For the border it’s just css. In your style.css:

window#waybar {
  background-color: @background;
  color: @foreground;
  opacity: 1;
  border: 1px solid @accent;
}

(where those are variables representing my waybar colours, you can ofc use literal values instead)

Yep, waybar. Much better than polybar as you can customise it with css

TIL about Trinity. Honestly looks pretty cool and cosy, although maybe that’s just the nostalgia talking. It’s always nice to see projects to maintain more retro visuals while running modern software on modern hardware.

I’ve not tried them personally but I’ve seen quite a few aero themes for KDE and I think XFCE too if you want an aero look. Or if you just want a glassy texture you can adjust your blur settings in your compositor and add translucency/transparency. I have a very nice-looking matte frosted glass look on my Hyprland laptop.

Most of my friends use Signal. Honestly hadn’t heard of RCS till now. Either my phone only supports SMS or I’m too technologically incompetent to enable RCS.

Hm, I have lsof installed. Wonder why it’s showing Sway then. Not a big deal, I won’t waste time trying to get it to show

I’m showing you the parts I’m happy with—a lot of programs are not customised! Also, it’s a placeholder wallpaper & neofetch theme, etc

I completely get why you’d stick with MacOS if you need CC software. That being said I am very glad about the general lack of anti-user software like Adobe’s suite on Linux and I hope they don’t port their CC software to Linux. Instead I hope FOSS alternatives get better to the point where most PS/CC users can reasonably meet all their needs with free (as in libre) software. GIMP is pretty decent these days although I find it a lot more clunky and awkward to use than PS. But hopefully either the gap can close or some new FOSS developer can create an even better alternative.

Yeah, seriously. Phones work fine hardware-wise for much longer than they get software updates for. If a company has to choose between supporting their existing model or making a new phone in terms of workload, they should support their existing model until at least most of the people who bought the phone when it was new now have physically broken phones.

I think it was already the precedent for mainstream social media to delete illegal content from their sites (such as doxxing). Although they did delete the entire accounts of the doxxers, not just the dox itself, which I think is setting a precedent.

Welcome! My main piece of advice to you is use your package manager and don’t just download software from your browser like you would on Windows. Installing software with a command line package manager is the superior way to do it—nothing to do with being a leet hackerman/woman using the terminal, it is just an easier way to keep all your software centrally up to date without having to individually update each one separately, and it’s faster to do in the terminal rather than bother with the bloat and slowness of a GUI. Generally, Windows teaches you a lot of bad computer habits you should try to unlearn. I think installing software from the web is the biggest Windows-based mistake I made when new to Linux.

I think more generally learn to use the command line, a lot of things they have guis for (eg burning an iso, mounting or formatting a drive, version control guis, etc) are completely doable from the command line and it’s faster and more reliable to just use Unix commands for these things than to rely on a potentially buggy or slow gui program.

That’s a shame about musl, musl sounds cool.

I wonder if you have thoughts on Artix? I’m going to do an Artix install soon, I like the sound of it as it’s systemd-free (you can use runit with it like Void) but still lets you use the AUR. If not for that I think I’d go with Void instead though, I hear fewer people complaining about things not working with Void so it sounds to me like Void might be more stable than Artix.

Looks really nice. I think I’d use Void if not for the AUR.

Really great aesthetic, nice stuff.

Btw, I’d recommend imv for an image viewer as it has native Wayland support (not that it’s a huge deal, xwayland for an image viewer works fine, but I just like using native Wayland programs wherever possible)