How I make Windows look good

[@Duke_Zyx]

bros using the windows fork of linux

[@musprodev]

Real 😭

[@saiba-b7l]

😂😂😂

[@ZenityStudios]

nice logo

[@im_andrei1010]

naaahhh 😭

[@statxs]

lmao

[@sargo92]

Tiling 'Windows' manager.

[@ReinierButot]

i leave all my programs maximized and instantly switch between them using the win+number shortcuts . switching programs is muscle memory now. no need for win+tabbing to search for anything. the number in the shortcut correlates to the order of the pinned programs on the taskbar. just win+4 and boom im in my terminal. win+1 and blam im in the browser. win+2 IDE.

[@onejdc]

Komorebi is a tiling wm for windows . . .

[@liveen]

@@onejdc i cant believe you didnt get the joke, like i legitimately cant believe it

[@notnullbit]

As someone who switches between linux and windows a lot I def need to try some of this out! great video!

[@darianmorat]

U can do way more than this shown in the video definitely give it a try

[@ilnomedimestesso5296]

Writing def like in python is wild 💀

[@w花b]

​@@ilnomedimestesso5296 writing 'is' like in python is crazy bro

[@madghostek3026]

@@ilnomedimestesso5296 def need to try some of this out! great video! ^^ SyntaxError: expected '('

[@smartphonh]

​@@ilnomedimestesso5296??? this is normal tho

[@doragonmeido]

1:05 your vi took 5 business days to open that config file 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@someguyyoukno]

Bro probably using WSL and doesn't have the clipboard set to "" in neovim config. It syncs the clipboard veryyyy slowly with default behavior, you gotta turn it off and use something like win32yank or something similar

[@dxggaming6822]

Bro doesn't lazyload his plugins 😂

[@someguyyoukno]

​@@darianmoratoh for sure. Im on mobile otherwise id send the stackoverflow link talking about it in detail. Basically in your vim (or neovim settings) set the clipboard equal to quotes ("" or '') so vim knows not to sync the clipboard to the registers upon opening vim. You can actually set an AutoCMD in neovim to sync upon bufEnter for instance, and that seemed to fix the problem for me almost entirely. Setting the clipboard to "" is all you need to get rid of the startup time. My vim startup time is 30-50ms every time now and I use about 40-50 plugins

[@chithiradiasseneviratne3562]

@@someguyyoukno neovim, vim & vi all have native windows versions. I personally use nvim on my windows pc. I would say its his plugins that could be slowing it down

[@kv4648]

What do you have to do with wsl? Leaving this here cause I'm a newbie wsl user

[@Bhanukamax]

Really awesome setup! ironically window management was one of the things held me from switching back to windows. Looks like things are really improving. Thanks a lot for sharing 🎉🎉

[@whoman0385]

i will never use windows ever again but I have to admit this is insane for how limited windows is

[@kjala_nix]

This isn't insane. This is just Linux influencing Windows users. I have Windows 10 dualboot with GlazeWM, Droptop Four, Flow Launcher with the Gold Box theme, Wezterm.

[@Fizcakesprite]

yeah, he's using external apps for this. u cant do this on base windows.

[@Pepo..]

@@Fizcakesprite really? how?

[@boaphil]

Just FYI, you actually can disable the MS Edge Search in windows start menu via registry keys Not the most straight forward, but it works

[@echostik]

There is a utility tool from chris titus it has all the debloating tools u need for windows inlcluding getting rid of that bloated start menu with simple clicks

[@MatarM0]

yup, and instead of editing these keys manually there are helpful tools like chris titus win utility (I use it, but there are alternative options) that do it for you

[@Cewu]

yup, legit the 1st thing I did after setting up the "user" side of things. files folders programs and all that

[@pou4447]

This is the best windows i have ever seem. Very good video man!

[@dimaryk11]

The whole of powertoys suite is so good

[@XueYlva]

as someone who is very fond of Hyprland on Arch, this is badass

[@JulianInsua]

This will save my life if I ever get forced to use windows!!! Awesome stuff!!!

