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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.