Ricing on Laptop

hi guys im back after like err… 3 years, honestly I dont know why I am back, i have jee in like… 240 days, I was redoing my Github Readme and everything when I remembered I had a blog… I am pretty sure nobody reads this shit anyways but I will continue writing, anyways back to topic. So anyone who runs Linux probably knows about “ricing”, I have seen a few pretty desktops on r/unixporn, but I will be honest, recently every other post is simply just an Anime Girl wallpaper with fancy color scheme with Hyprland or something(or the same clock widget if KDE). Well I wanted to make a pretty desktop for myself too, So I started cooking.

If I haven’t mentioned before… I am a huge fan of GNOME and Wayland, like they’re simply the best for what I have tried, I use an HP Pavilion Laptop with HiDPI display, not having fractional scaling already rejects a lot of options for me, only DE(or tiling window manager, whatever assume they are the same thing) that worked well on my laptop was Hyprland, KDE and GNOME. I did not try out Hyprland extensively, It simply didn’t make any sense to me, I already have a tiny 14 inch display(thus the title), not being able to stack windows on top of each other makes me less productive.

More Reasons Why GNOME is Best (IMO)

• Battery Life : Nobody ever says that GNOME will give the best battery life, but it’s absolutely insane, I got 9 hours of standby with GNOME!!!, 5 hours on KDE, didn’t even bother testing on Hyprland(sorry :p), which is higher than 8 hours on Windows 10 btw.

• Touchpad gestures : Touchpad gestures on GNOME are simply superior. I really love these touchpad gestures, I am pretty sure it exists in other DEs too but they simply aren’t well implemented for laptops (like on KDE it feels a bit rough and “janky”)

• Pretty!!!! : GNOME is simply so pretty, especially with extensions like Blur My Shell. Even though it eats a bit of RAM (tragic), but… come on, it’s too pretty and productive at the same time, it’s simply what I like

What would I use if I didn’t have a laptop?

I really liked Enlightenment DE, it’s a really good DE, only if it worked with fractional scaling it would be my daily driver (not that it’s cooler than GNOME :p)

Ricing on laptop is hard!!!

On r/unixporn you see people with thousands of windows open and it looks like some productive machine… but on laptop, a single fastfetch window and half of my wallpaper is covered 😹. It’s simply too hard to get those fancy shit they show on r/unixporn lol, and GNOME simply looks pretty, I tried Hyprland for some time, it felt like it either looked ugly or took too much screen space from my already scarce 14 inch display…

So uhh… that’s it, I am pretty sure nobody asked for it, but anyways