Neowin's GNU/Linux 2025 Desktop Thread

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On 25/03/2025 at 17:26, spacelordmaster said:

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/

 

You should’ve designed the background in a higher resolution rather than rely on an upscaling tool for enhancements.

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First time running Linux in years, using Bluefin. I think this is the only time in my life that I put something on my machine and didn't end up trying 10 other things in the next 3 days.

Anyway, I wanted to share this with someone.

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My update. Didn't see much point in the top panel since global menu isn't there, so going with a win/kde layout now. Overall, I would say Gnome is a disappointment - it's been 15 years and you still have to rely on a bunch of extensions to get anything useful out of it. At the same time, the way Universal Blue / Bluefin is approaching the desktop feels like what Ubuntu should have started doing five years ago (no wonder the guy I learned about this from used to work for Canonical). Maybe I should have gone with Aurora (the KDE variant), or Bazzite with KDE, but I think I have Gnome where it works for me now. 

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First time linux user.  Settled on Fedora 42 Plasma as the KDE options for trackpad scrolling is miles ahead of what I could do in Gnome.  Was waaaaay too sensitive with no easy way to reduce that without going through a gazillion steps.  Fedora 42 Plasma and KDE settings just worked straight out the box. Learning slowly but getting there, got FDE running now with TPM2 unlock of my luks partitions.  Current desktop screen below, basically just copied from a YouTube vid until I try out my own preferences, but I feel it's a pleasing base to start from.

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Gotta start somewhere, bud. Welcome to Linux!

Personally, I wouldn't start with Fedora, but each to their own. I ain't complaining.

Looks nice, though :) 

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On 02/10/2025 at 00:14, svmpatel said:

Current desktop screen below, basically just copied from a YouTube vid until I try out my own preferences, but I feel it's a pleasing base to start from.

Looks really nice, I like how you have ended up making KDE look more like GNOME.

I've ended up making GNOME look more like KDE on Fedora Silverblue with my recent messing about. It really does annoy me how apps look so inconsistent in GNOME though, I might give KDE another try after seeing your screenshot.

 

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Currently running Kubuntu 24.04, tried 25.10, but the rust coreutils was breaking Laravel when trying to create a new site in terminal.

And because I enjoy the old style of KDE, tried to make it look a bit like that!

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