DMS is a pretty good gateway drug out of major DEs and into WMs like Niri. I had already started using Niri but the base DMS configuration has a lot more batteries included so I switched and so far haven't had any major complaints.
I've been really enjoying using DMS as a daily driver. I had been partial to Cosmic DE, but the overall visual appearance, pace of development, and ecosystem around DMS made me switch.
Haha, dude, the stuff we used to do when we were young. Transparent conky on the desktop showing a bunch of graphs that drive their own selves up. Spinning cubes to get workspaces. Loved it. And ran it on absolutely garbage hardware too.
It will always be uncool to do this stuff, and I will always be there for it.
a vibe-coded "shell", which is a term that has evolved to describe a suite of software that does all the desktop-environment stuff that you don't get when you use an X11 window manager or Wayland compositor that isn't part of a bigger desktop ecosystem.
It will always be uncool to do this stuff, and I will always be there for it.
[1]: github.com/zirconium-dev/zirconium
> DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5
From the home page:
> Dank Linux: Modern Desktop
Seems like an overall UI (user interface) framework for Linux Desktop.
Visit https://danklinux.com/ to learn more.