About this episode

The episode discusses the rise of Quickshell and its impact on customizable Linux desktops.

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment. Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop. end-4’s configuration Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH omacom/omarchy - Github The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News Omacom Foundation to be exclusive…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Fisher

Topics covered

• Linux desktops
• customizable environments
• community plugins
• Wayland compositors
• funding in open source

Keywords

• Quickshell
• Linux
• Wayland
• customization
• open source
• desktop environment
• plugins

Sponsors

Jupiter Party, Managed Nebula

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Omacom Foundation

Products: Quickshell, Managed Nebula, Hyprland, Waybar, Omarchy, Home Assistant

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