[@Harald723]

Wait this is windows??? I thought it was Linux with hyprland

[@Tracing0029]

How did you make the search link in the comment

[@dhwaneel]

@@Tracing0029 KZbin sometimes autogenerates it

[@duckmeat4674]

​@@Tracing0029press alt-f4 with the text highlighted

[@watynecc3309]

fr

[@GabrielM01]

its clearly not, it has artifacts the animation are all bugged out

[@aenother]

Nice setup! I really like configurations / setups that emphasize functionality (and a bit of looks), over just 'look I installed NVChad neofetch terminal and a music player'.

[@cachorrodowindowsxp1672]

Finally a good video about Windows customization, if you search about how to customize Windows on YT you see many videos, but, all the desktop look the same, its always the same rainmeter widget, the same taskbarx or translucenttb, even the wallpaper it's similar.

[@p5ych1x86]

your Windows looks better than my arch

[@unityaa]

skill issue

[@aprilx]

I'm in absolute love with your terminal font, thank you for showing me it :)

[@thetical-yew]

thanks man, you led me down a rabbit hole looking at customizations for windows. I had no idea all of this was available!

[@MaisistkeinGemuese]

For anyone getting annoyed by Bing in the Startmenu, just disable it in Settings->Privacy->Search or press the 3 Dot Menu left to the Copilot Icon when searching to turn it off. I love this Setup, I want to learn to use my PC with Mostly Keyboard only, but Browsing and Navigating Maps is most of my Work and takes much longer with the Keyboard than a mouse :(

[@jacobloncar1318]

Easy sub! Would love to see a tutorial on setting some of this stuff up on a clean install of windows. Just an idea!

[@zetho.270]

this is sick! I personally use yasb (yet another status bar), I like it because it has a taskbar widget (shows running apps), and komorebic wm (does the same thing). Suck setup though, very clean!

[@sussusamogus7831]

Great video, great configuration. Will definitely try it out.

[@qupufu]

I've spent a lot of time making my windows workflow as "linux-like" as possible while still being kind of vanilla. I've ended up with windows 10 taskbar with wide labels on the top of the screen and a massive auto hotkey script as a dmemu replacement and for all my shortcuts

[@Pepo..]

i swear i was looking for this FOR MONTHS and the only vids i found where those dumb customization videos where they just remove everything because "fannncyyy" and put a clock in the middle because "it's minimalistic"

[@mrjson3039]

What an amazing video. I was wondering with the raylib one, what kind of black magic you did to windows terminal to make it look like that. I'm glad you chose other emulator. I'm also glad this video didn't existed a couple of months ago, otherwise I would not have made the jump to ubuntu. The take away from this amazing piece of media: 1. Windows sucks at its name 2. Welcome to my setup avoding my OS as much as possible. Again, thanks for this, amazing.

[@SirChronoblaze]

Hey Sphere, I followed your links last about 1-2 weeks ago, and had a lot of setup to do! Glazewm and Zebar have changed their configs and how they operate some of the functions. The configs provided didn't work, and I had to spend a good amount of time, which i did enjoy, to get it to look how I wanted. Just wanted to request an updated video on this topic! Thanks!!

[@abrarmasumabir3809]

This is goldmine for windows users.

[@pro_gemer]

Still not convinced that this is windows

[@davidbehrle6114]

thank you so much, this looks dope, ive been looking for something exactly like this for a while

[@wolfinthedepths]

i use hyprland/dwm on arch 80% of the time but still have windows dualbooted for games, this is interesting af just to make the workflows match my linux muscle memory. definitely gonna try it out!

[@theycallmesloth]

Same!

[@hakanakdag9491]

Long time ago, I was able to play games on linux. Recently I installed and tried many distros, even garuda which is for games, nothing worked. I believe there is something wrong going on about graphics card. Linux cant detect it somehow. Also steam is adding another level to this problem. I havent given up yet but not much hope.

[@theycallmesloth]

@@hakanakdag9491 what's your gpu? You should try some plug and play distro like bazzite to first isolate the problem you're having.

