Syncthing and Spotdl. Syncthing can sync folders over a network. Spotdl can download content from a playlist; it is multi-threaded and skips already existing or duplicate songs. It took me 20 minutes to automate everything. Syncthing and Spotdl start on startup and do their thing every 10 minutes.

You end up with a permanent small water mark on the bottom right-hand side of the screen as a reminder to activate. Currently, you can keep it like this indefinitely.

There are tricks to make the watermark invisible without activating Windows. It works just fine if Windows 10 is not your primary operating system and you don’t plan to personalize your operating system after fiddling around a bit just after you get it installed. You can personalize it for about a couple months before the activating logo shows up; at least that’s how I always experienced it.

I love it too. It’s pretty much Gruvbox.

Yes, I like text more than visual icons. More proof is given by the fact that I used words like cpu, mem, net over the thousands of icons I could’ve used instead, considering that the font I am using is a Nerd Font patched one.

I use JetBrains Mono font. I am not sure what you meant by font rendering, so if you’re interested, you can check my dotfiles.

I experienced this too. That’s why I stopped asking them anything after my first query (why my keybindings were not working when defined in another file) and relied on guess work. I also found the community kind of dead, so you don’t actually get the answers quicker than the guess work will get you there.

I had to look through the source code of their widgets (like wibox.widget.textclock, awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton) they use in their default config file to have a grasp of what’s happening. Looking through others’ dotfiles was more pain because it’s not supposed to be looked upon by the beginners, so they cram all they know in a few lines and leave you guessing.

You are correct.

Hi from feddit.nl 🙌!

I wonder what is its main selling point as a distro now though

I wanted to experience Arch and wanted something simple and quick (I was busy those days, so DIY Arch wasn’t a choice). I tried EndeavourOS, but it wasn’t simple, they make many configurations to the system which ruined the vanilla experience of all the WMs and DEs. I started looking for alternatives, I found Crystal to be attractive and well-maintained, so I went for it. I think it’s selling point is being simple and as friendly and vanilla as possible.

Of course! This is the original one. I used Photopea for it to meet my mood.

That is really pretty.

Thank you.

How did you achieve the floating bottom bar?

If you edit the bottom bar, under more options you can enable “Floating panel” to achieve this effect.

These twitter losers are annoying. Someone tell Elon to fix his damn platform.

There is an open issue on GitHub for this. You can try raising your voice there in hope of some update.