I am in Search of the best looking linux music player, currently using strawberry, it works but it ain't that beautiful, i am seeking for some apple music level or higher

Orbit Wallpaper Engine v0.1.0 is here!

TL;DR: GLSL Shader Wallpapers for your desktop environment.

- Animated Intro and Exit commands
- GUI Settings Panel with control over animation speed and intro/exit curves
- Colour Remapping (with palette strength control)
- In app access to the repository of KDE Shader Wallpapers (https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper)

Hey all! A few days ago I posted my WIP rice in Hyprland using Noctalia and a custom GLSL shader wallpaper that I vibecoded. A lot of people asked for my dots, but more specifically people wanted the wallpaper and wanted to know how to achieve login and logout animations.

As a result things kinda ran away from me, I got really excited, and I basically scope creeped myself into a corner. I wasn't really prepared to share my dots at that point, and unfortunately I'm still not - but I've been building something a bit bigger than my initial plan just because I've been having so much fun.

So, whilst I'm still working on the more ambitious project, I got the shader wallpaper to a place where poeple can start to have some fun with it.

https://github.com/CleanShirtUK/orbit-wallpaper-engine

Note: this is eeeearly. I've run clean install tests on my machine but I don't have another machine available to test on. Proceed at your own risk!

Also... snuck in a little sneak peak of something else I've been working on as part of the bigger shell project at the end.

NOTE: Substantial AI usage made this happen. More details in the github.

flow just hit 0.2.0, and it's the biggest update since launch. A quick recap for anyone new here: flow is a real time terminal bandwidth monitor with Braille grid waveforms, spring smoothed numbers, and glowing borders that react to traffic load.

What's new

Throughput values now actually use the spring physics the README always claimed. Numbers glide toward their targets instead of snapping, which sounds small but changes how the whole dashboard feels under load.

The ping target is now configurable. It defaulted to 1.1.1.1 and had no way to change it. Now you can set ping_target in the config or pass --ping on the command line if you want to check latency against your own gateway or a different host entirely.

There's a new streaming JSON mode. --json-stream writes one JSON object per line to stdout, continuously, so you can pipe flow into whatever else you're building. This was the most requested feature since --json and --once shipped.

Daily totals now survive restarts. They get written to ~/.config/flow/stats.json on quit and reloaded on the next launch, so closing your terminal doesn't wipe out the day's numbers anymore.

Themes are no longer limited to the 8 built in ones. Drop a .toml file into ~/.config/flow/themes/ and flow picks it up automatically at startup. Full control over colors and gradients if the defaults don't match your setup.

There's also a public roadmap now (ROADMAP.md) laying out where 0.2.x through 0.5.x are headed, and test coverage got a real pass, especially around the spring animation math and the history persistence round trip.

Since the last big writeup

If you've been following along, a lot happened between 0.1.1 and 0.1.7 too: a theme selector, bits/sec toggle, live ping indicator, a network processes panel, an interface details overlay, reset confirmation to stop accidental data loss, and a full typography and spacing pass that gave the whole UI a much more deliberate hierarchy. 0.2.0 is really the point where all of that groundwork turns into new capability instead of polish.

Usage

flow                        # hero view, auto interface
flow --compact               # numbers only
flow --tiny                  # tmux status bar
flow --json-stream            # continuous JSON Lines, new in 0.2.0
flow --ping 8.8.8.8            # custom ping target, new in 0.2.0

Install / upgrade

go install github.com/programmersd21/flow/cmd/flow@latest

Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows are on the releases page. Config and theme files are backward compatible, nothing to migrate.

Links

Source, changelog, and roadmap: https://github.com/programmersd21/flow

Appreciate everyone who's been using flow and sending feedback, it's shaped most of what shipped in this release. If it felt cool, a star on the repo goes a long way.

Just did a new install on my 'littlebeast'pc, added xfce4 to bunsenlabs and it runs great!

And so, my OS mimicry series continues. My Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with GNOME 50 now thinks it's macOS 27 Golden Gate.

The liquid glass effect is part of the original Blur My Shell extension.

https://github.com/aunetx/blur-my-shell

I also made use of Kiwi (is no Apple) and the Kiwi menu.

The GTK theme comes from the great Vince Luis:

https://github.com/vinceliuice/MacTahoe-gtk-theme

The desktop widgets are the Gridgets:

https://github.com/rebatnaath/gridgets

Pretty much everything in my setup is used, The external monitor, the mic and the headphones are used, headphones but work great nonetheless and im pretty satisfied with the workflow I can achieve with this setup :)

I wanted to say that I recently completely erased my old partition of Windows, moved completely to Debian, its an amazing operating system. The stability that I heard of is so real. Everything just works.

I recently saw Omakub and took some inspiration to make that my own, that's the most amazing thing about linux, you can make everything your own or use it as is, its so cool.

I adapted the same config files for Debian, updating some apps and made some albeit small improvements if I might say so myself.

Repo is here if anyone wants to recreate it, it requires 'non free' packages to be enabled in Debian.

Check it out here: https://github.com/prithvijitguha/omadebian

So a few days ago i switched from windows 10 to Fedora Linux and i wanted to use a rice i really loved but sadly There was no Fedora supported version of it. So i decided to do it myself

https://github.com/tarbai771/sidera-shell

WM: Niri

Terminal: Foot

Bar: Waybar

Launcher: Fuzzel

Shutdown Menu & File Search: Fuzzel

Code Editor: Neovim

Hey everyone!

This is my first proper rice project. I wanted the focused and cohesive feel of Omarchy, but I also wanted to use Niri and shape the desktop around my own workflow.

The result is nbShell, a custom desktop shell built with Quickshell specifically for Niri. It is heavily inspired by Omarchy’s visual language and workflows. I adapted some ideas and components from that ecosystem, while adding my own design, integrations and interaction patterns.

The interface follows a terminal-inspired style: monospace typography, compact layouts, thin borders and colors that communicate state instead of being purely decorative. I wanted everything to feel like one coherent system rather than a collection of unrelated utilities.

Some of the things currently included:

- Custom bar with freely arranged widgets

- Dashboard for calendar, weather, media and system information

- Launcher, notifications and clipboard history

- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio and device controls

- Theme and wallpaper integration

- Tiling-oriented menus and keyboard workflows

- Zen Browser picture-in-picture controls

- AI-agent and usage integrations

- Custom lock-screen and screensaver experiments

- A lot of smaller tools tailored to my daily setup

Omarchy provided much of the original inspiration, but nbShell has gradually developed its own identity. Niri’s scrolling layout also pushed me toward different workspace and navigation ideas than I would have used with a traditional tiling compositor.

It is still a personal and evolving project, so there are rough edges and many things I want to improve. But it has reached the point where I use it daily, and I thought it would be fun to share it here.

I would really appreciate feedback—especially from other Niri users. What works visually, what feels too busy, and what would you change?

Built on Arch Linux with Niri and Quickshell, and AI ;)

For those who love these old Debian classics, I have reimagined on of the best: Spacefun and made an Arch edition that you can download if you want it.

Excied to see if anyone makes something cool with this as a base.

Have a nice day!