> The percentage of actual "this is the desktop I use to earn money" shots is minute.
Fwiw. the desktop I use to earn money looks something out of /r/unixporn, except that it's ugly (no background, etc). Tiling window manager, a few pixel wide borders, firefox (without toolbar, scrollbars, menubar) and a whole lot of xterms with tmux and my favorite 16 colors.
I don't have a pretty background picture, fancy IRC setup or a desktop bar with the song that's playing so it's not worth posting screenshots, but it gets the job done and it's very easy to replicate when I get a new computer (ie. just copy dotfiles over, no need to poke around in config menus of a bunch of applications).
I really need to checkout /r/unixporn because what you describe is exactly what I have on my machine. One day I started thinking about what I started with as a professional programmer (back in the 80s). 80x25 terminal. I was happy with it. What was the new stuff giving me? Eyestrain.
I've got tmux with a 25 point font and 16 colours now :-) Happy as a clam. Would be nice to have a browser that I could bend to my will... Some people will never get it, but this is a very nice setup if you know how to use it.
(but as someone else mentioned, I run compton because I like stupid effects and drop shadows... crazy, right?)
I have a svn repo that I keep all my dot-files in. Whenever I get a new install I just check it out. I have a script that copies them into place, with some variables where machines need to be different. It works pretty well
i3-gaps + Polybar + random color scheme and a wallpaper?
I'm using the same combo right now, but /r/unixporn just isn't as exciting to me as it was maybe a year ago. Everything posted there seems to follow one specific path nowadays.
Never been to /r/unixporn but ricing my desktop and Linux os is what taught me Linux to the point of becoming an SA, then an SE. Amazing way to learn Linux.
Systems Engineer. Started as an SA, worked my way to SE, but being a Linux hobbyist is what taught me all my knowledge on Unix. Never went to University. What the guys on /r/unixporn do is pretty much what I'd do with my OS, but add the networking and server-side stuff too.
I confess I don't really know what a systems engineer is. I know a Sysadmins as "lifesavers who can deal with the monstrosity of modern operating systems and communication between them". But never heard of a Systems Engineer.
This probably highly varies by country/region, but here (Central/Northern Europe) using the title "Engineer" usually implies having an engineer's degree, which here is basically M.Sc. in a technical university.
Yes it does here too, but for some reason in IT it doesn't matter. I don't know why this is, but there are many titles like Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Database Engineer, Network Engineer, etc. These titles are not uncommon and they usually don't have hard requirements on degrees or group membership like "real" engineering fields such as Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering does. I know this is true in Canada, and have heard this is also true in the US, but I'm not sure about other countries. They're all skilled nonetheless.
I couldn't disagree more, i'm based in the UK.. but I've worked internationally with engineers varying from without college education to people with PhD's... both are competent in their area of expertise and are right in calling themselves engineers.
In some areas use of the title "Engineer" is regulated. I'm not claiming what's right or wrong on this, just stating how things are.
From Wikipedia [1]:
"The practice of engineering in the UK is not a regulated profession [...] In Continental Europe, Latin America, Turkey and elsewhere the title is limited by law to people with an engineering degree and the use of the title by others is illegal."
XFCE, a theme, an icon scheme, and Vim, and I feel almost as pretty and almost as productive as any riced-out Linux desktop, and it took me one tenth of the time.
The percentage of actual "this is the desktop I use to earn money" shots is minute.