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## The Stylix Story
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### Configuration hellscape
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## Configuration hellscape
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What's a better time to waste your own time than to customize your desktop?
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Heck, there are entire communities like
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[Unixporn](https://lemmy.world/c/unixporn) based around this hobby. I myself
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have spent countless months on this, as far back as
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[Unixporn](https://lemmy.world/c/unixporn) based around this hobby. I have spent
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countless months on this myself, as far back as
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[my first post about custom setups](/blog/my-first-custom-linux-setup). It can
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be really fun at first, but after the honeymoon phase is over, it quickly
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becomes tiring. The hardest part for me has always been configuring color
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schemes, because manualy doing so was a lot of efford.
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be really fun at first, but it can quickly become tiring. The hardest part for
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me has always been configuring color schemes, because manualy doing so was too
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much manual efford.
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In the configuration from the aforementioned post, I used Arch, which is famous
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### Nix
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## Nix
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Nowadays, I'm not using Arch anymore. Instead I'm using another Linux-based
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operating system called NixOS. It is just as customizable as Arch, but it uses a
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### The solution
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## Stylix
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Bluntly put, [Stylix](https://stylix.danth.me) is just a Flake like every other
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Flake before it. But I think it's so much more, because it takes the core
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selling point of Nix and elevates it to another level! Similarily to Nix, Stylix
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takes your preferences and applies them anywhere you want. But Stylix does so
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with your styling preferences and to a variety of applications.
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Flake before it. But it can be so much more, because it takes the core selling
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point of Nix and elevates it to another level! Similarily to Nix, Stylix takes
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your preferences and applies them anywhere you want. But Stylix does so with
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your styling preferences and to a variety of applications.
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In contrast to the other tools I mentioned however, Stylix isn't just limited to
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And in contrast to the other tools I mentioned, Stylix isn't just limited to
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just color schemes: It can also do wallpapers, fonts and even icon packs. It
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doesn't even matter whether you're using GNOME, KDE, or Hyprland -- Stylix can
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## Try it yourself
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If you are now as hyped about Stylix as I am, just head over to its
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documentation on the
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If you want to give Stylix a try, just head over to its documentation on the
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[installation process](https://stylix.danth.me/installation.html). Vimjoyer has
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also made [a great video](https://youtu.be/ljHkWgBaQWU) covering this process.
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Additionally, Stylix provides [testbeds](https://stylix.danth.me/testbeds.html)
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This has been my first long-form blog post, so if you have any feedback or
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suggestions, make sure to [get in contact with me](/socials) until I implement a
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suggestions, make sure to [get in touch with me](/socials) until I implement a
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commenting feature :)

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