ChadWM - Suckless Rice For The Modern Man

[@williamviloria]

Mental Outlaw is back to his roots

[@ヽノ-u4t]

but not wlroots

[@xtwfoo]

​@@ヽノ-u4tlol

[@repairstudio4940]

​@@ヽノ-u4t 😂🎉

[@w花b]

a quick sudo should fix that

[@Epic6000-e6x]

test

[@siduck_og]

thanks for showing it! Creator of Nvchad and chadwm here :D

[@johnxina1681]

thanks for your work

[@abdullahmertozdemir9437]

You are the goat. Chadlinux when?

[@gustavojoaquin_arch]

Based ⚡🗿

[@ChristianGeske-yn3mr]

Haven’t used chadwm but I really appreciate what you did with nvchad

[@rubyciide5542]

The chad himself

[@ScaryHutmanPictures]

Everything converges to KDE eventually

[@occultsupport]

and then xfce

[@bacalhau_seco]

kinda, i mean KDE provides (imo) the best desktop experience conpared to any other DE or even OSes like windows and macos. But sometimes WMs are very usefull and do save you some time, i personally use both at the same time, and then i change between them after rebooting

[@Ralzone]

​@@bacalhau_seco Idk, it really depends on what system you're using, for desktop users KDE is the way to go, but if you're on a laptop, I'd say Gnome has been such a great experience.

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

KDE 🤮 I like XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie. Gnome with extensions can be okay-ish

[@MithicSpirit]

kind of ironic that suckless tries to minimize bloat, but most/all of their stuff only runs on X.

[@tylerdean980]

Of course. Name a Wayland environment lighter than half the x window managers that don't have to have a compositor built in. My pentium 3 isn't running hyprland or dwl, it's running dwm. Without compositing because flashy=slow

[@D0J0P]

@@tylerdean980 Is DWM lighter than DWL? I never tried it.

[@tylerdean980]

@@D0J0P sure, dwm is just a window manager. Dwl is a window manager and a compositor. Though, dwl is probably the lightest Wayland environment I can think of.

[@robotron1236]

Wayland just isn't there yet and I would NEVER consider Wayland suckless, because suck is all Wayland does.

[@sjalvmordsvalsen]

Remember that the same people who defined suckless, are the same ones who like using GLib applications.

[@muhdiversity7409]

Every chad that was locked down by a WhaMen knows exactly what suckless means.

[@astroid99]

😢

[@robotron1236]

That was the one thing my ex was good with. We did it at least once a day. She was a complete sociopath though, she even tried to stab me a couple of times. The crazy ones are always FANTASTIC in bed.

[@binku09]

😢

[@axjkhl7699]

😢

[@seeingblind2]

😢

[@Neon-Grim]

Ricing your WM of choise for the first time is one of the best feelings. After I got into Nixos, I created my first proper hyprland rice using home manager. Now both my system and rice are declaratively condigured, allowing me to regen my build with a single command. Glorious. Before trying out nixos, I didnt really try ricing, since I didnt really like having Different syntax for every dotfile, but with nixos thats no longer an issue.

[@Julio860JVL]

Attempt # 7. Trying to get your attention to check your microphone because your S letters sound like a sword cutting something.

[@RT-qd8yl]

Bump

[@murzilkastepanowich5818]

hecking upvoted redditor "...ones like pSyduck St which he callS the Snazzy terminal it's Suckless pluS beautiful..." aaand my ears are bleeding

[@danni222]

I am updooooting

[@gebruiker8453]

bump

[@comradepeter87]

I must've gone deaf because I used to notice this for a LOT of YTbers, and now it doesn't bother me/catch my attention.

[@gutter_onion7855]

back when I was using Xorg and i3, arandr was a fecking GODSEND. Love that program. The fact it saves your config as a script is amazing.

[@robotron1236]

I use i3 and never knew about arandr until a few weeks ago, so I just wrote a script to handle my monitors and stuff. Xrandr isn't that bad, so I just never sought out a GUI for it. Like that didn't even cross my mind. That's the cool thing about i3, there's so much info out there for configuration and stuff like that. It also just works; ever since I got rid of my DE (Plasma), I haven't had a single crash. I have XFCE now, but only downloaded it for the software that comes with it. I kinda like having a decent base to work from, even if it is a little bit of bloat and Plasma just didn't mesh with i3 like XFCE's software does.

