Neowin's GNU/Linux 2025 Desktop Thread

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 09/02/2025 at 17:38, Arceles said:

Moved all my PCs to KDE. KDE is and feels better than gnome now.

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Good for you. I moved from XFCE to KDE. And never looked back. There's several DEs based off GNOME, but nothing is based off KDE. Why they are so polished.

[adrynalyne]

  On 09/02/2025 at 20:55, Mindovermaster said:

Good for you. I moved from XFCE to KDE. And never looked back. There's several DEs based off GNOME, but nothing is based off KDE. Why they are so polished.

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Nitrux is. 

[Apollo13]

  On 09/02/2025 at 17:38, Arceles said:

Moved all my PCs to KDE. KDE is and feels better than gnome now.

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I disagree, KDE feels like it's 1995 all over again still for me.  It's a personal preference: I just like the way GNOME flows and how basic it is.  KDE over complicates things IMO.  Glad you like it though! Looks great!

 

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 09/02/2025 at 23:40, Apollo13 said:

I disagree, KDE feels like it's 1995 all over again still for me.  It's a personal preference: I just like the way GNOME flows and how basic it is.  KDE over complicates things IMO.  Glad you like it though! Looks great!

 

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You can theme KDE the same way you can GNOME. I don't really see the difference here.

[Arceles]

  On 09/02/2025 at 23:40, Apollo13 said:

I disagree, KDE feels like it's 1995 all over again still for me.  It's a personal preference: I just like the way GNOME flows and how basic it is.  KDE over complicates things IMO.  Glad you like it though! Looks great!

 

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You might be right in your comment looking at how I themed my KDE. Somehow windows got this right in the 95/NT/2000 era, squared, easy to see buttons and overall layout. Antiquated? yes, fully functional, hell yeah.

[Apollo13]

Gnome was being very unstable...so KDE it is!

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 01/03/2025 at 08:32, Apollo13 said:

Gnome was being very unstable...so KDE it is!

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Xero, nice!

I ran that distro for a good 2 months, wasn't too impressed with it.

[Apollo13]

  On 01/03/2025 at 19:33, Mindovermaster said:

Xero, nice!

I ran that distro for a good 2 months, wasn't too impressed with it.

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The guy that maintains it has put a LOT of time into it and it's VERY good right now!  It just works, so I am not fighting the machine when I need to do what I need to do, I can just relax and enjoy computing and not worry about stuff not working.  That and he has a discord now where he will fully supports his users.

https://links.xerolinux.xyz/

 

Edited March 1 by Apollo13

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 01/03/2025 at 20:25, Apollo13 said:

The guy that maintains it has put a LOT of time into it and it's VERY good right now!  It just works, so I am not fighting the machine when I need to do what I need to do, I can just relax and enjoy computing and not worry about stuff not working.  That and he has a discord now where he will fully supports his users.

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ArcoLinux maker has 1000s of YouTube videos. How configure this and that.

[Apollo13]

  On 01/03/2025 at 20:31, Mindovermaster said:

ArcoLinux maker has 1000s of YouTube videos. How configure this and that.

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Yeah I believe the maintainers of both Distros are friends... collaborators so to speak

[spacelordmaster]

Linux Mint with Sweet Theme and custom-made wallpaper - I made it.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 04/03/2025 at 03:03, spacelordmaster said:

Linux Mint with Sweet Theme and custom-made wallpaper - I made it.

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That wallpaper is killer, dude! Nice job.

[spacelordmaster]

  On 04/03/2025 at 05:41, Mindovermaster said:

That wallpaper is killer, dude! Nice job.

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Here you go sir. You may have a copy of it. 😄

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

  On 04/03/2025 at 16:50, spacelordmaster said:

Here you go sir. You may have a copy of it. 😄

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Thank you, sir!

[Apollo13]

Arch Linux still,  latest CachyOS kernel, newest Nvidia driver and Gnome 48! All good stuff!

  On 04/03/2025 at 16:50, spacelordmaster said:

Here you go sir. You may have a copy of it. 😄

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Do you have a high res version of this? IT's BEAUTIFUL!

[spacelordmaster]

  On 20/03/2025 at 22:22, Apollo13 said:

Arch Linux still,  latest CachyOS kernel, newest Nvidia driver and Gnome 48! All good stuff!

Do you have a high res version of this? IT's BEAUTIFUL!

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I do not sir but I will give you an idea which is what I did. Go here and get this open-source app and it will let you increase it to High Res.

https://upscayl.org/