Here’s mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company’s OS ;p
I use:
- Manjaro OS
- GNOME desktop
- WhiteSur icon theme (with a few icons changed in the desktop file)
- WhiteSur GTK and shell theme
- Bing wallpaper
- net speed simplified
- Logo Menu
- Show Desktop
- Top Bar Organiser (to move the time to the right)
- Overview background
I apologise if I missed anything.
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Default GNOME I’m a simple girl
GNOME looks nice by default, but I couldn’t imagine using a device without a net speed tracker anymore.
More or less replicated the desktop layout I had used throughout childhood, sans desktop icons
- Debian 12 stable
- XFCE + Chicago95
- Chicago95 black cursors
- Helvetica bitmap font
- Not shown: wdm login and slock screen locker
- Running on an X230T with classic keyboard mod to complete the look
Loved this one!
That is some nostalgia!
This is my my phone running Debian with XFCE:
Jazz jackrabbit and Winamp ❤️❤️
A modern phone running Linux, riced to look like 90s Windows.
Oh that’s CRIMINAL.
Oh I love it.
KDE + AeroThemePlasma
Punched right in the feelings
This is amazing. It even has the classic guassian blur.
Do the light ribbons that overlay the blur remain constant like in Win7? Or are they fixed on the window borders?
Yes, they remain constant. The theme author actually created a Plasma extension specifically for this!
That’s quite amazing that someone is ab’e to replicate all those aspects of Windows’ desktop environment, or whatever it’s called
It even has Aero Flip
Now I don’t know what that is
Aero will never die!
Long live Aero
I wanted to install this but apparently it doesn’t work with Wayland. A bummer, I love how Aero looks!
Oh, this screenshot is on Wayland! I don’t think the author tested it on Wayland but besides a couple of negligible glitches the only thing that’s missing is the slight blue tint on the glassy panel.
Man, after being a Windows user from windows 95-windows 7, I don’t think I would enjoy using the Aero theme, even though it was nice on Windows. I love the freedom Linux brings too much to constantly be reminding myself of Windows while using Linux.
Ah, I never had Windows 7 so perhaps that’s why I can bear it! Either way the reason I chose to use it is because I like skeuomorphic themes and all the GTK themes are flat these days, even Elementary
This is so cool! I love the theme.
You have good taste in DOS games as well. Is the “CAT” folder the 1984 game “Alley Cat”?
Thanks! And yeah, CAT is indeed the old Alley Cat game.
That’s an odd aspect ratio for a phone. And I can’t say I love the look of that DE.
It’s a foldable, unfolded. And that’s XFCE with a Windows 95 theme - there’s plenty of fans of the classic 90’s look, in fact, people have made an entire operating system around that aesthetic.
What foldable are you using?
And how easy/hard was it to geht Linux running on it?
Its not linux running on it. Its Termux! With termux-x11 plugin probably. I have this as well
Yup, that’s what they said aswell.
Cool thing!
A Galaxy Fold 4. I used this script which made it pretty easy to install the whole thing, but you can also install it reasonably easily using proot-distro, if you want a choice of distro/more customisation options.
Awesome thanks!
Ah, that makes sense with it being a foldable. As for the theme, each to their own, I guess.
I’d love that theme in my industrial equipment. Such a clear and concise visual language.
I was born on 96’ but I have to say this picture made me happy
how do you do that?
Lol link me the phone natively displaying this
Based on the neofetch it’s a Samsung Fold Z 4
what wm? and what is the spectrum thing
It is cava, an audio visualizer. And the wm is i3.
Is that two monitors next to each other or an ultrawide display?
Correct
Dope lol
fire
oh you little fucker
Seeing lots of discord on these. Anyone else like me and have to install updates to it a couple times a week from the package manager before it will open? I also notice it seems to close itself after a while, I think if the computer sleeps then wakes.
yeah discord is kinda fucking annoying on linux for that reason. i’d recommend something like vencord (vesktop) over discord’s client
At this point you might go for a hackintosh.
Nah, I’m just inspired my macOS’s design, there are still many things I prefer about Linux.
For one thing, the UI on macOS feels very unresponsive, and that’s not just because I’ve mainly used it in a VM, I’ve used it on a real device too and it had the same issues. It’s a fundamental issue on putting transitions that are way too long on simple functions that don’t need to be a transition at all. I can’t even move the cursor normally, it’s smoothed in such a way that it takes much longer to get it into a precise position.
Secondly, they refuse to use the same keyboard shortcuts as Windows and Linux, and I didn’t see an easy way to change them back.
Thirdly, you need to sign into an Apple account to use many apps or features of the OS. They also block a bunch of things that are simple to do in Linux.
Just a completely blank screen atm, I updated to plasma 6 and it has not been going well lol
Arch Linux moment
Title
No plasma 6 on fedora yet ;_;
Like default KDE fedora. I’ve done zero tweaks
<3 my pinephone pro https://i.imgur.com/LRcjLpT.png
Also, you can embed images so I don’t have to got to another site to see them like this
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ah thank you. fixed!
That’s running on a phone?
Yes! SXMO Arch with waybar. It’s a great little device (if you’re ready and able to jump thru some hoops).
That’s really cool
Well, mine looks like Windows XP, but not.
I like the widgets
I like the widgets , how can I get them?
They are installed by default with KDE Plasma. Although, on the taskbar, you can just get them in the KDE Plasma widget store.
It’s like the XP olive theme with the vista/7 style widgets sidebar - all you need is the RPM style CPU usage gauges.
I’m not sure that clock is big enough
This is very pretty, in a unique way. Great job!
Is that a iOS wallpaper?
Nah, Bing image of the day
Gnome + Dash to Dock + Arc Menu. Nothing too crazy.
You use both light and dark mode? And what’s arc menu?
Yeah, so Gnome has an extension called Night Theme Switcher which automatically changes your background, icons, theme, cursor etc. based on a user-defined day/night schedule. It works great.
Arc Menu is another extension which gives Gnome a standard start menu (since it doesn’t come with one by default) in the top lefthand corner. It also comes with a KRunner-like app launcher that pops up in the middle of the screen instead of using the default Gnome Overview UI.
Both these extensions make Gnome feel a little more natural for desktop use, IMO.
One of the great things I like about GNOME is how much you can customise it.
I find this comment really funny, because while gnome is very customisable compared to the desktop environments in macos and Windows, compared to the majority of DEs/WMs in Linux, it’s not very customisable at all.
Yep Behold KDE and XFCE.
Yeah, the customization might not be as extensive as Plasma, but you can certainly add a ton of extra functionality with extensions.
Could you share your icon theme?
Tela icons.
(if you look at the night theme shot, there are other details of the setup in the terminal output)
Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad
devil wallpaper
not a BSD user
My brain bugged a little when I saw arch linux on the terminal.
Looks nice!
What Firefox css is that?
I honestly don’t remember but I do recall it’s way more of a process than it used to be
KDE plasma 6 on Nobara. breeze with Catpuchin theme and wall paper
Can you link the wallpaper ? :-)
try https://github.com/zhichaoh/catppuccin-wallpapers/blob/main/landscapes/tropic_island_morning.jpg
if you look in the same folder there’s also ones for day, evening, and night
Thank you !
