#linux customization

[anubiarts]

i've already tried a skeuomorphic style for my desktop, so it was time to go to the other, minimalist end

konsave my beloved

[indeedgoodman]

[multishipper-baby]

I've been playing around with making FHS themes for my linux with pywal so here are a few that I liked :)

Credits:

Eakwynn by @loopscereal

Villains by @valtoiddd

Owynn by @threepoint14art

Fred and Freddy by @chocottang

Meg by @10hourshift

[bauhausdog]

this may be an unpopular opinion but software should be a lot, a looooooooooooooot more sustainable than it is right now, the drive for profit forces consumers to throw away old devices for new ones, this is so horribly wasteful it's offensive

have you tried it a custom windows version before? a windows pc that needs at least 25 gb could be in just plain 8gb, you need 8gb of ram at least? a custom made windows could run under 1.5gb or so.

this is a world of difference for people from low income countries who have low end devices, its the difference from barely running software to a fully working machine

Remember jailbreak and rooting? the phone modding community is still going, there are multiple projects to run a customized version of android, people are even trying to put linux on it, there are even indie phone manufacturers now!!!!!!!!!!, you could buy right now a phone that is not from a big company, but why all of this? to get away from android/samsung/apple as much as possible and reclaim hardware as our own.

a lot of devices that reached end of commercial life is still going thanks to efforts like these.

If possible, please learn phone modding and get a bit tech savvy with custom os, maybe even give linux a try, learn how to install f droid and install super lightweight and privacy respecting apps, use firefox or similar to get an adblocker, the world of tech can be way way less resource and money intensive than you think

[sunmaybedoesthings]

Installed Arch today, got any tips?

[july-19th-club]

one thing about being in too much pain to uphold social niceties (period and it's a bad one) is that i did spend all day at work not only doubled over and moving at a pace the ninety year old library ladies were lapping but i was even worse than usual at tasks like Looking At People Who Are Chewing Gum and "not edging away bugeyed when a coworker stands close next to me" and of course the perennial favorite "keeping track of more than three words spoken to me in a row and responding to that" and we'll let me merely say. it is just me and that murderbot. nobody else in this whole damn library understands

[sevenfactorial]

We've been doing stuff in matlab this semester in differential eqs and our professor doesn't post code cause he doesn't want us to copy paste? But he did post screenshots of his code.

I have other... questions about his teaching coding methodology, but today, one of my classmates mentioned the colors of the text while we were working on stuff.

Frankly, his theme is awful. It's a dark theme with symbols in a relatively dark green and numbers in (bright) orange and everything else (including comments) in white.

The other person there at the time is colorblind so I described it to him and his reaction was essentially "what do you mean??" He'd assumed it was something reasonable and it was his colorblindness making it difficult to read, but nope! It's just bad even if you have all the appropriate cones.

[drgairyuki]

Ok. I'd manage to install Linux Mint ISO onto my new flashdrive with balenaEtcher.

I also learn something new today;

Newsflash: Apparently, Linux Mint downloaded with torrent doesn't work on balenaEtcher... at least on my end. I don't know if that's normal or not, but that's just what I found out today and learn the hard way while trying to transfer operating system from Linux Ubuntu to Linux Mint.

Just in case if anyone wanted to do the same like me.

[linuxscoop]

Ubuntu 24.04 Customization | Customize Your Ubuntu 24.04 Look Like macOS

Want to give your Ubuntu 24.04 a sleek macOS makeover? It's easier than you think! With installing a few simple tweaks, you can transform your Ubuntu 24.04 desktop into a macOS-inspired masterpiece.

First, check out this YouTube tutorial for the final result of Ubuntu 24.04 resembling macOS. Then, follow the step-by-step guide in this video to make your Ubuntu 24.04 look like macOS.

To get started, download and install the file resources GNOME macOS lookalike from this resource. These will form the foundation of your macOS-inspired customization.

Enhance the macOS feel further by configuring GNOME extensions such as Dash to Dock and other GNOME extensions. The extensions will help replicate the macOS user interface on your Ubuntu 24.04 system.

For additional resources and documentation, visit this link. You can also download an auto-customization script from here to streamline the customization process.

Give your Ubuntu 24.04 a fresh new look with these macOS-inspired customization tips!

[maplethesilly]

My fedora GNU/linux "rice" (really just gnome with a dock)

[frog-kisser]

does anyone have the picture of that custom keyboard someone made with all the extra keys for C++ and Linux characters/commands? It was orange and black and I Want To Have Sex With It

[kon-konk]

Y'all my lil writing laptop didn't come with an os (it cost me $25 before shipping and taxes, okay?) soooo I'm taking the opportunity to put Linux on it

[snarp]

scrot and Flameshot and gnome-screenshot do not have sub-second timestamping because everyone in the whole world is a bitch forever

scrot -u 'Pictures/%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S %L.jpg'

=> "Pictures/2025-04-25 14-48-20 %L.jpg"

^ Bitchly Behavior

(DON'T tell me to

scrot -u "Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S_%3N).jpg"

because Bash Behavior also makes me mad.)

[all-hail-trudos]

I'm two seconds away from nuking my file system altogether and reinstalling Kubuntu, or just throwing in the towel and going back to Windows with my tail between my legs.

Can't get past the login screen. Put in password, everything freezes. Try logging in through recovery mode, get past login screen but now I get a black screen and a mouse cursor.

Systemctl says my page file didn't load but I can't tell if I should trust that because I'm only able to access my console through recovery mode. Also I've officially run out of spoons to deal with this.

Windows never did this shit to me. I've been enjoying Linux, but when it fails, IT FAILS.

[communist-octoling]

Minecraft Java players when Mojang fixes a bug that only affects a small part of the game: OMG LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!!1! MOJANG HATES JAVA CLEARLY BEDROCK IS THEIR FAVORITE!!!1!!!1! :( Minecraft Bedrock players when Mojang changes a perfectly fine part of the game to be more like Java for no reason for the thousandth time: Well, as long as its for parity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[brandinotbroke]

just booted into windows for the first time in over a month and WHY THE FUCK IS IT SO SLOW