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[mellemur]

Not much of a visual update but I did change up… a lot of things that are not visual.

Long-ish story time.

About 28 hours ago I decided for sure that I wanted to try out another distribution. I want something that works seamlessly with GNOME, including Software and Settings, so I thought hey why not Fedora or Debian! Cue me undergoing 12 hours of pulling hair and numerous roadblocks, including an initial (relatively) sucessful Fedora Minimal install with language support and language display issues, multiple failed Debian installs mostly due to the Graphical expert installer terminal and eventually BTRFS layouting & FSTAB, one successful install (using the non-graphical expert installer) that went kaput due to unexpected crash during upgrade to testing (honestly I still don’t know what happened LOL - spent like an hour trying to fix it via rescue but gave up), and one successful install (using the Live Calamares installer this time because I was exhausted) that upgraded to testing very smoothly (oh, and also systemd-boot!). Then… I realized yeah currently Debian testing can’t give me what I want, many things considered. So I went to sleep, woke up, booted into Fedora Everything again at 10 and was pretty much finished with shedding unused Workstation packages, installing my regular utilities, and media playback stuff at 2. Thanks, developing country internet speeds.

I love(d) my Arch EOS (whoops! Not sure why I wrote Arch) install, it was stable, fast, relatively low maintenance and gave me valuable learning experiences, but at the moment I’m looking for an even lower-maintenance system with more point-and-click approach. Anyways! I’m back to my familiar desktop, with Wireguard switches two clicks away, and systemd-boot as usual. Now with better app integrations in Settings and Software, more convenient fingerprint authentication, and a fancy Fedora logo right under the boot-up Lenovo logo. Oh… and an almost doubled installed packages count.

P.S.: I would have chosen SIlverblue instead because my fingerprint sensor drivers finally work with it now, but alas, GRUB!

[UncleSpellbinder]

Arch Gnome 46 (Wayland) on my laptop.

[rinwolf1312]

Was inspired to check out LMDE again, and my partner really wanted something with a graphical package management option, so here we are. Putting into the art room (hence the name) as a secondary setup for printing, blender, krita, etc.

Art stuff.

[winnyace]

NGL, I might go to Linux Mint when Mint 22 releases. I tried LMDE but I feel like it misses the Linux Mint spark (i.e the GUI apps for literally everything regarding system maintenance). I’m starting more and more to want something that just works.

[i3user]

why 22 release? whats so interesting about it?

[winnyace]

It will be based on Ubuntu 24.04, which will have newer packages than the current version of LMDE 6 and of course of Linux Mint 21.3 (I think that’s the current version), at least I think.

[blind_confused]

love the icon theme here, very consistent and cozy.

[rinwolf1312]

Thanks! It’s all default One of my favorite features of Mint’s themes is color-coding directories.

[rinwolf1312]

I can understand wanting those extra tools, for sure. I’m really enjoying it as a Debian system + more updated and customized Cinnamon experience.

[mayhem]

love the colors.

PS: should be an offense to not link to wallpapers when uploading rice . both you and noodly have some great wallpapers

[smokey]

@mayhem

PS: should be an offense to not link to wallpapers

Haha, reverse image searching is your friend

[swh]

I got the wallpapers from this github repository.

GitHub - zDyanTB/aesthic-wallpapers: My collection of wallpapers

[pebcak]

Deepin

[ycom1]

[IDKnix]

edited some stuff, really only the wallpaper and some polybar fixes and added starship.

[ycom1]

[JKMooney]

No desktop to share this time but, found this artist on DeviantArt that may be of interest to this thread.

https://www.deviantart.com/vv-ave

Sample of her work below, happy ricing

[rinwolf1312]

I might go back to Cinnamon on my Endeavour install. This has been a joy to use so far

[Noodly]

I did a bit of fiddling around with Panel Colorizer.

[smokey]

Thats really nice, I like the Mars Attacks reference at the bottom of your fastfetch