As God intended!

While I only have one PC I did write over my old Windows drive about a month ago, I haven’t loaded into Windows 10 in nearly a year and I fear how many updates it would have forced upon me at once…

I’ve been playing around with it in a VM and thinking of throwing over my old Windows drive I haven’t used in months to see how well it works on my actual hardware.

Getting Pipewire setup on it has been a pain in VM and all the fixes others posted online haven’t helped me.

I don’t even have an OLED display for my desktop and I’ve still preferred pure black background for the longest time.

I’m glad dark mode is a standard unlike 10+ years ago when you had to hack it in yourself most of the time. But Ui designers just seemed to be afraid of trying anything outside the standards Google/Apple etc put in place.

If one is good then two should be like…double the good right?

Only modern Ui trend I’ve enjoyed is dark mode, I remember using WindowBlinds back on Win7 to make my own dark mode but it still keeping the Aero look.

KDE with Volatile + Avalon icons have been the closest I’ve gotten to the look I really want on modern systems.

Honestly I found EndeavourOS to be a lot more stable than Pop_OS, but I thought that was just a me thing so I still recommended it to a friend who was trying out Linux for the first time.

They ran into SO many weird issues and were just fighting with the Ui in general, Apparently Pop removed the option to make new text files using the right click menu?

Eventually me and another friend just told them to switch to EndeavourOS with KDE since it’s what both of us were using and it’s been a lot smoother sailing since.

I can’t live without Oxygen.

Just recently started using Avalon, Before that I was just using a Windows 7 icon pack because I really hate flat themes.

Glad to see some non-flat themes starting to spring up again.

I use KDE now but during my time with Gnome I fell in love with FlyPie. It replaced all my desktop shortcuts and even a lot of stuff I would normally keep in the start menu.

As someone who’s been trying to avoid flat UIs since IOS 7 dropped, I was pleasantly surprised to find the Oxygen pre-installed on KDE still.

They will not flatten us!

I’m still a pretty new Linux user.

Been running EndeavourOS for over 2 months because it’s the distro I’ve had the least amount of problems with.

I ran PopOS for 3 weeks before but experienced a lot of audio issues and had my install break to a point I couldn’t recover it. Glad I gave Linux a 2nd try after that, I haven’t had to switch to my Windows drive a single time since installing Endeavour.