Look at that subtle off-grey colouring
The tasteful thickness of it
Oh my God. There's even a glint of the nearby icons' colours along the edges.

>>105567854 (OP)
I'm white.

>>105567902
The new apple update unironically makes kde look good. Quite the achievement.

>>105567902
>vulcansphere

>>105567854 (OP)
i was going to implement a shader for picom that looked like this to make a modern aero, but looks like apple had the same idea for me

>>105567975
The picture was from google images

>>105567902
>claims to be white
>uses spotify
You have exposed yourself, Raj

>>105568123
>>105568089

>>105568123
If this thread lasts another 11 hours I'll post my actual desktop.

>>105567854 (OP)
>>105567902
>>105568171
Behold. The True Patrician's choice.

You don't "need" a desktop environment or details on window borders.

All you need is a 117 line AHK script
https://pastebin.com/dyKjckg8

>>105568245
>You don't "need" a desktop environment
you are running one

>>105568123
White people use Netease Music(网易云音乐)

>>105568317
No. It's just dwm.exe, the window manager. explorer.exe, the DE, is not running.

Don't tell me you don't know the difference between a wm and DE?

>>105568123
The amount of non-stop haters is kind of unreal.

>>105567854 (OP)
>There's even a glint of the nearby icons' colours along the edges.

That's actually pretty cool.

>>105568365
When you overlook basic principles of visual design, when even fucking microshit knew how important contrast is from their most recent glassy design langugage "Fluent 2" from 2 years ago, you cannot fucking expect to be praised.

Liquid glass is neither remotely original, nor any good. And that has to be mocked when the primary argument for years by applefags has been how their OSes have superior design.

>>105568388
True. I can hand them atleast that. And the switch animation that was posted on the board yesterday. That was cool too, but it's such a clusterfuck in general that Apple should be ashamed and go out of business immediately.

>>105567854 (OP)
Why do you use MacOS rather than Linux?
they are so bloat so I was only forced to use it for work

>>105568155
>no black pepper

>>105568426
Did finishing pepper. This was an hour before I put it in. I was doing a reverse sear.

>>105568388
Why is that reflection only on the inner glass subwindow and not on the outer window?

Doesn't even make physical sense, the inner window is physically more elevated and the icons are on the windows below. The light should interact with the outer window before it does with the inner window.

If you don't pay attention to it, it's inconsequential but when you do, it's disorienting.

>>105568401
MacOS is the better desktop, Linux is the better server.

>>105568328
The Desktop Environment is not "explorer.exe" but the collection of GUI software that comes with Windows. So if you open File Explorer, and then later Control Panel, then Task Manager, etc., you are using the Windows Desktop Environment. Do you get what I'm saying, stupid retard?

>>105568436
> STOP THE RAID
> i need to admire these raytraced reflections on this blood drop and the new detailed cloth textures on my burlap underware
> not sure why I’m getting 4 fps guys… any hints?

>>105568436
IDK anon but I dont expect everything to be perfect, just passable.

>>105568440
>MacOS is the better desktop
Not really. You can prefer it, but it's not better than Linux offerings (total freedom, total control). If you want a desktop that 'just works' then yes use Mac. But if you like to tinker, at all, use Linux. Or, pro tip, use both.

>>105568453
The desktop environment is explorer.exe

Explorer controls ALL keyboard shortcuts + Desktop + Snip and Sketch + Whiteboard + Start Menu + Search + Taskbar + Multiple Desktops. Kill explorer and all you're left with is no shortcuts except Ctrl+alt+del, which is a OS function, no background and only the minimal window controls with no way to launch further software.

Do you have any idea what a DE is? Control Panel and Task Manager are not part of the DE, they are GUI OS utilities like explorer, all built on win32, but independent from it, and dwm.exe does not support launching them directly. I launch them using run mapped with an AHK shortcut.

are i3wm and suckless-dwm also fucking DEs to you? dwm.exe has even less features than both, and is a subset of their functionality.

If they are not DEs, then dwm.exe isn't either.

>>105568400
I was replying to someone bitching about anon using spotify

>>105567854 (OP)
>100 likes on Xitter
What's your shemale Onlyfans?

>>105568523
Let's try this again. The Desktop Environment is the collection of GUI software that comes with Windows. Does i3 come with a program to manage your desktop or a graphical file explorer or an application launcher or a graphical network manager or a screenshot tool? No? Then it's not a Desktop Environment but a Window Manager.

I hope this makes things a little clearer for your tiny, confused mongoloid brain.

>>105567854 (OP)
>More GPU power needed to render, and keep rendered, all of those extra effects
>Battery dies 10 times as fast

>>105568522
Ironically though, nowadays MacOS is way better for programming than Windows.
I use both and if I didn't need some propietary software, I would've fucked off to Linux ages ago.

>>105568628
>nowadays
It's always been like this. Windows didn't get a (semi-)normal shell until 2016. It still doesn't have a normal package manager. The iToddlers meme is literally just from macOS not being tinker-tranny-friendly.

>>105568582
>Graphical file explorer - Explorer
>Application launcher - Start menu
>Graphical network manager. - Status bar network manager
>Screenshot tool - Snip and Sketch
All of these, cannot be invoked if the explorer is not running. Snip and sketch is admittedly a separate utility but it's integration is explorer specific. The rest are all literally parts of explorer. So, yes dwm.exe does not come with any of those. You haven't no idea just how much of windows is simply explorer.exe.

>>105567854 (OP)
fine. round my window corners, put retarded glass effects on everything, just please PLEASE make finder good.

please...

>>105568687
Snip and Sketch is also just a part of explorer.exe

explorer ms-screenclip:

Explorer is the entire DE.

>>105568742
And yes, dll extensions and shell features are considered part of explorer if the canonical way to launch them is through explorer.

