The truth is that Ubuntu touch (and arguably luneOS) is the already daily driver ready fully open source gnu/Linux OS, we don’t have any real numbers on how many devices run ubuntu touch (as we don’t track anyone period) but based on the download numbers and people in our telegram channel, we definitely have well over 5000 active daily users![…]
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Sway. A Wayland replacement for the i3 window manager
The latest trends on *nixporn are tiling window managers, gaps between windows and rounded corners. So, the most used rice system to get a lot of ‘likes’ is using i3-gaps, a fork of i3 that provides gaps and, also, rounded corners for window rendering. Tiling window managers are popular lightweight alternatives to full desktop environments like KDE or GNOME, they[…]
Read morePaperWM. GNOME with scrollable tiling of windows
PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It’s inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. The basic idea of PaperWM is: you want to keep using Gnome (because all kinds of things Just Work in Gnome) but you also kinda wish you were using a tiling window manager. It’s a[…]
Read moreGrid Tiling. Not a tiling window manager like i3
i3 is the most famous tiling window manager designed for X11 and all the Linux people met him at least once in their life. It is fully configurable and it handles dynamically tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts. But the use of i3, or of another tiling window manager, for everyday use, is not for all. It is not easy at[…]
Read moreBliss OS. Android for your x86 personal computer
The project is an Android fork that aims to bring the beauty and the power of the phone/tablet system to the modern desktop and laptop PC. The ‘build’ and ‘alpha’ words should suffice to make you understand that it is absolutely not a software ready for everyday use. Better to abstain, especially if you don’t actually intend to develop –[…]
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