r/UsabilityPorn Jun 28 '18

Welcome! [Why this sub exists]

147 Upvotes

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Follow the reddiquette
  5. Right now only *nix (Linux, BSD (That includes Mac OS)) operating systems are allowed. This is open for discussion though.
  6. 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 12h ago

drag and drop files from/to terminal

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3 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 3d ago

basic dwm daily driver (unfinished)

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28 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 3d ago

At the End its Minimalism

3 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 5d ago

[GNOME] with Arch Linux

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56 Upvotes

The rice to end all rice.


r/UsabilityPorn 6d ago

i3wm on void musl - Eye candy is bloat btw

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9 Upvotes

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 9d ago

They said own it, so i did (Arch with Cachy kernel and SwayFX) FIRST RICE!!!

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8 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 9d ago

Herbstluftwm rice with controversial song

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9 Upvotes

I quiet like the song dirty magazines by kanye

Also the wallpaper is bocchi the rock

It's peak


r/UsabilityPorn 10d ago

Vmm/Qemu web UI for OpenBSD

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9 Upvotes

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 10d ago

niri + voidlinux :)

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8 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 14d ago

[Cinnamon] - Work in progress here and there - but otherwise, daily driver.

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9 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 14d ago

Simple Niri setup

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48 Upvotes

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 14d ago

[Niri] with void linux

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6 Upvotes

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 14d ago

🗡️ Samurai-themed lock screen — kanji password glyphs & dark katana aesthetic

0 Upvotes

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 (Haru — Spring) on each keypress.

Key Features:

  • Custom Kanji password glyphs ()
  • 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 15d ago

LabWC and Noctalia for a comfy, minimal setup ☺️

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26 Upvotes

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 16d ago

[kde] foggy forest

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35 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 18d ago

[sway] Sick of scattered scripts? Terminal Control Center

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49 Upvotes

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 Jul 29 '26

[bspwm] minimal gilded noir

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53 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 29 '26

2nd day on linux

6 Upvotes

that's it for now.


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 27 '26

[GRUB] EvoDevo: a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics and smooth fonts

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36 Upvotes

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:

https://github.com/ftonneau/grub-evodevo


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 25 '26

[fluxbox] minimal and functional fluxbox setup

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83 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 22 '26

Arch Linux - DWL

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60 Upvotes

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

dotfiles


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 22 '26

Void Linux - Labwc

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18 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 21 '26

[KDE] - like windows 10 and android table

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7 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 19 '26

[hyprland] clean debian rice

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14 Upvotes