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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fire
oh you little fucker
Dope lol
This is my my phone running Debian with XFCE:
KDE + AeroThemePlasma
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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
Aero will never die!
Long live Aero
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
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.
Punched right in the feelings
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.
I’d love that theme in my industrial equipment. Such a clear and concise visual language.
Ah, that makes sense with it being a foldable. As for the theme, each to their own, I guess.
What foldable are you using?
And how easy/hard was it to geht Linux running on it?
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!
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 modern phone running Linux, riced to look like 90s Windows.
Oh that’s CRIMINAL.
Oh I love it.
Jazz jackrabbit and Winamp ❤️❤️
I was born on 96’ but I have to say this picture made me happy
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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.
Lol link me the phone natively displaying this
Based on the neofetch it’s a Samsung Fold Z 4
how do you do that?
XFCE + Chicago95 theme + some theme tweaks here and there
Gnome + Dash to Dock + Arc Menu. Nothing too crazy.
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)
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.
<3 my pinephone pro
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
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!
Just XFCE
is coot
coot?
=cute
Did you install a theme? That looks different to the XFCE I use on my Ubuntu VM.
Yes, I installed Catppuccin theme and Bibata Modern Cursor. What I mean with “Just XFCE” was that I didn’t install any other software to add features.
Stuff here is:
- Hyprland: Window Manager
- Waybar: Status bar
- Kitty: Terminal
- Neovim: Editor
- swww: Wallpaper daemon (Image (archive.org link, scroll down) is a promotional wallpaper for Slime Rancher)
Workspace 3, which I actually use:
Additional stuff here:
- ncmpcpp: front-end for mpd (Music Player Daemon)
- Newsboat: rss reader
The pretty wallpaper and Catppuccin Mocha theme terminal carry the looks quite a bit tbh.
Slime Rancher!
Beautiful.
That part: yes.
The part that I look at the most: eh
This is gorgeous!!!
so cute!!
I need that wallpaper! Is there a way you could provide me that?
Wonderful thank you so much!
me too please
I never understood why people make their linux distros look like mac
The obvious answer is people who grew up using Macs tend to like the Ui and workflow.
Even though I’ve never enjoyed my times using MacOS, I’ll still sell being able to perfectly clone it’s desktop as a feature of Linux for those who do.
Its looks fancy and feels nice. Its really just a theme so everything else works the same. Everyone has different things they like.
I hate Apple but macOs is always super well.designed. if you wann know what Windows will look like in 5-6 years, look at the current macOs version.
I wouldn’t use a complete macos theme with the logo and everything, but the mac design language does have some pretty nice details that even help usability.
For example, I love the double outline that macos windows have, the normal darker line and another lighter inside. To me, it really separates windows when I am working with several, and they overlap (I use mac at work), in addition to looking nice and giving some depth. That’s just a little detail, but there are many like that one that is easy to see why someone could appreciate them.
Obviously it varies from person to person, there’s also stuff that I don’t like, but I do can see why someone would use a theme like that.
Themes and DEs inspired by Mac tend to have a very clear and consistent design language IME
Gnome also falls into the clear and consistent camp too.
I value consistency a lot
It looks nice. I still prefer the functionality and responsiveness of Linux though, and I didn’t clone every feature of the macOS UI.
It kinda makes sense to me; my KDE desktop is basically set up like Windows in terms of layout (not theming). It’s what I’m used to and prefer the familiarity.
I can imagine people who are used to MacOS like the familiarity of GUI layout and the aesthetics too. Also in fairness to Apple, it is an aesthetically pleasing desktop even if the layout and GUI elements (such as the dock or the top menu bar) isn’t what I like.
MacOS is very user friendly (in my use-case. Everyone has different needs). I like they layout of the top bar, the dock front and center, the fullscreen “launchpad” as opposed to a start menu, etc. To each their own.
Well, here’s my little piece of ugly:
Edit: And as for Termux:
Cool train! Thats in Slovakia right?
Yep.
Just to clarify (just in case), I am only the person behind camera.
vomits
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 ;_;
Well, mine looks like Windows XP, but not.
I’m not sure that clock is big enough
This is very pretty, in a unique way. Great job!
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 like the widgets
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.
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
Looks nice!
You don’t have a dock or top bar? Is everything keyboard shortcuts?
It’s probably hidden panels. Because why use KDE if you’re not going to use it?
The panels are hidden.
Just did a fresh install of EndeavourOS with KDE 6…still using the same theme I’ve been using on 5.27 for months. I call it ‘Windows 7 but better’
And yes I deleted my last comment while figuring out how embedding images actually works >.>
That’s a nice wallpaper. Where did you get it?
I found it a while back just searching through duckduckgo images and threw it into the folder of wallpapers I’ve been hording
What’s that Steam theme?
You have to use SFP to use skins on Steam now sadly.
Millenium is gonna be ported to linux soon, which is a better utility than SPF
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It used to be a standard feature within Steam itself for the longest time but Valve kept breaking it with updates and a while back just removed the feature entirely >.>
Pretty simplistic, but I really like it :)
- Arch
- Hyprland
- Lots of dracula
I use dracula for everything too! Thank you so much for sharing!
not a fan of that font, but cool setup
It’s Monocraft, monospaced version of Minecraft font, makes me very nostalgic. First tried it for fun and giggles, but it stuck
