I believe, the ASCII lines program is called pipes.sh. The program in the bottom right is cmatrix.

They're definitely not essential for every Linux user. I've been using i3 for over a decade now and I will not be parted from it because it lets me make tabs of terminals and then split windows with tabs of terminals and I can jump around between my tabs of tabs of terminals like a deranged monkey with all my fun hotkeys. I am not a well adjusted person. Most people don't want to spend the time customizing their window manager config to get it just so or learn a bunch of hotkeys. Most people like graphical file managers and graphical text editors. Most people should just use a regular ass DE. If you try a tiling window manager and you like it then welcome to the poorly adjusted people club. If not, then you are missing nothing because your brain simply requires a different workflow.

the person who took the screenshot was showing off their rice. the ASCII lines are a pipe program, similar to the old Win98 Pipes screensaver. the bottom right is literally just the ASCII rain from The Matrix movies.

I appreciate this tip - thank you!

Hey, friend, why the hate? Can't someone love Linux without hating other operating systems?

Also, if you feel there's a better source for capturing statistics on desktop OS usage in North America, please don't be shy to share it with the rest of us!

I believe the source for what the OP shared is the following:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america

Have a great one!

Plenty of kids starve in America

To starving kids in Africa, that is snobby. So it’s all relative.

AI scrapers use their own user agent and for sure don't use a browser to scrap

I find that KDE's default keybinds make sense to me:

• meta + PageUp = maximize
• meta + Arrow Key = the active window tiles around the screen. (when done with multiple windows, they can be resized with each other!)

I have not tried used a tiling window manager. KDE fucks :)

What’s the window with the acsii lines and what’s the window on the bottom right?

That's so funny lmao

I eat pizza to be snobby

Some people eat caviar because they like caviar.

Definitely not essential in any way for general desktop usage. Its main selling point is that you don't need to use your mouse to control the windows as opposed to other window managers. For people who are used to programs that heavily revolve around keybinds, it makes the desktop completely usable without touching the mouse at all. Also these programs usually come with text based configuration with minimal defaults, and pretty much lets them to customise it however they want.

Use man pages. Why use questionable LLM results when the manual is literally built in

Why is that obvious?

I daily KDE for work with little customization and it does everything I need. Use what makes you productive with the least hassle, at least that's what I go for.

I love how everyone here(kinda including me too) is eating up bs willingly cause we hate windows so much. Its obviously not at 10%

Hey, if KDE does it for you, just use it. I switch between xfce4 and i3 depending on what i'm doing. When coding or managing network devices, I3 it my way to go. Browsing, email, documenting : xfce4.

It's exactly like food...some like a burger, some love pizza, another eat caviar to be snobby.

You happy?/jokingly

I edited my post to not have that relic of an adhd subject change mid writing a sentence. I can literally spend an hour thinking everything is wrong, or I get on with my life. I seriously felt bad about this one, which is why I did change it.

Btw upvote for calling out the poorly written sentence. No calling me the more stupider-est dumbdumb.

i know someone who rage-installed linux after windows did an update in the middle of them playing a competitive game

One tip I can give you is never skip shader compilation. If you do, then Vulkan compiles shaders on-the-fly which causes lag spikes and stuttering. If you let it compile then it pulls from a shader cache or RAM.

This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn't be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn't be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.

They know what they have to do. Bring Ballmer out of retirement!

Those are no longer being developed. OpenBSD is.