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After seeing Brodie Robertson’s video on Oxygen’s progress…

I went full-on Oxygen.

  • Bottom/Top Panels: Panel Colorizer
  • Global Theme: Oxygen Dark
  • Colors: Oxygen Dark Wombat
  • Application Style: Oxygen
  • Plasma Style: Oxygen
  • Window Decorations: Oxygen
  • Icons: Yet Another Monochrome Icon Set
  • Wallpaper: Made By Me

I had changed my Wallpaper just this morning and now changed again to this one :see_no_evil_monkey:
Dam you @UncleSpellbinder!! :joy:

:rofl:

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I went full-on Oxygen on my openSUSE Tumbleweed install as well. :grin:

  • Bottom Panel: Panel Colorizer
  • Global Theme: Oxygen Dark
  • Colors: Oxygen Dark Wombat
  • Application Style: Oxygen
  • Plasma Style: Oxygen
  • Window Decorations: Oxygen
  • Icons: Yet Another Monochrome Icon Set
  • Wallpaper: Made By Me

I did the same as @UncleSpellbinder and went full Oxygen theme on my new build. I’m liking the window effects of the Oxygen theme, but I still prefer the window widgets of Klassy.
I got a great deal on a “refurb” (just box damage) Minisforum UM890. It’s dead quiet and an ideal workstation.

Updated (changed) the wallpaper on my ArchBang install. Monkeys interest/fascinate me so this wallpaper suits me fine.

It’s a really good machine :slightly_smiling_face:


Decided to give Fedora a chance. Installation went well, only hicup was during installation of Nvidia driver when driver installed and even though MOK-key hassle went like it should, I got error at the boot for module not loading; solved this by uninstalling and then reinstalling driver and now everything works. I assume this is partly because I have hybrid graphics.

So far everything has worked and have not touched much of terminal. I can understand why this is considered solid one. :ok_hand:

Monitor on the left is my new 4k one, running at 150% scaling, the left is my 1440p monitor at 100% scaling.

Recent Proton/Wine updates have meant I’m able to reliably run Guild Wars 2 at a normal UI size again, and WoW is even playing ball(ish) now at 4k!

Mind you I have to use Gnome for WoW, because KWin is still buggy when it comes to that game, causing it to freeze for about 5 secs before reloading the game assets every once in a while, and Mutter seems to be less troublesome.

The Wine update to allow full fractional scaling in games was a massive one, because I’d actually had to re-install Win11 just so I could play GW2 with a UI that was large enough to read. But now that’s fixed I’m back full time in Linux, THANK GOD.

Also installed Kew, which is the first time I’ve ever used a CLI-based music player, which seems nice. Didn’t realise quite how many soundtracks I owned in Steam. Needless to say they’ll all get dumped into my /music folder for listening :smiley:

Fresh run, stepping back to core Arch.

Catppuccin Mocha Flamingo and Macchiato as the base again (tweaked to #161622).

  • IBM Plex Sans (Medium for both Sans and Mono) and Nerd Fonts Symbols.
  • Slot Dark iconset
  • Artwork : Alena Aenami
  • Application Style : Breeze
  • Window Decos : Plastik

So yeah… having considered many options, I decided I would go back to Mint.
At this point, I don’t know if there’s a better option for an “emergency” OS.

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Mint is a solid OS, put it on some aged relative’s laptop, haven’t heard a peep.

eos cinnamon on a brand new Acer** 27" open box steal from Ebay…love the real estate of 27 Life…

**this monitor came backlit like a police interrogation room so had to mute the holy hell out of with redshift to dial down the intensity

Purposely searched for a new wallpaper just to post in this thread today. :stuck_out_tongue:


Wow. This genuinely might be the best Light Theme rice I’ve seen lately :heart_eyes:

Wallpaper + Colors :100: :raising_hands:

Mint is really nice. My only issue is that on my laptop I currently have I never have been able to get systems own brightness control working. Had to install applet for that. My guess it’s because X11 and my hybrid graphics card (integrated AMD+NVIDIA). Maybe adoption of Wayland will fix that in the end.

Thanks @Biotico1974 :smiley:

Installed Artix lxde openrc on my main laptop. Of course I am running openbox wm on it with oxygen-icons, oxygen-cursors, Mikachu window border and my own “custom” menu. I find it faster than some (but not all) of the other Arch based distros that it is multibooted along side of.