[@madghostek3026]

​@@hakanakdag9491 if you have nvidia card then try downgrading driver versions, I think getting linux to at least detect the card should generally be possible (they take care of it, since all GPU datacenters run linux). The issues start arising when actually trying to run something under the gpu :D

[@wolfinthedepths]

@@hakanakdag9491 i used to be 100% linux a while ago, but had to install windows again for reasons beyond my control. i remember Proton and Lutris making gaming pretty easy, so i didn't have any problems back then

[@em_y9]

to everyone confused about where to put the config file for zebar: as of the 2.0 release of zebar they changed how configs work and yaml configs arent a thing anymore so those will only work on pre 2.0 releases

[@herm1tbear]

Besides, if all you want is to change the opacity, find zebar/starter/styless.css, and edit the #root bagrkound colour. Hope this helps.

[@davesiarez7229]

@@herm1tbear can you make the opacity like the vid? i tried to add rgba with 0.3 opacity and it seems like there is always white background. if this is bug, hoping for a fix

[@yiro0-]

@@davesiarez7229 In the newest version you've GUI option for this if you're not sure if you modify correct config file. Tho sometimes it tends to not work. A fix will arrive in near future probably.

[@МихаилАлешин-х7б]

It's awesome! Stupid question, btw: where should I place yml config for Zebar?

[@davesiarez7229]

up

[@AJKammerer]

@@davesiarez7229 Up Up

[@AJKammerer]

Nvm, figured it out. the YAML is for configuring glazewm, which also configures zebar. It goes in ~/.glzr/glazewm/config.yaml

[@AJKammerer]

Getting this error though with your configuration: missing field `binding_modes` at line 8 column 1

[@BoCruzMH]

It's really insane and great video !

[@gabrieldacunha4802]

This is beautiful. Thanks for the tips!

[@wilmernyman]

I had no idea this was possible on Windows! I'm sure to try it out as Windows is a bit boring. Thanks for this gem!

[@__vha]

I remember going on 4chan and just scrolling the windows and linux rice threads. Good times.

[@uuo4930]

bro how did u manage to change opacity for zebar? what file did you modified? Great video, I'm now changing to your configs, thanks!

[@davesiarez7229]

i tried to changed the styles.css file and it works. However, the opacity is buggy as it always has a white background

[@uuo4930]

@@davesiarez7229 actually I found the correct way, you don't have to edit the css, you have to edit the json file, there is a value that says transparent: false, change it to true and that's it

[@rafaelffonseca]

@@davesiarez7229 How did you manage to do that? I've tried a lot of things but nothing worked.

[@shariemakesart]

If you're still looking to do this, I changed "transparent" to true in '.glzr\zebar\starter\with-glazewm.zebar.json', which I think gets rid of the background that is always there. Then you can set "#root { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .15) }" in 'styles.css' or customize as desired

[@uuo4930]

@@shariemakesart yeah I figured it out later thanks for commenting!

[@pineppolis]

i personally find basic windows with a few changes in the settings and a nice wallpaper very pretty

[@bigupbig2198]

How do you make your zebar transparent and where does the zebar-config.yaml file go in your .glzr dir?????

[@TheScott10012]

This is excellent! How do you navigate your web browser with your keyboard?

[@TheScott10012]

Joined your discord and saw it's Vimium C, cheers

[@Neuer_Alias_erstellen]

thank god the terminal is made in rust - almost had me worried

[@ehl-12]

WezTerm looks dope, but I'm not sure if it's enough to get me to move from my Alacritty + Tmux config XD. Regardless though, awesome video, and amazing channel! Keep it up!

[@videosenjoyer]

If you want to try a cool wayland only term, I suggest foot :p

[@alexhiatt3374]

i switched to linux almost exclusively to use i3, this is huge for me!

[@IsaacFoster..]

Bro lives the Linux experience in Windows 11

[@redejandrog.r2965]

This is great I didn't even know using a different window manager was an option on windows

[@mechaniccat7682]

its not as such. GlazeWM is just a program that runs over the top of explorer.exe and arranges your windows for you - you can't really remove the normal Windows functionality without massively messing with your system - but you can run lots of things on top to mostly achieve what you want

[@JotaleaGG]

First time in years I'm actually impressed by how windows looks.

[@CyberFlow10]

Every Windows should look like this.

