DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released

dgunay 4 hours ago |

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.

arrakeen 7 hours ago |

despite how cringe everything about this is, i'll support anything that gets young people using linux

arikrahman 5 hours ago | |

I agree, I switched to noctalia so I get all the performance benefits without the baggage of telling people I use Dank

farresito 3 hours ago | | |

Noctalia will soon release v5, which is a complete rewrite in C++, which makes it even more appealing if you care about the performance.

mmgutz 1 hour ago | | |

DMS | super heavyweight | sluggish | lots of eye candy, GUI configurable

Noctalia | welterweight | fast | professional look, GUI configurable

Waybar | lightweight | fast | minimal, DIY theming, hand configured

swaybar | flyweight | blazingly fast | ultra minimalist, hand configured

Noctalia uses about 70MB more RAM, and a little more CPU than Waybar. No brainer.

arikrahman 17 minutes ago | | |

With v5 I wouldn't be surprised if they can even slim it down more than waybar. No dependency to worry about unlike waybar with gtk core.

arikrahman 3 hours ago | | |

Yes, I'm on the beta of v5 and it works flawlessly

arjie 4 hours ago | |

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.

butlike 2 hours ago | | |

The cube window space switcher was awesome. My friend Alex had that. The conky graphs dude. Why would you not want to see up-to-the-second disk I/O?

dangrover 4 hours ago |

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.

antihero 6 hours ago |

The margins/padding on stuff and the sizing is very haphazard.

preisschild 6 hours ago |

I've been trying Zirconium[1] (a fedora atomic-based bootable container image with niri+dms) since a few weeks ago, works really well. Can recommend.

[1]: github.com/zirconium-dev/zirconium

arikrahman 5 hours ago | |

What's the benefit to using this over Nix flakes

stonogo 5 hours ago | | |

not having to learn what Nix flakes are is a pretty big plus

arikrahman 3 hours ago | | |

That sounds like a pretty big minus. Not hard to learn with LLMs doing everything. Pretty easy to replicate dotfiles with flakes that's why most of them use it. Since you claim it's a benefit, but I've already learned it, no point to using this. Seems like a worse docker.

actionfromafar 8 hours ago |

What is a DMS?

zamalek 1 hour ago | |

In Linux you generally have two types of desktops: DEs, which are full featured (KDE, GNOME, Cosmic, Cinnamon, etc.), and window managers. Window managers do only what they say on the tin, if you used one with genuinely no config (they usually have minor defaults to prevent this) you would be completely soft-locked: an empty desktop just a cursor to play with, no way to launch apps, nothing.

They have a special layer into which apps can spawn windows that typically do things like adding a launcher, or an app switcher, notifications, or whatever else you want. It's the unix philosophy brought to the UI domain. Usually you have a separate app for each, but DMS brings in a full suite: allowing you to use the window manager without having to spend hours ricing your system.

neogodless 8 hours ago | |

From the link:

> 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.

stonogo 8 hours ago | |

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.