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Mike Bybee

I use the BlackArch repos when I'm running something Arch-based (which I never end up sticking with), which is a much easier thing to do than bringing Kali or Parrot repos into any other Debian-based distro (do not do this, it is a path to infinite breakage and sadness), but I'm definitely not a fan of the BlackArch distro's minimal window manager (BlackBox or OpenBox IIRC).

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Karan Gandhi

I was going to install BlackArch + XFCE and this
github.com/Anyon3/blackmate

But dont want to break my already chimeric system(3 Linux + Windows on 2HDDs + SSD) cos work. :)

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Mike Bybee • Edited

Nice find! With a few tweaks, the script should be able to work with any XDG-compliant desktop, e.g. KDE (my choice for a while now, so easily and infinitely configurable and, believe it or not, on par with XFCE resource usage in recent releases), GNOME (though it won't matter with their default MacOS Launchpad clone menu, you'll need an alternate menu GNOME extension), Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie, etc.

I've thought about doing something similar to merge ubuntustudio-menu and kxstudio-menu and bring their structure to non Ubuntu-/Debian-based distros' menus for creative apps.

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Mike Bybee

Man, I never want to go back to bare metal Windows install again if I don't have to. Getting that way with MacOS too (wink wink).