A collection of desktops

My daily driver currently, Gentoo on Wayland and LabWC. I think this window manager is fantastic. It’s highly configurable but also really simple out of the box. I grew very tired of tiling WMs and pretending I don’t use my mouse. I like using the mouse and I like floating windows god damnit! There, I said it! The wallpaper is some mid 2000s weeb nostalgia, and I themed the WM around Windows XP because hell yeah.

Gentoo Linux with KDE. My first time having the patience to compile a web browser and full DE, but I installed it to a slow SSD so things weren’t as fast as I thought they’d be.

Lain-inspired desktop running on FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T14. Open to the side in Neovim is an original Game of Life implementation in Common Lisp, which is featured on the original show. The code is at least as old as 1995 (as it’s listed here as new_walk.cl) but is probably older and I don’t think the origin is known.

Slackware 10.1 and KDE 3.3.2 authentically sourced and run on an old Pentium machine. I’m coding in OCaml on Emacs in this screenshot, which is not something I am familiar with, but it felt right and seems unique to me. I was also able to get the modern internet working in Mozilla by connecting the old machine to a Raspberry Pi which interfaced with the outside world and acted as a translator to older ciphers, dumber Javascript, etc.

An old, lower effort screenshot of what I called “TalOS”–an Oblivion, specifically Jauffre, themed desktop. It’s a pretty stock-standard Arch Linux and Sway affair.

Void Linux on a Thinkpad T420S running Sway again, I belive. Similar to the Jauffre-themed desktop, this one is an homage to who I call John Gothic. I’m also coding in OCaml here, making a sort of rudimentary cat (without really knowing what I’m doing)