[@nikos4677]

This looks better than my os. I use arch btw

[@jojosba2523]

You can regedit it so when u search it doesnt allow any edge searches, removing them from the win search. Great Video to get a view on Windows customization

[@mainone930]

whats that at the top of your screen , ps your videos are cozy and i like them

[@TerminalzPain]

After using Hyprland for 6months and then going back to Windows, this will be nice :) Now to figure out how to change the keybinds to be just like Hyprland lol

[@hakuj0102]

thnks bro, a really awesome win setup

[@RenderingUser]

6:49 imo, flow launcher is better than the launcher powertoys comes with

[@firestormjupiter]

I had a pretty bad experience with configuring powertoys run, it was slow, broken and buggy. Used flow launcher all the way until I discovered fluent search, which absolutely destroys all competition with the exception of being a bit slower.

[@prezentoappr1171]

Either powertoys or wizfile for me, when all go down, I'll use the OSS alt:docFetcher. Tho hard to set up and get up running

[@Invuska]

I was wondering if there were any good alts to my Komorebi + yasb setup, since it does have some quirks that while not dealbreakers can be annoying. Seems like this is convincing me to give other 'WMs' a shot. Very cool.

[@jdanks]

im an arch user btw. i have windows on an ssd i plug in sometimes to play rust and i did a simular rice to this using fancywm and taskbarX. works okish. im a fulltime linux user so its pretty painful to put myself through that. i3 gang

[@pshr2447]

btw

[@gorlix]

btw amen

[@8followsonik]

i've no words......... ...it's beautiful.. legend! 😎

[@ahmede92]

you lied, I will cancel you on Facebook

[@x-bloof]

Man i tried to override window to get that taskbar natively transparent for so long hahaha thanks for the knowledge

[@fulowtop]

the forbidden **windows** tiling manager

[@dreastonbikrain1896]

Wow, there really exists a working windowManager for windows? Cool

[@solipse.]

how did brave turn out looking like that! I’m using zen browser btw. For my window, all i did was using revi os playbook. It turns out pretty good, and it’s probably safe. I only use my window for valorant so I have no concern. But it does strip out unnecesary thing like edge and make window search more fast? (cause it’s not showing web search stuff etc…) not sure if it was this specific thing i did though.

[@randomuser186]

Looks amazing

[@Kiyotaka_Ayanokoji_kun]

Honestly when I first saw your video for the first time I thought you were using DWM, cause all the DWM rices looks like this ( the ones I have seen, there were other ones but this kind of ones are common )

[@panaxioius6791]

task bar has the tiny use of even when hidden if you do win+[number] the number the application is order(left to right) in it it'll open it so you can make your workflow faster that way

[@sushimampfer]

StartAllBack allows you to center the taskbar icons, but not the windows logo, I find it way cleaner that way(you just have to revert some default settings it creates when installing)

[@lonekid9286]

Why not disable the main taskbar completely?

[@szymonsniegocki528]

Im considering tiling manager for windows and is there any particular reason you've chosen glaze over komorebi? Is it more stable?

[@edems131]

I have almost same setup. Im only using flowlacher instead of powertoys because it have better theme options and more plugins. However i have most apps bind to keybind and lanch them using ATH. Is awesome that you can make windows function as riced linux when you are forced to work on it.

[@181E-16Hz]

I use Wox Launcher, less bloat. PowerToys fork of it.

[@tenshi5502]

sooo good config! looks great!

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Wondered if Power Toys would be mentiioned. That particular widget doesn't achieve its Final Form without being paired with Everything. The search utility for Windows, not literally "everything".

[@mikacasaubon8219]

That's truly amazing. I really though that was Linux. Too bad I can't use that in my work computer because I'm restricted with the programs I can use. I would love a window manager and a run launcher at work.

[@astrx2]

Sorry but i have a question, how do you make your wezterm UI like how it shows the path etc.. ?

[@perseussmith3274]

Probably oh-my-posh

[@lunarspect]

Cool setup! I prefer ysab reborn with komorebi but glazewm is more polished

[@sherrilltechnology]

Great video Brother!!

[@aya_tadda]

Here before this blows up!

[@inhthinh522]

Bro's starting the race into Windows ricing

[@mysterry2000]

This video has the same vibe as NoBoilerplate videos

[@odysseus_yuuma]

Great video! Thanks you There's a issue with Rebar... Can you please update Zebar config, cause they reworked how configs work

[@onuroran9974]

Is there anything you're having trouble compatibility with right now? I also wanted to make such a setup, but I thought it might be broken by upcoming Windows updates.