[@binary_galaxies]

9 seconds thats wild

[@Cypekeh]

9 seconds without a suck?

[@occultsupport]

it's all over the screen.. couldn't even edge

[@praetorangel]

I love suckless-tools. Launching everything from dmenu-run is really satisfying.

[@whiteguardist]

dmenu is the only good tool they make

[@vonweiss7149]

All ricecels gonna flok to it

[@Xaito]

You bet I will.

[@Simte]

We never left.

[@aflury]

Great now I need to check my config files for buffer overflows.

[@RT-qd8yl]

I don't really understand what I'm watching yet but I'm hoping to persevere and learn something 😀

[@noisetide]

If I had such a rice then I would cook it in a rice cooker with nix flakes to perfection.

[@hubble5703]

Awesome video! Am gonna tell all my friends about this :33

[@ISprayTrolls]

126Gb of Ram and 63 CPU Cores? What are you doing with that scraping all of Tor?

[@RT-qd8yl]

He's building an AI Kenny

[@xxxent]

still can't run cyberpunk at 60fps without frame gen.

[@iiisaac1312]

You better not be one of those optiplexpilled unemployedcels questioning a man spending his money on his compilechad.

[@xair0_]

Its 128GB of ram and 64 threads (32 cores). But the question stay the same... he was using gentoo so maybe for compiling purposes?

[@hetmanfoko]

@@xair0_ nah you need more than that to compile gentoo :trol:

[@JackedLinuxUser]

Finally the WM I were looking for.

[@pixelbucket8884]

I saw this video's title while half asleep and had to do a triple take.

[@sdovhfunlahsvisegbakshfjbs4621]

I will have to unsuck the window spacing/padding stuff completely before I spend any more time playing around with these nice things

[@perpetualcollapse]

I already spent a lot of time learning LARBS DWM config lol. Looks cool though.

[@ndrechtseiter]

HELL YEAH! LINUX VIDEOS!

[@13thravenpurple94]

Brilliant video! Thanks a ton 👍

[@Xaito]

I've used qtile for a while after switching to Linux from Windows and really liked it. I've had some issues with some software struggling with drop down menus etc with the tiling so I eventually decided to give Gnome a try. Also tried hyprland but couldn't get it set up to behave as well as qtile did and still had some wayland issues. Guess I might as well use this video as inspiration to try out DWM.

[@masterbasher9542]

I liked the video the moment I saw it.

[@gladwinmohlamonyane4033]

Just ran this after seeing your video. It actually looks good, I just wish it had good EWHM support so Java GUI apps aren't going to look good. That being said, this is really cool

[@D0J0P]

Kenny is gonna shoot the number of DWM downloads way up. Also, thought you were on DWL now. I guess Wayland isn't there yet?

[@johngleeson7919]

As much as i love all this ricing, i can never remember all the changes i make. Spend hours configuring keymaps - forget them almost instantly.

[@ezu5131]

I think some keymap manager is perfectly appropriate for environments like dwm. But that would be le bloat. It's why I can't use it for anything productive. Shortcuts being hard coded seems like an anti pattern. Cosmic DE (System76) seems to be the closest to a natively tiling WM with full desktop environment configuration, but it's currently in Alpha

[@dadudeme]

Dash is probably required because some part is posix shell. Dash is the most common implementation of a strict posix shell.

[@ashley-m2k5m]

It's sooo nice 😍

[@megasmidge2911]

Just when I thought I escaped back to Debian // Kde. You brought me back. Better hit up my 2nd hand laptop “dealer”

[@comosaycomosah]

lmao there we go! also you posted this at the perfect time tbh also where that microsoft logo at 1:33 come from

[@d.bannings]

might use it under nixos

[@ihavescoliosi.s]

No one asked tho.

[@Luzum]

@@ihavescoliosi.s ironic

[@peterjansen4826]

I am not a fan of that floating panel but he does show that you don't need more than xsetroot and some font to make it look attractive. I have been using dwm, patched by me, for years but I will take a look at his config to see what he does.

[@thomasbuihere]

siduck really carried the whole modern suckless

[@BunnyKhatri-pd8zm]

Thanks!!

