Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[petran79]

for Linux Mint that is not that new kernel friendly, I resorted to Xanmod kernel that takes better advantage of resources compared to 6.8. I notice some less slowdowns in some Retroarch games for example

I use the LTS 6.12 version because anything above that simply does not boot.

Add also that some Nvidia drivers are finicky with an external vga crt monitor, one reason I stuck to 580.07 and do not update. Laptop is over 8 years old and gtx nvidia support will end soon.

Struck the best balance between old and new.

 

[urbancowboy]

Switched to CachyOS for gaming and love it.

Been using Debian on my non gaming laptop for years. It just werks.

 

[bfinch]

Recently made the hop to ManjaroKDE on my main laptop after windows completely wrecked the partition-scheme in an update and the laptop decided that 16GB ram was just too much and killed it's second DIMM Slot. Been using plain Arch on a work laptop with XFCE and wanted to try something that's stupid simple to use for free-time gaming and side work.

Been solid! Riced it to look vaguely like Windows 7 and called it a day.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

Been solid! Riced it to look vaguely like Windows 7 and called it a day.

your window decoration looks weird because the icons are set to small, there should be an option to make them larger

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my own kde desktop in case i never posted it before

 

[bfinch]

your window decoration looks weird because the icons are set to small, there should be an option to make them larger

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my own kde desktop in case i never posted it before
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Yeah I had them larger but, to me, I like clickable things on my computer to be pretty small

Never really went for perfection more just what's familiar from past machines and intuitivity above all else

I do also eventually plan on switching to OpenBSD or a version of XFCE like my work machine

 

[urbancowboy]

My desktop

 

[semyaza]

tried omarchy
- none of the 3 versions of teamspeak on aur launched ootb something about qapplication
- getting pip errors after just a few boots, i barely touched anything

it seems to me its better to run the base distros

 

[deceptionfalls]

linux setup update!

- back to awesome window manager after a couple months
- new colorscheme
- two wallpapers for each monitor although you cant see my other wallpaper in this
- tmux-centric setup
- custom colorscheme

many more stuff under the hood and i plan to implement a bunch of functionality in this, its a setup that i want to stick to for a very long time

Post automatically merged: Nov 9, 2025

i guess this isnt specifically about setups but i still wanted to share what i got going on right now and maybe help other people with customization