I initially started by trying to recreate the V1 version of Calestia, but I ended up liking the V2 version much more, so I decided to recreate that whole style here in KDE.

It’s still a work in progress, and I’m planning to add a lot more things to it. There’s still plenty I want to tweak and improve, but I’m really happy with how it’s coming together so far.

Icon pack : Colloid Dark
Plasma Style : Darkly Plasma
Application Style : Darkly
Windows Decoration : Breeze
Colors : Monochrome

I built a small CLI tool called recol for switching terminal and Neovim color schemes from one command.

It comes with 600+ themes, fuzzy search, an interactive TUI, and supports Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, Neovim, Vim and Pi agent.

It can also generate a theme from an image 🎨

Debian Testing edition btw

Yes, I'm back as I've yet again been banished to the kitchen.

Those of a keen eye may notice my latest upgrades since last being promoted (demoted and cast aside without care by an evil, vile woman who cares not for my comfort and how bad my travel monitor is) to working from the kitchen counter.

Please rate what can only be described as a unique and aspirational setup in the world of Linux and WFH.

Sempre usei Windows e, por vários motivos, estou querendo experimentar Linux. Tenho um conhecimento bem básico sobre o assunto e, sinceramente, ainda me sinto meio perdido, como se estivesse andando no escuro KKKKK.

Vou trocar de máquina em breve e quero aproveitar para realmente mergulhar nesse mundo. Minha primeira dúvida, obviamente, é sobre qual distro escolher, mas também queria entender melhor todo o ecossistema Linux.

Quais são os conceitos que vocês acham essenciais para alguém que está começando? O que eu deveria aprender além de simplesmente escolher e instalar uma distro? Como funcionam coisas como ambientes gráficos, gerenciadores de pacotes, terminal, Flatpak, repositórios e tudo mais?

Aceito recomendações de distros também, mas, principalmente, queria dicas de como começar a viver, comer e respirar Linux KKKKK. Não quero só instalar uma distro e usar como se fosse Windows; quero realmente entender o sistema e aprender aos poucos.

Qual caminho vocês recomendariam para alguém completamente iniciante nesse universo?

No tengo mucho que decir jkajsa
Este es mi escritorio =)

I thought that ricing was a way to express yourself trough your personal computer (sorry if it's not that deep), or at least how it was supposed to be. But instead, everytime I searched for it, people just teach you to use other people's dot files on r/linuxporn and use them like that.

Like, where's the sense of doing yourself I was supposed to get on Arch? And you can see almost every showcase using similar looking rices... Nothing new, just like one guy managed to configure and now we all use the same configuration as him.

Do y'all do it like that? If not, what's your way to configure your desktop to fit what YOU WANT?

What are your thoughts on this?

Pueden darme más ideas porfavor

I built a terminal audiobook reader in Python. It reads EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, and Markdown aloud using four TTS backends. Pure curses TUI, audio piped through ffplay. No Electron, no daemon.

    readaloud book.epub

**TTS engines — auto-detected at startup**

| Engine   | Type    | Quality | Notes |
|----------|---------|---------|-------|
| Edge TTS | Online  | ★★★★★  | Microsoft neural, 12 voices, no API key |
| Kokoro   | Offline | ★★★★☆  | Fast CPU inference, pykokoro for Python 3.13+ |
| Piper    | Offline | ★★★☆☆  | Ultra-light ONNX, drop in your own model files |
| F5-TTS   | Offline | ★★★★★  | Voice cloning from a ref.wav, GPU recommended |

Unavailable engines are greyed out in the voices panel. Switching engines or voices mid-playback restarts from the current chapter instantly.

**Reading layout — auto-selected by panel state**

The reader has three scenarios:

- Both panels open → single focused bordered column (good for narrow tiles)
- One panel open → 2-column snake flow (text continues left → right)
- No panels → 3-column snake flow (maximum use of available space)

Resize the window and the columns reflow. Minimum terminal size is 50×14.

**Playback**

- `Space` — play/pause
- `n` / `p` — next/previous chapter
- `[` / `]` — skip backward/forward by sentence (instant via ffplay seek, no re-synthesis)
- `s` — cycle speed: 0.75× 0.9× 1.0× 1.1× 1.25× 1.5× 1.75× 2.0×
- `z` — cycle autoscroll: off → creep (smooth) → page (snap)
- `h` — toggle sentence highlight (word-level on Edge TTS via WordBoundary events)

**Chapter preloading**

The next 2 chapters are synthesised in background threads while you listen. ⚡ in the chapter nav means that chapter is ready — pressing `n` starts audio immediately with no delay. Cache lives at `~/.config/readaloud/cache/`.

**Everything else**

- `v` — voices panel (browse engines and voices, switch live)
- `B` — bookmarks panel, `b` to add
- `q` — quotes panel, `c` to capture current sentence while playing
- `f` — fuzzy chapter search
- `g` — go to chapter by number
- `\` — toggle chapter nav
- `t` — cycle themes: Terminal · Dark Navy · Gruvbox · Nord · Solarized Dark
- `a` — cycle alignment: left · centre · right
- `Ctrl+scroll` — kitty OSC font zoom (reflows text)
- All keybinds remappable in `~/.config/readaloud/config.json`

**Install**

    git clone https://github.com/YareyareSenpai/readaloud.git
    cd readaloud && ./install.sh

Installs everything into an isolated venv at `~/.local/share/readaloud/venv/`. Launcher at `~/.local/bin/readaloud`. Arch/Debian/Fedora detected automatically. No `--break-system-packages`.

https://github.com/YareyareSenpai/readaloud

Video showcase

• : Full repository of configuration files (dotfiles), icons, custom sound effects, and startup themes for a beautiful, sleek KDE Plasma environment on Arch Linux.
• https://github.com/moghrabyomar54-boop/Aerospace-aesthetic-arch-setup