Subject: "MochaMew - My First Linux Rice"
I won’t lie. The biggest push that got me into this was because of PewDiePie. Seeing my childhood youtuber dabble into the tech world was something that I absolutely didn’t expect. I was very inspired by it and honestly, I’m shocked with how easy it was. I have used Linux before but I’ve never dabbled in customizing or personalizing it.
Forgive me, this is my first rodeo. It’s not terribly great but I guess it is a good first start. I’m currently using Picom as my compositor, i3 for window managing, Alacritty for terminal, Rofi for app launching and lastly, Polybar for the status bar.
Mainly went for a Catpuccin theme with an emphasis on deep blue. I also wanted transparency and blur effects. I ran all this in a virtual machine and I was quite happy with how well it ran. I didn’t really run into that many issues regarding graphical glitches or anything like that. The only really annoying part was setting up Picom on Debian.
I had to compile Picom from scratch because the latest stable build available from the package manager is an outdated build that doesn’t support any of the blur functionality. Therefore I had to compile it from scratch following the instructions on Github and with help from Gemini. I’m really happy with the way it turned out.
I know my system is still stuck on X11 which is pretty much aging. I will probably try something on Wayland in the future. I left the config files I used on my Github account for anyone interested.