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Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by drnick1 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:32PM (#50418871)
This looks at lot like Android.
Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by falsemyrmidon on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:56PM (#50419591)
Piping curl to sh is pretty much always a bad practice.
Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by Zambyte on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:24PM (#50421060)
Have there been any notable incidents where mistrusting a curl | sh was the cause? I hear people say not to do it way more than I hear people talking about actual incidents it's caused.
Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by fwip on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:29PM (#50419824)
Yeah, definitely ripped straight from Material Design. That clock widget looks like an exact copy of one from a phone I had.

I assume this project is all vibe-coded?

Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by epihelix on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:57PM (#50420461)
> I assume this project is all vibe-coded?

You know what happens when you assume, right?

https://github.com/duxlabs-dev/dux-shell?tab=contributing-ov...

Quoting in part from that:

> Using an LLM to help write code is fine. Submitting its output unread is not.

> * You are responsible for every line you submit. You have read it, tested it, and can explain it in review.

> * Say in the PR when a meaningful part of the code was AI generated.

> * Write PR descriptions, issues, and comments yourself. No AI-written or AI-rewritten text. A few plain sentences in your own words beat a page of generated summary. PRs and issues with AI-written text get closed without review.

> ...

> * PRs that read like unreviewed output, with narrating comments, invented APIs, or style that ignores the file they are in, get closed without review.

That looks very clearly non-vibe coded to me. (Also, it's a mature project with 79 releases over the last year and a bit, and 321 contributors.)

As much as I respect the abilities of agentic coding LLMs, I don't think we're yet at the point that you could vibe-code a novel Wayland DE. This is not trivial stuff!

Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by WD-42 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:42PM (#50420801)
There’s a new vibe coded Wayland shell every week now. It’s actually unfortunate DMS renamed when they did. I saw this and assumed it was just another vibe coded abandonware without realizing what it was.
Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by thayne on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:57PM (#50420898)
It isn't really a wayland DE. It's a shell that can be used with niri, hyprland, sway, etc. And is also built on top of quickshell.
Re:Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file ma... by OuterVale on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:28PM (#50420250)
I'm not saying you do this, but I do enjoy complaints about piping cURL to shell when so many people are giving LLMs full access to do whatever they want on their computers.

Sometimes they're the same people such at it is fun seeing the mental gymnastics to draw the line just under one's self.