Don't fall for the tiling managers, I know they look pretty but they'll sink all your time and you'll never be satisfied. Trust me I've been there.
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Personally I hate tiling, I just want those cool closing and opening animations
If you use KDE, look for the "TV Glitch [burn-my-windows]" opening and closing animation. It's a default setting in the KDE Settings > Workspace behavior > Desktop effects > Window open/close animation section. It's really good in my opinion, especially if you tinker with the open/close timing to make it a little more crisp.
Idk I love hyprland. Maybe it’s not for everyone but there is no harm trying :)
Didn't mean no offence. If it works for you, great! But personally I got too into customisations and missed a lot of work which was the whole actual point, " productivity" lol. But damn did my setup look slick that week.
Partially true.. I've been using i3 for roughly 8 years so setup and usage is pretty dang quick these days. I'd say it's worth it if tiling piques your interest.
Took me a few goes here and there but now I love my minimal tiling setup. Never really got it but just played with them here and there out of curiosity. Last time I tried it something clicked for me and now I've no desire to go back.
Ain't that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don't have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.
Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop
Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling
The easiest step into this world is KDE. It has a store for users to share global themes, color themes, even sddm animations.
You can use kwin rules to send certain apps to certain desktops, start shaded, all sorts of fun stuff.
And then you can throw a tiling manager on top of that. If you want to use the control panel, you can install bismuth. If you're comfortable editing text files, awesome or i3 (but I have yet to go that far).
If you really want to go for it, hyperland looks incredible, but it is a lot of up front work.
This Lemmy community is a pretty good resource for inspiration, and sometimes you can snag animation or icon sources from the descriptions or comments. It's not super in depth on the how to end of it though.
What desktop do you use?
You'll want to decide on a desktop environment or window manager (or compositor). That'll be the biggest determining factor of what things will look like. From there, you'll want to either read the manual or arch wiki on how to customize the different aspects of it.
If you decide you want a tiling window manager, Hyprland is nice since you mentioned you wanted animations. But it's only recommended on rolling release distros at the moment. It also might not work well with Nvidia.
What kind of "app behaviour" customizations are you wanting to do? That sounds like it would be app-specific. My main form of app customization is to find ways to change the colour scheme (to fit everything else), and also to change the keybindings (I like using vim-like key bindings whenever reasonable)
Time to switch to Gentoo or Funtoo? That’s when you really start putting more pep in your step
On reddit a few days ago on r/archlinux there was a discussion about ricing being a racist term or not.
When the hell did "ricing" became racist to anyone? Stupid humans
Some people associate rice with Asians (which tbh to me feels sketchy in and of itself, but I digress) because they don't know it's an acronym (Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement) that is used as a perjorative against cars, regardless of race of driver or manufacterer of car, for "car with only cosmetic mods because it looks cool but no performance mods."
"Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement" sounds like a backronym to separate the modern term from its problematic history.
Wikipedia tells a slightly different story.
During the Korean and Vietnam wars, the term "rice burner" was used to refer to Koreans/Vietnamese (as in "machines that run on rice").
Around the same time, the term "rice burner" was also being used as a disparaging term to refer to Japanese-made cars and motorcycles.
Eventually, the term came to be heavily associated with a specific Japanese automotive style. "Ricing" started to mean modding vehicles according to that style. And then the term was brought to the Unix community through forums like this.
And this is where we get the modern usage.
So the term definitely started out as being both derogatory and specifically asian. But today, no one uses it like that. I think the history and context of this term is completely lost on most people.
Now when people use the term, the sentiment is neither derogatory nor specifically asian. So I don't think the common usage here in the Unix community is something to worry about.
Well the thing is I've only ever heard "Rice Burner" in Vietnam movies, never in reference to a car or linux. I think they're separate terms. I've always heard "Ricer" or "Rice Rocket" for cars, and like I said I have heard people use it racistly (I know that isn't a word but it is now because I said it) but I judge the individual, as I'm fairly certain the acronym is the correct origin.
I'm not one of those "you can never trust wikipedia" people, but they do sometimes get stuff wrong and this might be one.