, but I really like things clean and simple to be honest.

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I'm just showing this because it took me 2 days to figure out how to compile it.... the latest hardinfo compiled with gtk3 under 23.10... still a useful diag if you have the patience to install it...
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refinements to my main rig
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Solaris17 said:
Nothing special. I might do something with my desktop someday, but I really like things clean and simple to be honest.

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How is that resolution to work with? I had a 3440x1440 that i loved but it broke after 2 years. Replaced it with standard 4K monitor and now I have to deal with screen scaling issues.
 
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Alpine Linux has some major advantages over other operating systems.

1. It has the fastest package manager currently available.
2. It has higher security than most operating systems.
3. It has an init system that is about as fast as the s6 init system which is blazing fast.
4. It has ZFS support
5. It now supports a fair amount of apps, window managers and desktop environments.

But it used to have a major problem on all desktop systems and that was screen tearing in X11 environments.
Specifically for Alpine Linux, screen tearing was virtually impossible to solve.

Now, fortunately, you can use Wayland so Alpine Linux is perfectly usable as a desktop system.

In the screenshot I am using River, I have only configured a few keyboard shortcuts but it is functional after only two minutes configuration.
github.com

GitHub - riverwm/river: [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to riverwm/river development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

The setup is very basic at the moment. But this window manager works very well on the AMD RX 7600.
 
Decided to try Manjaro again in a vm, didn't have much luck previously for some reason. I think I'm preferring it over other arch distros now. This is the kde version:
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Manjaro passed... running it on bare metal now:
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Not sure if the multi-quote thing works... but I've had a few fights with Manjaro... I actually had to start again today. But once it's set up, I can run everything I
did under Kubuntu. I wanted to see if an arch distro could be as easy to use as Ubuntu. Manjaro actually is! Of course it helps to know pacman ect...
It actually has a single line install for wine... much easier than Ubuntu. It's quite a clean install, you'll have to add a lot of stuff, but you'll know it's what you
want instead of a bunch of crap.
 
More fun with manjaro... turns out there regular wine is the same as development... and staging is still back at 8.21... so now I basically have it working like kubuntu, don't pick staging under manjaro
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Also some advice for any compiling using make... use the -j switch! I tried to compile wine and it took 1 1/4hrs. I used make -j 6 the next time, it took 12 minutes. -j 8 took 8 minutes.
 
there version of KDE looks great!
 
I like it too. I'm getting more and more used to pacman and pamac. Also learned about installing .zst packages. Didn't know about that one!
But overall Manjaro can do anything Ubuntu can do. Although probably helps if you have a few years linux experience....
 
Well, Manjaro is now my primary os. It's just set up for things like compiling, and even helps you install compilers and libs. Endeavoros was nice, but way too much hand holding, this one makes you just find the dam source, and make! Well another cool thing is it's set up to use any kernel you want, including 6.7 and 6.8 rc. I was worried about trying 6.7 as virtualbox isn't actually updated for that yet.
But I had to try... running win11 vm under 6.7 kernel...
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johnspack said:
Well, Manjaro is now my primary os. It's just set up for things like compiling, and even helps you install compilers and libs. Endeavoros was nice, but way too much hand holding, this one makes you just find the dam source, and make! Well another cool thing is it's set up to use any kernel you want, including 6.7 and 6.8 rc. I was worried about trying 6.7 as virtualbox isn't actually updated for that yet.
But I had to try... running win11 vm under 6.7 kernel...
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Try a vm within a vm
 
Now you know that requires serious hardware! I'm not quite there yet. Also needs Nested VT-x/AMD-V. My system is too slow for it, but I can do it anyways:

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johnspack said:
Now you know that requires serious hardware! I'm not quite there yet. Also needs Nested VT-x/AMD-V. My system is too slow for it, but I can do it anyways:

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I've done it!

Server 2012 host>hyper v>vmware esxi/vsphere>server 2012 w VirtualBox>windows 8

Specs: 3570k/16gb ram/500gb ssd/650ti
 
Windows 8 is is very small client at this point... and irrelevant. My clients are all current. And for even the average power user, we don't require running vms within vms.
I have over 20 vms... I can run any one of them I want and change settings ect. With 64gbs ram.. and 24 threads I can run more than one. And my server with 36 threads
also helps. Workstations and servers. Thats why I don't have to do that.....
 
johnspack said:
Windows 8 is is very small client at this point... and irrelevant. My clients are all current. And for even the average power user, we don't require running vms within vms.
I have over 20 vms... I can run any one of them I want and change settings ect. With 64gbs ram.. and 24 threads I can run more than one. And my server with 36 threads
also helps. Workstations and servers. Thats why I don't have to do that.....
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I did it for the lols and the fuck of it so.... just to push the limits.... I tried to go even deeper and it wouldn't work... I'll dig around for some screenshots too..
 
MSDOS Retro said:
When you install Windows in a VM in Linux :kookoo:

Meme Harold GIF by Aeromexico



:D:D
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Lol. Just did it yesterday on our work server.... Forgot to do some screenshots.
Decided to go against ESXi with all the recent bad news, and Proxmox ended up being an overhyped piece of garbage. Heck, it ended up being easier to set up my storage and VMs via terminal, than banging my head on the desk trying to figure out how to take back 300++GB of "dissapeared" SSD storage from stupid proxmox.

So now it's a boring ubuntu server that's running a VM with stripped down Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, and another one with CentOS appliance.
 
silentbogo said:
Lol. Just did it yesterday on our work server.... Forgot to do some screenshots.
Decided to go against ESXi with all the recent bad news, and Proxmox ended up being an overhyped piece of garbage. Heck, it ended up being easier to set up my storage and VMs via terminal, than banging my head on the desk trying to figure out how to take back 300++GB of "dissapeared" SSD storage from stupid proxmox.

So now it's a boring ubuntu server that's running a VM with stripped down Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, and another one with CentOS appliance.
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Hock tan killed vmware and me and several others think he needs hocked tf out of running any company
 
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