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tags : [linux, nixos, stylix]
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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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for its customizability. There, I settled on using
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involved the manual step of finding out where to put the generated files for
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each application I was using.
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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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in the form of so-called
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[ Flakes] ( https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/nixos-with-flakes/introduction-to-flakes ) .
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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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probably already style your entire desktop. And if it doesn't, you can just
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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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[ 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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time to compile.
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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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