Neowin's 2023 Desktops Thread

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I'm enjoying the Linux desktops, good job! Shame there's so few here you have to have a 'yearly' thread, the old monthly threads were absolute FIRE!

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Anyway, here's mine, throwback to when we used to mod the old Windows XP and Win7 desktops to within an inch of their lives. Those were the days.... my boy, I could tell you, I could tell you all about it, but you wouldnt understand. 

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On 01/11/2023 at 19:31, forster said:

I'm enjoying the Linux desktops, good job! Shame there's so few here you have to have a 'yearly' thread, the old monthly threads were absolute FIRE!

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Anyway, here's mine, throwback to when we used to mod the old Windows XP and Win7 desktops to within an inch of their lives. Those were the days.... my boy, I could tell you, I could tell you all about it, but you wouldnt understand. 

I was there and I LOVED those days! ❤️

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On 01/11/2023 at 12:31, forster said:

I'm enjoying the Linux desktops, good job! Shame there's so few here you have to have a 'yearly' thread, the old monthly threads were absolute FIRE!

Clipboard01.thumb.jpg.7a56300d140a2230c0ac1fbbd4863e11.jpg

Anyway, here's mine, throwback to when we used to mod the old Windows XP and Win7 desktops to within an inch of their lives. Those were the days.... my boy, I could tell you, I could tell you all about it, but you wouldnt understand. 

I'm living the dream... running windows xp on a i7 4790k, I ain't letting modern windows to steal my memories of that.

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On 01/11/2023 at 19:31, forster said:

I'm enjoying the Linux desktops, good job! Shame there's so few here you have to have a 'yearly' thread, the old monthly threads were absolute FIRE!

Clipboard01.thumb.jpg.7a56300d140a2230c0ac1fbbd4863e11.jpg

Anyway, here's mine, throwback to when we used to mod the old Windows XP and Win7 desktops to within an inch of their lives. Those were the days.... my boy, I could tell you, I could tell you all about it, but you wouldnt understand. 

I have a few desktop screenshots from my Windows XP days and they are lit IMO (insert more modern words that mentions how cool Windows XP was)

Has anyone else downloaded the WindowsMediaPlayer skins that SkinStudio made now that they are mostly all freely available to download from their website?   

Cool screenie

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On 26/11/2023 at 12:44, forster said:

I just want linux to work... playing with PopOS.

Its either issues with samba, or issues with samba, or issues with samba. FFS. F Samba.

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It sounds like you have issues with samba. 

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On 26/11/2023 at 19:49, adrynalyne said:

It sounds like you have issues with samba. 

Yeah, I really like the immutable OSs but tbh sometimes I just need to modify the file system. I dont know whether Im just not ready for it, or it's not ready for me. I presume the former rather than the latter.

Also I just accidentally wrote over my Windows drive with PopOS... sigh, now when Im reinstalling Windows 11 I'm getting system halts. I presume it's because of my 10gb SFP card, at least it was because of my 10gb ethernet card before... No such blackouts on Pop so Ill just keep using that for now and try and get Baldurs Gate 3 working under Steam/Proton experimental 🏴‍☠️

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On 26/11/2023 at 14:02, forster said:

Yeah, I really like the immutable OSs but tbh sometimes I just need to modify the file system. I dont know whether Im just not ready for it, or it's not ready for me. I presume the former rather than the latter.

Also I just accidentally wrote over my Windows drive with PopOS... sigh, now when Im reinstalling Windows 11 I'm getting system halts. I presume it's because of my 10gb SFP card, at least it was because of my 10gb ethernet card before... No such blackouts on Pop so Ill just keep using that for now and try and get Baldurs Gate 3 working under Steam/Proton experimental 🏴‍☠️

Way to commit 😁

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On 26/11/2023 at 21:07, adrynalyne said:

Way to commit 😁

I just wish I took a backup of my Stardew Valley mods this morning before messing around... sigh, oh well.

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On 26/11/2023 at 20:44, forster said:

Its either issues with samba, or issues with samba, or issues with samba. FFS. F Samba.

Nextcloud can do everything that you do with Samba. And much more. It's easy to use as well.

 

On 02/11/2023 at 11:52, allannyholm said:

I have a few desktop screenshots from my Windows XP days and they are lit IMO (insert more modern words that mentions how cool Windows XP was)

The general desktop layout and workflow of windowsXP are like LXQt.

LXQt has the aero snap feature in many Linux distributions, but almost everyone thinks this is a nice feature that windowsXP didn't have.

I would recommend the LXQt desktop for windowsXP fans.

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On 05/12/2023 at 00:46, FateTrap said:

Nextcloud can do everything that you do with Samba. And much more. It's easy to use as well.

I know, I run it locally with an LXC container in proxmox, and online with a backup of everything important through Linode :)

That being said, it doesnt help with connecting via samba to my NAS, at all lol, so not sure what you're meaning. I use many different machines with different OSs, it's just a trading game as to what I have to give up to get everything working properly. I've also been playing with ISCSI and have pretty much all the issues ironed out at this point, but yeah, Nextcloud is cool!

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On 18/12/2023 at 11:54, ultimate99 said:

Clean!

1. What is that network gauge? How can I enable it?

2. Is that green shield with check mark a VPN? If yes, which one and would you recommend it?

Green shield looks like Adguard, an adblocker. Unsure if they do a VPN also.

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On 18/12/2023 at 05:54, ultimate99 said:

Clean!

1. What is that network gauge? How can I enable it?

2. Is that green shield with check mark a VPN? If yes, which one and would you recommend it?

TrafficMonitor - can download here
https://github.com/zhongyang219/TrafficMonitor/blob/master/README_en-us.md

pretty much just install it, tell it to hide main window and only show taskbar window.

the greenshield is adguard. blocks ads and other things system wide. https://adguard.com

On 18/12/2023 at 10:45, forster said:

Green shield looks like Adguard, an adblocker. Unsure if they do a VPN also.

yup, but no vpn.

On 18/12/2023 at 12:31, Xenon said:

Can I get a link to that wallpaper? Thanks! 

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp6p4x7xnd4vb1.png

np

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