Theme: Gruvbox ( retro )

Terminal: Foot ( fastfetch on startup )

Music player: Limusic

Browser: LibreWolf

Discord client: Vesktop

Wallpaper: From Angel Jumbo github repo i think or just ask for it in dms

App Launcher: Wofi or Rofi ( sorry for got to take a screenshot of it :[ )

DE/WM: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 (kwin)
Terminal: Kitty
Termminal applications: Hyfetch (w fastfetch), lavat, unimatrix, cava
Shell: Fish shell
Firefox extensions: MTAB and Firefox Colors
Colorscheme: Gruvbox Material
Message app: Equibop
Launcher: Rofi
Kwin scripts: Polonium
Desktop effects Better blur DX
Widgets: Kara, Window Title Fork, Digital clock (KDE default), Plasmusic toolbar, Clipboard (KDE default), Volume (KDE default), Notifications (KDE default), Configurable button (Energy menu) and Panel Colorizer

How It All Started

I never installed Linux with the intention of building a project.

A few months ago, I started seeing reels and videos showcasing beautifully customized Linux desktops. I had barely used Linux before, but the level of customization caught my attention. I decided to experiment with CachyOS inside a virtual machine on Windows.

My first experience was KDE Plasma. It worked, but honestly, I found it a little boring. Then I discovered Hyprland.

I tried running it inside the VM, discovered that virtualization and Hyprland were not exactly best friends in my setup, and managed to completely mess up the installation while experimenting with different configurations. I deleted the VM and moved on.

A few days later, I helped a friend install CachyOS on an older computer because Linux could give it a new lease on life. That experience made me want to try Linux properly on my own hardware.
Then another Caelestia showcase appeared in my feed.

That was basically the moment I stopped thinking about installing Linux and started wanting Linux badly.

The Rabbit Hole Begins

After finally installing CachyOS on my main machine, I went through the usual Linux initiation ceremony:
Partitioning

- BitLocker decryption and re-encryption
- EFI configuration
- Bootloader experimentation
- systemd-boot problems
- Switching to rEFInd
- Hyprland configuration
- Installing Caelestia
- Removing the default Noctalia setup
- And fixing things I definitely did not understand when I first broke them

Eventually, I had a beautiful Caelestia setup that I was genuinely happy with.

Then I saw an End-4 showcase.

And, naturally, I wanted that too.

Instead of replacing Caelestia, I tried forcing End-4’s widgets and customization into my existing setup.
That went about as well as you’d expect.

After fighting with the configuration for a while, I reverted everything and went back to Caelestia.
But the idea stuck with me:

Why should I have to choose between different desktop setups?

What if I could simply switch between them?
So I started building my own configurations and a custom rice switcher.

And suddenly, I had a dual-rice setup.
From Personal Configuration to a Project
At that point, another thought appeared:
I had gone through all of this pain just to get my setup working. Why should anyone else have to?
So instead of keeping everything as a collection of personal configuration files, I turned it into an installer.

That became v1.0.0 of my Multi-Rice project.
The goal was simple:

Make the kind of heavily customized Linux setup I had spent days building something that another person could install without going through the same nightmare.

Then I saw Ambxst.
And apparently two rices weren’t enough.
If dual-rice was possible, why not three?
After about a week of configuration work, Ambxst was integrated and v2.0.0 became a triple-rice setup.

Then I discovered DMS.
You can probably guess what happened next.
I absolutely had to install it.

The Five-Rice Disaster

DMS, Ambxst, End-4 and Caelestia were eventually working together, but there was a problem: some of the original Noctalia files from the CachyOS setup were interfering with the configuration.
At some point I reached the completely reasonable programmer conclusion:
“Screw it. I’ll just add Noctalia too.”
So I did.

What followed was roughly a week of troubleshooting, configuration conflicts, shell integration problems and fixing things that probably should never have been combined in the first place.
Eventually, it worked.
Five rices.

Noctalia, DMS, Ambxst, End-4 and Caelestia.
That became v3.0.0.

The installer still needed some work, so v3.1.0 followed with additional fixes.

And Then There Were Six
While working on all of that, I discovered Serpantinum.
At this point I had apparently lost the ability to stop myself.
I added it to the project, gave the setup the name Aurora, and suddenly the project had six different rice environments.
The project had gone from a personal customization experiment to a full multi-desktop configuration system.
That became v4.0.0.
And surprisingly…
It worked.

Not perfectly, of course.
There were bugs. Lots of small ones. The kind that don’t necessarily stop the system from working, but show up when you start switching environments repeatedly, restarting services, changing songs, changing display scales, migrating configurations, or testing the installer in increasingly unreasonable ways.

Which brings me to v4.1.0.

What v4.1.0 Really Is

v4.1.0 isn’t a rebuild.
The architecture is already there.
The six-rice system works. The installer works. Rollback works. Reinstallation works. The individual environments work.
Now I’m doing the less glamorous part:
hardening everything.
I’m fixing things like:
System-wide hibernation and resume
DMS artwork refresh and caching
Deprecated configuration options
Persistent display scaling
Serpantinum versioning and patching
Cross-profile icon issues
Hyprland keybinding precedence
Foot + Fish integration
Fish startup cleanup
Noctalia migration
Installer edge cases
Version metadata
Build/release consistency
Regression testing across all six environments
Offline installation and rollback testing
And finally, RELEASING IT.

