#Linux mint Xfce

[fuzzsimp]

Current desktop setup :3

[opensuse-official]

SSH into that boypussy

[coffinsandroses]

feeling kinda limited by 720p tbh (switched to 1366x768 afterwards, tiniest improvement)

[kde-plasma-official]

I have awoken from a dream where I was in my childhood bedroom still running windows 7 and now I want to replicate the look of windows xp or even like 98 on my arch install

Can KDE do this

the "Expose" theme is a pretty okay-ish recreation of the XP Luna theme and there are SVG icons that mimic XP.

If you want to go for 95/98, there's the Chicago95 GTK theme, and plain Windows 9x for Qt.

That said, if you want a really good recreation, try this theme on @mint-offical's Cinnamon or Chicago95 on @xfce-official as they are the desktops where these themes really shine

Hope this helps! ^^

[wylldebee]

After trying out the various different Linux distros (Zorin, Mint, ect) I've finally decided on using Ubuntu for a while. Not as many apps in the store as Zorin and Mint—but it makes up for it in having a wider screen (which works for my shitty eyesight lol), I can go to Pro for free for personal use, and the fans aren't spinning so fast I'm afraid my laptop will take off.

[andresbravo2003]

I can’t tell, but I’m speechless.

[siyurikspakvariisis]

giving my nephew the gift of freedom (installing Linux Mint on his laptop)

[dereego]

Nobody told me Linux Mint felt like it was halfway between Windows 7 and OSX

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

the distant horizons minecraft mod has been working perfectly for me but keeps throwing errors for my gf and my sister and makes the game slow to a crawl for my gf. the only difference between us is that ive definitely allocated 6gb of ram to minecraft and idk if they have, and that im on linux and theyre both on windows*. if i find out the dh dev only uses and tests on linux im gonna be delighted that would be such a stupid reason for it to be a problem

[coffinsandroses]

Tweaked that 00s Konata theme I've unintentionally gone for haha

I made the system font Nokia Sans because I have too much nokia nostalgia and did it before I did all the Konata-ing, and Unispace for the terminal because it kinda looks like the PS2 logo

[abbiistabbii]

I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

Linux is fucking wild.

[bloxxel64colonthree]

so ummm. apt got kinda fucked, then my pc got kinda fucked and now im picking up the pieces and im forced to relearn my desktop cuz xfce reset itself :<

[sl33py-g4m3r]

stupidly like playing the browser version of cookie clicker on Linux Mint~~

especially if I play actively and click the cookie a lot, cinnamon likes to just go black for a second before coming back~~

why do I still play cookie clicker?

running home to take my medicine and I'm like "i should check cookie clicker really fast"

lol

[large-fucking-bird]

Google's chrome OS is linux! It's full of spyware, but technically it's still based on Gentoo! Granted, it's changed so much from where it started that I'm only comfortable saying that becaude of the "technically", but it still retains the Portage package manager, which is one if the big things that differentiates Gentoo from other systems. If you're running a chromebook, you'll be strapped for computing resources, meaning that A, you can learn Gentoo or Arch (considered highly advanced/normal advanced, respectively), or B (probably easier), you can stick to a lightweight distro like Debian (I'd avoid Debian, unless you're cool with years old applications and libraries) or Mint XFCE (my personal preference, I just like mint :3).

edit: I should really proofread my posts ._.

i guess i gotta learn linux now

[vvatchword]

As you may recall, I got the Linux Mint distro for my old netbook, which has 250 GB HDD, 2 GB of RAM, and the Intel Atom N455 (1.66 GHz). This netbook has always been cheap and terrible but I find myself repeatedly needing to access a Not-Phone for various purposes in very strange places and hey, the money's been spent, I can just use this thing, right?

Anyway, Linux Mint has been a terrible idea. 2 GB of RAM is on its low end and DAMN do I feel it. The internet hurts. Word processing hurts. Manuskript hurts. Obviously, this means I chose the wrong distro.

But looking at other low-end distros is terrifying. They're for more advanced users and my Linux know-how is shit. xfce and LxQT expect me to know what I'm doing. I need to get this fixed up in a few days and what if it doesn't work for what I need?

My goal is to use spreadsheets and word processors, Manuskript, and the internet. I'm going to install some further add-ons to Firefox to disable scripts etc. I don't think my Internet experience will ever be stellar, but I would like to access pages within you know. a minute or two.

Another possibility is that I could buy a laptop before Our Wise White Leader uberfucks our collective shit. If I do that I'll have to act fast. Like today fast. Shit is selling like hotcakes for exactly the reasons you can imagine.

At one point I looked up the Macbook Pro, which frankly is one of the best products for graphic design, and it's like. what was I THINKING. I am unemployed. Where am I gonna get money like that

I thought about trying to crowdfund but that just seems... idk. It feels like a want and not a need. It's just that I keep having to leave my desktops behind so often, which has never historically been a problem until literally the last two years. Why does this KEEP HAPPENING. Should I lean into it and just admit I'm homeless

Do you guys have any opinions

should I just throw myself into a pit of lions perhaps

[m00n-sh]

went from not knowing what a vm was to running Linux (mint) full time in a year. nice

next plans are xfce + awesomewm on a vm as i wanna test tiling wm and some other stuff. probably on mint as well if it works out cause im familiar with it and want to put it on my main pc.

I wanna test manjaro at some point too. and another debian-based distro that is not ubuntu