Part of my hardware fiend origin story involves watching the anime Serial Experiments Lain at far too young an age and being haunted by its prescience ever since. The total amelioration of digital and physical worlds aside, I still daydream about customising my login screen to look more like the fictitious OS from the show—though obviously that's much easier with Linux.
Case in point, one Redditor has made a slew of slick-looking Linux lock screens fashioned after a number of popular games. Whether you enjoy crunching blocks in Minecraft or Terraria, or would rather feel all philosophical staring at a NieR Automata-inspired login screen, Darkkal44 has got you covered with the appropriate Dotfiles over on their Github.
Built for use with Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) or Quickshell in Linux, the project is called Qylock. The anime sickos like me are well-served here too, as a selection of the included lock screens mimic a number of gacha games that owe a huge debt to popular Japa...
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