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This sure looks nice. My problem with nice looking Linux is that I becomes too limited and I get forced into habits that I don't like. Now all I use is bspwm, no status bars or anything, a lot of times I miss having something good looking though. But I became happier when I just let it go, it's easy to go down that road of constant tweaking.

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I'm not a bspwm user myself, but it can look really nice as well (a different sort of nice I suppose). You could check /r/unixporn[1] for inspiration / examples / shameless copy-cat. It's really incredible what some people are pulling off[2][3][4].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3r85qh/bspwm_ligh...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3og32q/bspwm_wip_...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3xen3g/bspwm_func...

Thanks, but I already know it ofc :)

Most of the stuff there is nice but it's nothing more than this really:

- A nice background.

- GTK themes and icons which I have, easy enough.

- A nice looking bar, but the one most commonly used with bspwm is made up by a messy shell script.

- Custom terminal colours, looks good in ncmpcpp but I need a usable terminal.

Every time I see a new tiling window manager I get a little thrill of excitement. Then I discover it's identical to every other one, including the one I already use. This isn't a complaint. I'm really happy with how pointless they make constant tweaking and customising

I'm back to ratpoison after using xmonad, and it's tempting to play with something new, but I only ever use one maximized window on each screen, so it's kind of pointless.

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