[@elbbi]

How you open a directory? Just search file explorer with powertoys?

[@EliasZsp]

That's soooo cool wtf thanks for sharing

[@Oscar-xx5xj]

Love the workflow, but i have one issue with wezterm, when i run scripts that require another terminal window it launches cmd instead of wezterm for this new window. Any idea on how to fix that??

[@pshr2447]

hey great video, although one point I use Wsl and work with GUI (sdl, x11, sfml) and game dev (raylib/opengl) all the time and it works fine, I think I'm your case you might be missing the MESA drivers that aren't shipped by default in WSL2?

[@subhuman3227]

lemme know when you have a way to make windows fully controller compatible or maybe linux os with all the things that make it work like windows but also look clean with full controller support

[@ggqqlive]

How do you fix the environment variables that make cli run program?

[@ayanaayaw9853]

hey can you please remake the zebar config? yaml doesnt work on the latest version. Downgrading doesn’t help either

[@JoePerkins666]

Keypirinha would be a nice replacement for that powertoys launcher.

[@apurbosarker112]

Amazing. Truly amazing

[@etterathe]

Did I see correctly that your vi was entering 200 loc config file 5 seconds?

[@zephyrthesearchrescuedog8358]

He's got some Windows defender rules to tweak, that shouldn't be like that even on Windows, on my Windows setup that just like his it's less than 100ms

[@codingwithsphere]

It only does that the first time i open nvim, after thats it's basically instantaneous. It seems to be a windows issue because ny same config doesnt do that on linux

[@codingwithsphere]

@@zephyrthesearchrescuedog8358do you know what that would be ?

[@zephyrthesearchrescuedog8358]

@@codingwithsphere try this recommendation I found, "added neovim install directory (C:\tools eovim*), neovim config (AppData\Local vim* and AppData\Local vim-data*) as well as the directory I start up neovim to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths with value 0" Also this is not being run from a WSL barrier right? Everything is in native Windows?

[@codingwithsphere]

@@zephyrthesearchrescuedog8358 yes this is in native windows. Thanks!

[@lexintrus]

my main issue with windows is the fact that i cant use super + number to change my workspaces and super + , or . im sure i can probably fix it using auto hotkey but another thing is linux configuration is much more easier, plus the fact that windows eats up a lot of ram, even on windows just makes windows a bad choice for me. but awesome setup man

[@mgame8082]

Nice background! Can you share link for download?

[@kpr3729]

Hello, how do you apply the config for zebar? I do not understand the info stated in their documentation

[@FuturePulse_nl]

Keypirinha is a nice alternative to the Power Toys launcher. At least is snapier and more configurable.

[@nikolasemerdzhiev8800]

I'm an avid user of Power Toys for its accents and letter variations, but it doesnt work for me while i have glazeWM open. Have you had any similar issue and managed to fix it?

[@perseussmith3274]

You probably need sto change some default keybinds from glazewm to some that dont interfere with powertoys.

[@agustingarcinuno4172]

bro where does the zebar yaml go

[@ewangreen7080]

thats what im saying

[@generaltt8698]

Can't find it either :( If you have any luck finding it please let me know ...

[@odysseus_yuuma]

Since Zebar 2.0 there's no more yaml configs. I hope Sphere will update it

[@ninetydirectory3798]

Will all of this be reseted after update?

[@rafidcom9961]

I use arch hyprland 95% of my time . Just dualbooted windows to play some games that don't support linux . But ricing windows. Bro that will make a history

[@Kingmaxx22]

I've been trying to set the opacity of zebar but im so lost

[@RandomytchannelGD]

DID BRO JUST HYPRLAND WINDOWS

[@mahiabir6348]

Been waiting for this so bad. Thanks a lot

[@romankoshchei]

do you dual boot linux and windows or you have separate machines for them?

[@codingwithsphere]

I have separate machines for them

[@Clebatwork]

No Fancy Zones from power toys?? I wanna try out a tiling WM but fancy zones is pretty neat too, ever tried it?

[@Clebatwork]

Love the rest of the vid, as a fellow WezTerm enjoyer, nice work!