Thread 106957930

>Linux is free if you don't value your time.
This statement here is truth. I spend months during my 3rd uni semester building Arch Linux from scratch with 'tism and it ruined my college life. However, it did teach me a lot of things about 'puters and one of it is that WMs suck.
What I need is just a command to install a whole Desktop Environment that will automatically pull all the WMs, panels, file managers and desktop icons (yes I need those), start menu, screen lockers, volume control, autostart programs, and so on. You literally cannot do this in one go with WMs, and I'm too bothered to go through 1000 lines of config files just to make it look good (I'm no ricer), or to set up autostarts on programs that I already expect to launch at the start.
That said, THE ONLY decent, usable, fairly "complete" WMwith some of my needs on install is IceWM, because it came with a panel and wallpaper, but it's still barebone and I have to add other packages to get through at minimal. How do you even survive this?

>Linux is free if you don't value your time.
Of course that I wont valuing my time, existence is finite and time priceless.

>launcher
>virtual desktops/window groups
>resize, maximize, close, kill

>>106957930 (OP)
you willingly chose the thing that wastes as much time as possible barring gentoo and choose to complain about it instead of just using a just werks distro. that's on you, dawg

wms don't matter. all you need is a terminal window and tmux

>>106957930 (OP)
>redpill me
how about you use your own fucking brain for once instead of offshoring your thinking to 4chan you stupid cunt

>>106957930 (OP)
>>106957976
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>>106958023
macOS doesn't have this problem

>>106958848
You should be 18 years old to post here, anon

>>106959138
Do you enjoy looking at this lesbian or do you imagine yourself sitting there in their skirt?

>Washing your bum after going poopoos is free if you don't value your time.

sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop
Or whatever package manager your clown distro uses
Enjoy.

>>106957930 (OP)
>This statement here is truth.
Your time is literally worthless if you're unemployed. I spent an hour on a 3 dollar bus ride instead of a 17 dollar Uber today and basically paid myself 14 dollars an hour by doing so

Your time is a lot less valuable than you think as well once you actually realize how many hours every day you waste doing suboptimal or completely irrelevant bullshit anyways

>>106957930 (OP)
this is not your blog

>>106957930 (OP)
Just install gnome or KDE you absolute idiot. Wms exist so people who want to micro literally everything can do that.

>>106957930 (OP)
holy shit markiplier

>>106957930 (OP)
>1 gazillion other distros infinitely more user friendly
>chooses Arch
>tries to build Arch from scratch while obviously hating the process
>"duuuh this ruined my college life"
>"corpo scam asian man was right, Linux is a waste of time"

No, doing something you're not inclined to do just to look cool is a waste of time you gigantic faggot. You obviously don't even like OS customization. Just go back to windoze or mac and GTFO, nobody cares about what OS you use. A lot of normalfags trying to use Linux to look like a l33t hax0r in college or something else, I don't really know. Maybe too much Linux users preaching to retards who shouldn't even know about this. That's why you don't fucking advertise good things for the public, you make yourself your own happy place and be happy with it.

>>106958003
>all you need is a terminal window and tmux
you can't run graphics in a terminal doe

>>106957930 (OP)
You have enough time to be shitposting on /g/, it can't be that valuable.

>>106957930 (OP)
>spend months building Arch Linux from scratch
you obviously should've made a dotfiles repo. but if you dont want to reconfigure just install Omarchy, its your one command install prericed WM

>>106957930 (OP)
>I value my time
>So Im going to install the hackefman arch linux from le heckin command line
>And with a tilling window manager no less
>As a first attempt
>And didnt switch
>And picrel is techlead
This story belongs on reddit

>>106957930 (OP)
They're just rectangle managers that everybody seethes about autistically and somehow not a single person or group has perfected them over the course of 40+ years and counting. Yes, people failed at fucking making movable rectangles.

>>106959138
Mac window management is so abhorrent it's a genuine time sink, finding the window you are looking for is a pain when not using a trackpad.
Plus basic stuff missing like no window snap and no clipboard management.

>>106957930 (OP)
you're conflating terms. if you want a hollistic suite you just go with a desktop environment, which includes but isn't just a window manager ... if you want just a window manager, then you're only gonna get a window manager. you're an idiot if you choose that path and think it should be all you need.
anyway, i just use lxqt + bspwm. i haven't changed my configs for them in a significant way in years. just a few lines if i have any new long-term app additions. there's zero waste in that regard unless you're some retard that keeps distrohopping and tinkertrannying for no productive reason.

>>106958003
>barring gentoo
gentoo doesn't waste much time. Compile times are only shit if your PC is ancient. There's also binary packages now

>>106957930 (OP)
>types a long ass post complaining about explicit time wastes you opted into
classic

>>106960233
Time of wageslaves is worthless too

>>106957930 (OP)
>building Arch Linux from scratch
You know Mint and Ubuntu exist, you can use Linux without ever touching the terminal.

>>106957930 (OP)
based
>>106959138
and redpilled

Not gonna lie, I wasted less time configuring and setting up my arch than Windows 10 back in the day.