[@MattiasA-t5l]

The dash requirement is probably that it is installed, not that it is your default shell, that would be odd.

[@buddha6659]

Man I really want this. Sucks I'm stuck with a windows system right now. I'm crying.

[@0xslayy]

W video twin

[@stage6fan475]

algorithm. Sounds like you are really enjoying yourself this episode.

[@-kekmacska-48]

on most window managers, from the better type lets you use them without any nerd font, by directly writing emojis instead of unicode characters into the config file. I did just that with starship in termux

[@nandoxus]

As a member of the chad council I approve of this level of chadness.

[@forex252]

BRO'S USING VOID LINUX LET'S GO!!!

[@b0ba_884]

Based

[@Luda_is_taken.Try_Ludoed228]

bloat has fallen

[@oniondesu9633]

dwm is the one thing i miss since moving to wayland.

[@Krems_]

Yo you should make a video on the honey controversy it’s pretty insane

[@FloatingWeeds2]

Can you do a video where you go over your entire personally preferred tech stack with a backup secondary you also like? I'm going to buy a new ultra long battery life Ultrabook in the $1500-2500 range and want some great hardware stack and software stack recommendations.

[@bernd32]

The naming is so cringy.

[@_modiX]

Oh look, it's siduck, creator of NvChad. :D

[@godnyx117]

Finally! A DWM configuration for people who haven't touched a woman since the day they were born!

[@pherlos02]

Next Video: Mental Outlaw installing gentoo + ChadWM

[@ImperiumLibertas]

Suckless software falls short because it requires you to modify code to change basic settings. I do not want to have to configure my applications in code. The idea of making software patchable as a first class citizen is great and should be the norm but configuration should be done in config files.

[@robotron1236]

Well yeah, if you don't want or don't know how to do that, of course you wouldn't like it. Suckless isn't for the average person, it's for the person who knows how to read code. People who don't want to change things in code aren't its "target market."

[@ImperiumLibertas]

@@robotron1236 I'm a software engineer for nearly 10 years. For me, it's not about know how. It's about not wanting to unnecessarily overcomplicate what should be a simple process. Just make it read from a file and call it a day. Making compilation required for configuration is unnecessary and tedious. Now I have to setup auto builds if I want quick iteration instead of just having it hold a socket to the files contents.

[@danni222]

you need to go back😅

[@maruseu]

@@ImperiumLibertas what do you mean? you put it in a while loop and now you have "quick iteration". compilation takes less than 1 sec

[@ImperiumLibertas]

@@maruseu it's the fact I have to compile at all instead of just loading the file as its written to or having a single command to refresh the config. If you recompile you have to restart dwm for the config to take effect. It's entirely automatable, which is what I did, but I found it unnecessarily complicated for something that is not even a primary feature of the program. I use hyprland now which is a much better experience although the config is terrible in its own ways. I disagree with the philosophy that by adding a configuration file outside of the compiled language makes the program suck. The suckless devs were trying to avoid having to dictate a way to handle configuration and somehow found the only way to make configuring the software more inconvenient somehow.

[@jabrowski_]

That's one heck of a rice bruh

[@Saganax]

u plan on covering the lockbit dev getting arrested yesterday?

[@UndercoverNormie]

We busting out the Thinkpad W541 boys

[@Wzeyisbacklmao]

Mental outlaw, youtube sync has stopped on odysee. This means your video is not seen on odysee as of now. If you see this message, please begin manually uploading your videos to odysee. Thank you

[@centralintelligenceagency6825]

Luke Smith uses Waylon now

[@TheBigLou13]

Good stuff

[@bottering_one]

insane

[@samjiman]

Running on a Threadripper? Nice.

[@gachikuku]

went back on using X?

[@TomasGonzalez-z6p]

finally this type of content again, i'm a bit tired of tech news lol

[@tomasz9429]

I feel young again...

[@YrmiZ]

It looks nice and all but what is that 99% of these rices have to look like a christmas trees with RGB-colors all over the place? :D

[@giridharpavan1592]

norman osborn : what?

[@yt-sweety]

check duskwm from the guy who made dwm flexipatch

[@jayrollo1352]

Chad!

[@onelifepillow]

I guess I have to figure out what dwm is.

[@paodelodeovar7052]

when are you blessing us with your config on your git?

