Neowin's GNU/Linux 2025 Desktop Thread

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 09/02/2025 at 11:38, Arceles said:

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

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 13:55, 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.

Nitrux is. 

[Apollo13]

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

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

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 17:40, 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!

 

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

[Arceles]

On 09/02/2025 at 17:40, 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!

 

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 02:32, Apollo13 said:

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

Xero, nice!

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

[Apollo13]

On 01/03/2025 at 11:33, Mindovermaster said:

Xero, nice!

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

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, 2025 by Apollo13

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 01/03/2025 at 14:25, 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.

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

[Apollo13]

On 01/03/2025 at 12:31, Mindovermaster said:

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

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 03/03/2025 at 21:03, spacelordmaster said:

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

That wallpaper is killer, dude! Nice job.

[spacelordmaster]

On 04/03/2025 at 00:41, Mindovermaster said:

That wallpaper is killer, dude! Nice job.

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

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 04/03/2025 at 10:50, spacelordmaster said:

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

Thank you, sir!

[Apollo13]

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

On 04/03/2025 at 08:50, spacelordmaster said:

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

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

[spacelordmaster]

On 20/03/2025 at 18:22, 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!

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/

 

[Apollo13]

Dark theme for KDE Plasma 6.x.x installer using Orcish Dark theme.  DarkXero of Xero Linux and I put this together this morning! Enjoy!

https://github.com/xerolinux/xero-orchis-dark

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

PopOS with the Fluent theme, Dash to Panel and ArcMenu GNOME extensions.

This is my first attempt at a Linux desktop, the goal is to see if I could set something up I'd be happy to use daily.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 19/04/2025 at 12:38, InsaneNutter said:

PopOS with the Fluent theme, Dash to Panel and ArcMenu GNOME extensions.

 

This is my first attempt at a Linux desktop, the goal is to see if I could set something up I'd be happy to use daily.

Glad you're into the better Linux class!

Looks groovy.

[Blue-Vision]

Been a while since I've put one up, so ...

Garuda Dragonized Gaming KDE. Deets in the terminal!

 

[Farchord]

Fedora KDE 42

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

Could've done a NeoFetch, but no matter.. 😛 

Looks nice!

[redvamp128]

I decided to give Mate a try as it is more snappy than Cinnamon and gives me a kind of classic Linux feel. 

[Nick H. Supervisor]

On 11/04/2025 at 21:46, Apollo13 said:

Dark theme for KDE Plasma 6.x.x installer using Orcish Dark theme.  DarkXero of Xero Linux and I put this together this morning! Enjoy!

https://github.com/xerolinux/xero-orchis-dark

Oh, interesting! I started playing around with a top bar the other day but something seemed a little off. Looking at the screenshot you provided has made me realise where I might be going wrong, thanks!

[RyanB]

Newly install Hyprland on CachyOS