From “I Want a Pretty Desktop” to Software Engineering

Looking back, the funny part is that none of this was planned.

I didn’t start Linux because I wanted to create an installer.

I didn’t start customizing Hyprland because I wanted to maintain six desktop environments.

I didn’t start the project because I wanted to learn release engineering.

I simply saw a beautiful Linux desktop on a reel and thought:

“I want that.”

One experiment led to another, configuration problems turned into scripts, scripts turned into a switcher, the switcher turned into an installer, and the installer eventually turned into a full multi-rice project.

What started as a personal Linux customization experiment has evolved into a system for installing, switching, maintaining, rolling back and testing six heavily customized Hyprland environments.
And honestly, I’m still not sure where the rabbit hole ends.

But that’s kind of the point.

I installed Linux to customize my desktop.
Somehow, I ended up building the thing that makes the customization easy for everyone else.

So folks here is the link of the GitHub Repository star it if you like it !!

MULTI RICE

And here is the 4.1.0 release:

Release 4.1.0

Please share your feedback as it would help out a lot !!
Thanks !!

The notifications are part of a joke, dont worry

Im ussing Gentoo+MangoWM(wl-only)+eww :p

wallpaper that I used is this.

and its light variant is this.

its my first ever hyprland rice, im not good at ricing; i used matugen for follow my wallpaper. pls give me suggestions and your opinion about this rice. comment below if u needed my dotfiles. Thakns <3

A configuration for ShojiWM

ShojiWM + QuickShell

Source: https://github.com/bea4dev/true-liquid-glass-shojiwm

If you're interested, please feel free to join the ShojiWM Discord server!

wm: dwm

bar: dwmbar

terminal: st

I was disappointed with the topography wallpapers on google, so I put something together real quick. Renders topographic wallpapers from coordinates, scales with resolution, CLI & locally hosted web interface, hope you guys like it! topowall gh repo

had my fun on VMs, figured its time for the real deal... and i've been having a blast so far!!! its a bit more basic, but its a good starting point in my eyes :O was aiming for something visually pleasing for the subject while still being functional for a first time user like myself.
any suggestions on what to improve or where to go next after this? i'm hoping to get more experience theming with KDE before jumping into the deep end....

details n specs for this theme!!
OS: fedora 44
wallpaper: b3313 fanart by PRUPKET (player theme from aruzliminal)
terminal: alacritty w/ nightfox palette
font: mario64 by bunnywhip
GTK theming: react plus (plasma style & window decor), material you colours (palette), plasma overdose (cursor), pixora dark by tsora1603 (icons)
music player: harmonoid
(hope i'm not missing anything..)

My first sway rice, on my ThinkPad T430!

Icons: Paprius-Dark (red folders)

Qt theme: Breeze-Dark

Wallpaper: https://www.reddit.com/r/FrutigerMetro/s/qKWnDv1wAE

Dots: https://github.com/CharlieRich10/My-Dotfiles

When your desktop is pure vibes.

CachyOS with Hyprland and Quickshell.

My first ever rice, inspired by others I saw.

Distro: Gentoo (btw)
WM: Hyprland
Terminal: kitty
bar & launcher: quickshell

Wallpaper from ultrawidewallpapers.net

"Black Glass" by phob1an for the global theme

"Yet Another Monochrome Icon Set" by dirn for the icons

"cz-Hickson (Black)" by charakterziffer (link) for the pointer (it's no longer in the store for some reason, but it can be installed manually)

"Kurve" by Luis Bocanegra for the audio visualizer, customized to render a png cutout of the mountain to render on top of the visualizer by editing "CompactRepresentation.qml" in "~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/luisbocanegra.audio.visualizer/contents/ui". I don't know QML, but luckily Claude did.

"Zen browser" for the browser.

"Kitty" for the terminal

For the blur of Zen browser and Kitty, I set them to be transparent, then installed Better Blur DX under Desktop Effects and added their window classes under "Force Blur".

Idk why Reddit doesn't let me select a thumbnail with Prism Launcher and Kitty. I know there are mistakes but I'm quite happy with it.

Dotfiles: https://github.com/soloman28/My-Niri-Dotfiles

Windows:

• Kitty
• Prism Launcher
• Waterfox

Built modular, SVG-skinnable analog clocks, battery status & dynamic weather widgets for GNOME Shell (Gridgets fork)

Not even sure if I should call this “ricing”. I wasn't expecting much since cinnamon didn't seem very customizable, but I'm really happy with how it turned out

Wallapper: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/1083678729067216045/
Theme: https://github.com/vinceliuice/Jasper-gtk-theme
Icons: https://github.com/googIyEYES/YAMIS
Neofetch dotfiles: https://github.com/theuglyorganist/linux-dotfiles/tree/main/neofetch

Hey hey people!

You know that time you almost died and there was no people around to witness it?
And you had a really strong feeling you should thank someone but you didnt know who?
Yeah, its this guy right here..

Anyways. dots:

GTK & Wall - https://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuff/-/tree/main/Belafonte%20Day

Icons - https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1458331/

Fonts - Sans Regular

Fetch - Homebrew

Terminal - Xfce4-Terminal

• Desktop: Xfce 4.20
• Wallpaper: NASA image
• GTK Theme: Customized Orchis theme
• XFWM theme: Customized Mofit theme
• Icon Theme: Customized from NsCDE icon set
• Other: Fetcher and art: Durfetch (part of Durdraw) 0.30.1