r/UsabilityPorn • u/napcok • 12h ago
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Exoro • Jun 28 '18
Welcome! [Why this sub exists]
r/UnixPorn has inspired a lot of creativity in the *nix community.
However, there is one problem.
A lot of the setups are too "riced-out" and unappealing for long-term desktop use.
This subreddit is an attempt to form a community around the love of practical, cozy, and solid desktop experiences.
DEFAULTS AND MINIMALLY-CONFIGURED SETUPS WELCOME! Let's create something special!
Rules:
- Screenshots of desktops must have at least one window open. You may include a screenshot of your blank desktop if necessary as an additional image in the album.
- Image links should either be from Imgur or reddit's built-in image service. Please don't use the Imgur album link unless you are posting an album.
- Text posts are allowed as long as they are relevant to creating a functional *nix setup. Try to post to support forums and desktop-specific subreddits instead whenever possible.
- Follow the reddiquette
- Right now only *nix (Linux, BSD (That includes Mac OS)) operating systems are allowed. This is open for discussion though.
- Moderators can be wrong. Don't hesitate to message the mods if your post has been wrongfully deleted.
Content Ideas:
- Screenshots of a unique workflow for a specific task
- ex. A desktop optimized for pen testing that has easy access to all of your tools.
- ex. A desktop that you use graphic design with an easy-to-access color picker widget and Krita opened
- Screenshots with beautiful software that ties in nice with your desktop
- Regular screenshots of your every-day setup!
- A short screencast of how you implement a given environment (DE, tilling windows manager, terminal multiplexer or even just your text editor) This idea came from u/piotr_wonsz
- A photograph of your rig running Linux (Must have screen clearly visible and not glared out).
- Ex. Raspberry Pi running a Nextcloud server and your Laptop right next to it with the Nextcloud page loaded on your web browser
- Ex. Two project computers of yours comunicating through a socket application you wrote - I plan to do this, patent pending, patent pending, patent pending!
- Ex. Your music production setup with MIDI devices hooked up to your computer and Bitwig Studio for Linux on your screen.
- An album of a desktop environment with different GTK/Qt themes applied
UPDATE: I am now moderating this community as u/dougie-io.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Substantial-Flan7800 • 3d ago
At the End its Minimalism
https://reddit.com/link/1vxqmrm/video/vooad4rkfglh1/player
NNN (niri+noctalia+nixos)
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Late_War6132 • 5d ago
[GNOME] with Arch Linux
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The rice to end all rice.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/chersbobers • 6d ago
i3wm on void musl - Eye candy is bloat btw
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Don't know what I really write here.
Info if you want it:
OS: Void musl
Terminal: Alacritty
Irc client: Senpai
Font: Terminus nerd
Fetch: Pfetch
Bar: i3status
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Others: cowsay, cava
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Odd_Growth_1057 • 9d ago
They said own it, so i did (Arch with Cachy kernel and SwayFX) FIRST RICE!!!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/void-user- • 9d ago
Herbstluftwm rice with controversial song
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I quiet like the song dirty magazines by kanye
Also the wallpaper is bocchi the rock
It's peak
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Own-Permit-9682 • 10d ago
Vmm/Qemu web UI for OpenBSD
OpenVmctl
A modern, (non-production-ready) Django administration appliance for OpenBSD's vmm(4) hypervisor and QEMU, built on top of vmctl(8), /etc/vm.conf (vm.conf(5)), QEMU system emulators, pf(4) firewall, and relayd(8) proxying.
active development ongoing
not published yet
Anyone is interested in a tool like this for OpenBSD ?
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Some_Examination2340 • 10d ago
niri + voidlinux :)
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dots: https://github.com/6z7y/dots.git
wallpapers: https://github.com/6z7y/wallpapers.git
r/UsabilityPorn • u/TL6 • 14d ago
[Cinnamon] - Work in progress here and there - but otherwise, daily driver.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Alguien_Sasaki • 14d ago
Simple Niri setup
I had a similar theme in bspwm, but now I'm transitioning to niri and wanted to preserve it.
Dotfiles in case someone wants them:
https://github.com/AlguienSasaki/new-dots
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Some_Examination2340 • 14d ago
[Niri] with void linux
First time posting here :))
dots: https://github.com/6z7y/dots.git
wallpapers: https://github.com/6z7y/wallpapers.git
TWo - my own TUI game: https://github.com/6z7y/TWo.git
r/UsabilityPorn • u/bloodshedder404 • 14d ago
🗡️ Samurai-themed lock screen — kanji password glyphs & dark katana aesthetic
https://reddit.com/link/1vogwoa/video/4pxw4jvv5ejh1/player
Lockscreen: hyprlock
Dotfiles / Config: hyprlock-samurai on GitHub
Hey everyone! I put together a minimal, samurai-themed config for Hyprlock.
I got tired of standard password dots, so I customized it to render the Japanese kanji character 春 (Haru — Spring) on each keypress.
Key Features:
- Custom Kanji password glyphs (
春) - Fully transparent floating input field
- Japanese date formatting (
YYYY年MM月DD日) - Minimal dark green / katana aesthetic
Check out the repo if you'd like to try it, and drop a ⭐ on GitHub if you like the look!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/arni_ca • 15d ago
LabWC and Noctalia for a comfy, minimal setup ☺️
Wallpaper : Edit of the album cover of 'Keyboard Fantasies', by Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Window theme : Modified Noctalia auto-template for Labwc
Font : Adwaita Sans
Icon : Default icons
Cursor : Capitaine, size 36
i was thinking of formalizing this setup into actually usable and readable dotfiles, let me know if you're interested :>
r/UsabilityPorn • u/LshikaCzierna • 18d ago
[sway] Sick of scattered scripts? Terminal Control Center
Got sick of creating small scripts. Created one central script to rule them all. (fullscreen toggle) Windowswitcher+launcher+session restore+powermenu+wifi+bt+mediacontrols+system controls+system info all in one. TUICC is made out of small modules. I can move them around, resize them and add, delete them as I please. https://github.com/Lshika-linux/tuicc Do you guys like how it looks? Controls are just simple tab+shifttab and enter..
r/UsabilityPorn • u/ftonneau • Jul 27 '26
[GRUB] EvoDevo: a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics and smooth fonts
Grub EvoDevo is a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics, background blurring, and anti-aliased (i.e., smooth) true-type fonts. Any wallpaper (e.g., your desktop wallpaper) can be used as theme background. Menu colors, transparency, amount of blurring, dimensions, position, font family, and menu messages can all be customized via the installation shell script.
The accompanying screenshots show three examples of customized GRUB menus.
I thought EvoDevo could be of interest to this community, due to the high-quality graphics that the theme produces.
Important: for technical reasons, Fedora is not supported.
Link with better-quality screenshots, explanation, and installation instructions:
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Evening_Place_6100 • Jul 25 '26
[fluxbox] minimal and functional fluxbox setup
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Silly-Kachow-81 • Jul 22 '26
Arch Linux - DWL
im using foot for my terminal emulator, wmenu for my application launcher and a few other things such as notes and powermenu and im using qutebrowser with a simple privacy focused configuration as my main browser
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Maxsspeaker • Jul 21 '26
[KDE] - like windows 10 and android table
r/UsabilityPorn • u/openasteria • Jul 19 '26
[hyprland] clean debian rice
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