Reminder that all "shell extensions" in windows are extensions to explorer.

>>105568742
>>105568687
Do you use PowerShell?

>>105568770
It's a keybind in the mindows environment although I only ever use cygwin and run

>>105568777
So you use Run. Do you use Task Manager?

>>105568401
>>105568440
>MacOS is the better desktop, Linux is the better server.
Incorrect. MacOS is the better (the best in fact) laptop, Linux is the better desktop and server (and fully compatible with your Macbook too).

>>105568780
Both of them are not a part of the DE. I call run through rundll.exe
"rundll32.exe shell32.dll,#61"

,which is a basic commandline OS utility and I don't want to hear you argue that task manager is a part of the DE, even though I use Process Explorer. It's a separate elevated process running independently of all userland process.

>>105568809
Do you use Settings? Do you use Registry Editor? At this point I'm just going through a list of graphical utilities that come with Windows. Do you know why? Because that's what a Desktop Environment is. The Desktop Environment is the collection of GUI software that comes with Windows.

>>105568846
A DE isn't just "all GUI software" indiscriminately.

A DE is the collection of software that has something to do with the "Desktop Environment", the well defined definition of the work flow around icons and a desktop.

RegEdit, and Control Panel are configuration utilities that can be used to configure some parts of the desktop if they exist. In my case, they don't.

You do know that there's other GUI workflows that are not a DE right? Do you think i3wm runs on text mode VGA? It ships it's own graphical utilities as well. It renders pixels rather than text on text mode VGA. If I were to go by your definition. Any linux environment that is not a text mode VGA tty is a fucking DE.

DE is a well defined workflow. It doesn't mean GUI. Windows is a GUI first OS, unlike linux. On linux, windowing systems like wayland and Xorg run over the OS (that includes the tty shell and the kernel), on windows win32 is a part of the OS and win32 is the canonical published syscall interface. Win32 and the GUI utilities, are literally the part of the OS, as much as the syscall interface is to the linux kernel and cat/grep are to the shell, respectively.

The DE is a well defined thing, and this is not it.

>>105568909
>A DE isn't just "all GUI software" indiscriminately.
Right. It's a collection of GUI software for interacting with your computer, in your case, provided by Windows.

>A DE is the collection of software that has something to do with the "Desktop Environment"
?

>the well defined definition of the work flow around icons and a desktop
>DE is a well defined workflow.
You're actually just making up your own definition now

>If I were to go by your definition. Any linux environment that is not a text mode VGA tty is a fucking DE.
By my definition, a DE is a bundled collection of graphical utilities for interacting with your computer.

It's really not that hard to grasp. Just admit you were wrong already.

>>105567854 (OP)
this looks like shit man. more load on the hardware and for what? for this stupid bullshit that is directed at the same subhuman mind that goes basedface when it sees a brand is engraved onto a soap bar in a video game.

>>105568909

>>105567854 (OP)
They use shit like this to obsoletize your machines to force you to upgrade.

>>105567854 (OP)
Unprecedented SOVL, thank you based Apple.
>>105568401
Unless you're doing some autistic shit with the kernel MacOS is actually less bloated.
You're pseudo minimalist wm doesn't count.

>>105568970
>By my definition, a DE is a bundled collection of graphical utilities for interacting with your computer.
i3 satisfies that definition as well.

>You're actually just making up your own definition now
I'm not. There is no DE without icons and a launcher, and a desktop containing said icons and a background. That's the desktop workflow. It's well defined and commonly used. It's what is common between GNOME, XFCE, Explorer, MATE, Cinnamon, MacOS DE, KDE and literally everything that claims to be a DE, and absent from everything that doesn't.

>Right. It's a collection of GUI software for interacting with your computer, in your case, provided by Windows.
No? GUI software can exist without a desktop environment.

If you linux distro ships with i3wm or dwm installed by default and there's also a network manager utility shipped that you can open with a command, that is not integrated with your wm. Is that a DE? That is literally what my setup is. Please think your words through.

>>105569041
a GUI* network manager utility

>>105567902
>linux
>white
ranjeet... i...

>>105568522
>tinker tranny
grow up

>>105569030
it is visual beautified update saar + buy new apple product are you poor saar

>>105568789
I agree with this.

>>105569203
kek

>>105567854 (OP)
>Local AI SDK
>Containerization framework
>Instant iPhone control without scrcpy niggershit
>Real beautiful widgets
>Full automation framework with location and context awareness (AHK and linux python scripts on suicide watch)
>Revamped spotlight with context awareness, dynamic fill automations, key shortcuts, context awareness...

Starting to feel real FOMO, KDE and GNOME look like trash (GNOME has potential but it's funds starved), I've been running Loonix exclusively for the past 5 years but this ain't it.
I'm tired of writing custom services for basic shit, I'm tired of trying to create a hack/workaround app for Gnome Search to extend it, simple efficient devcontainers are not a linux exclusive anymore, Android doesn't integrate at all with the desktop, no real ARM linux laptop 5 years after M1 dropped.

Only drawback is gayman which I barely do anymore.

I'm tired boss.

>>105567902
>1200x675
is this guy white?

>>105568522
>>105569438
I love tinkering but anytime I need to be productive, macOS just doesn't get in my way.
The biggest issue I have is laggy and messy chrome/electron apps.
And I have a ridiculously powerful full red workstation.

Like it or not webapps are what makes linux bearable nowadays yet it's a subhuman experience.
How long have we had to wait for tab drag with wayland/ozone?

>>105569438
Oh yeah and the tablet UI is going away with Tahoe too.
Apple is having its Windows 7 moment.

YOUR TROONIX POLITICS BORE ME.

why does gnome, kde, xfce and whatever else always look like shit

>>105567902
Indians aren't white.