[@GabrielLima-gz8zg]

Awesomewm for me is still the best of all

[@J3dotgg]

We are so back

[@peterjansen4826]

xset r rate, I used it for years. I play RTS games so I need it. Though I put it a bit sharper than 200 ms (155) and a bit higher than 50 (70). It is incredibly useful for text editors too. I can't stand the default repeat delay and repeat rate, those suck.

[@Wregst3]

damn since when do you post so much?!?!

[@laughingvampire7555]

so basically patching suckless projects into bloat

[@seansingh4421]

Maybe I like my Linux Datacenter shape …..I like my Linux Thicc Bruh . Stop Package Shaming 😂😂😂

[@napalegeK]

those wallpaper... windows-tan😢😢

[@prajhualak]

Man this guy has 64 cores, 128gigs memory and three monitors.. Idk what he does with that

[@claasschlueter]

It would be even better if the monitors were not low resolution. But I'll take everything else if he doesn't need it anymore.

[@claasschlueter]

@tristen_grant I've been using a 2560x1600 display for several years now and am very happy with it. When using monitors with only FHD resolution, I feel uncomfortable. To each their own. Ultimately, it's just what you like best.

[@claasschlueter]

@tristen_grant I've been using a 2560x1600 display for several years now and am very happy with it. When using monitors with only FHD resolution, I feel "uncomfortable" and tired quickly. But it also comes down to the size. To each their own. Ultimately, it's just what you like best.

[@pajeetsingh]

Been using dwm for 10 years.

[@leapbtw]

MO i think it would be really chad if i could buy a hoodie from europe, maybe with some of your favourite orange digital cash :(

[@maxgreene]

Might be time to switch back to dwm from hyprland after this

[@calholli]

Tag preview.. It's like task bar, only..... umm. It's like task bar

[@whiteguardist]

why would you be excited about an xorg setup in 2025? it's irrelevant that it might be more suckless out of the box, because when ricing, you are going to add a compositor anyway and be less smooth than something like sway.

[@johnxina1681]

more linux videos please

[@Bartweenius-Jaroofenzsteinkle]

what do you think will happen to librewolf when firefox dies after mozilla runs out of money?

[@le-jesuve]

hell yeah, dwm is the shit

[@romolmb8180]

Please make a vid on the honey coupon finder scam

[@lockheartmac]

man i just started on linux and all this shit is way over my head

[@josvandenanjerklucht]

how about PGDwn? if you need to go to the bottom of a document/file

[@siduck_og]

btw install iosevka font so bar fonts look better or change bar font

[@RealHubertCZGameplayLetsPlay]

So its like dwm but without the good stuff about dwm? for begginers is i3 better anyway

[@catsspat]

「ウィンドウズ」is literally "Windows"

[@JackMeadows6322]

I should use ChadWM considering I'm a Chad.

[@sillysimon7889]

To be honest, having to recompile something every time I change the config sucks more to me. I don't think that's the toolset for me

[@CJ123]

Your not compiling the Linux kernel it takes a second to compile.

[@smorrow]

What are you all changing the config so much for anyway?

[@Proferk]

What cursor theme are you using?

[@polhikkii]

I miss dwm but switching to wayland forced me to change =(. Sway is not bad tho.

[@jcutfiend]

theres a wayland fork of dwm called dwl, not as fleshed out and stable as dwm, but it works well enough rn

[@polhikkii]

@jcutfiend couldn't run it :(

[@RealHubertCZGameplayLetsPlay]

sway is great imho, and when you install i3a package to use tiling mode like dwm its perfect.

[@jcutfiend]

@ no real reason to run sway when you can just run hyprland, turn off blur and animations, and have a faster, smaller footprint wm, that has options for eyecandy if you eventually want it. hyprland kinda beats it out the park unless you specifically want i3 style manual tiling.

[@polhikkii]

hyprland deosn't run =(. After installing the void package, it just returns that it couldn't find the exe =(. I eventually just learned to add transparency and blur to sway. ​@@jcutfiend

[@hv4329]

Dwl video when?

[@-kekmacska-48]

editing c source code directly instead of a config file or a manager app sounds really masochistic

[@pikaporeon]

Suckless needs to get their shit to Wayland

[@pewdiepiezzzzz124]

chad