https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ The Packbats' Weblog - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:06:19 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios packbat personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/17127286/244784 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/344072.html Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:06:19 GMT https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/344072.html <p>Before...</p> <a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/file/19436.png"><img src="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/file/200x200/19436.png" title="KDE Plasma mostly-default" alt="A few open windows in a fairly default KDE Plasma setup. On top is a dark-mode Konsole window with output from hyfetch (a neofetch fork with pride flags) showing system information in a default dark-mode palette with an aro-ace-colored NixOS logo; next is KWrite, a text editor, displaying a lentil pasta sauce recipe in Bedstead, an aesthetically-pleasing monospace font, and finally there&#39;s a Dolphin file browser window showing various subfolders of a Books folder. All windows have light gray headers with a lot of blank space. The desktop is mostly turquoise and cerulean."></a> <p>...and after.</p> <a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/file/19075.png"><img src="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/file/200x200/19075.png" title="KDE Plasma linuxversary" alt="A similar stack of open windows in a much more customized setup. The Konsole window now has the same Bedstead font and is light-mode, with the sixteen standard colors darkened to contrast with the default light background. The headers of all the windows now have titles in bold face on an orange (when active) or gray (when inactive) bar, with the buttons indicated with a kind of pixel-art 3D effect. Within that, different sections of the header are segmented. The Dolphin window has two tabs, which are nicely distinguished by lightness. The desktop has some kind of full-screen painterly image in purples and browns, and the accent color is pink."></a> <p>Gonna try and talk through what's happening here.</p> <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/344072.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div> <p>Customizing takes a lot longer than we expected. But also it turns out we had a lot more ability to decide what we wanted than we feared. And it turns out we do like customizing it a bit.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=344072" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/344072.html linux journalling read time: a minute public 0 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/343982.html Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:09:08 GMT https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/343982.html <p>Over the past month and a half, as we've been coming up on the anniversary of our first installing Linux, we started poking at blog post ideas trying to sum up our thoughts and feelings - something honest, that captures some feelings.</p> <p>We ended up writing two different posts with very different tones, and struggling to decide which to post. And then in a moment of shitpostiness, we said: <q>cursed option: html table, one on the left, one on the right</q>.</p> <p>...whereupon our friends were immediately like <strong>"yes"</strong>.</p> <p>So: <a href="https://packbat.neocities.org/linux_year_one_twice">here are our thoughts about our experiences of our linux year 1 (twice).</a></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=343982" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/343982.html link time: few minutes journalling linux politics links nixos life public 0