Finally, I'll pitch in here, too! Last weekend I got an extremely good deal on a used ThinkPad that I simply couldn't pass up. After replacing the smallish ssd and some tinkering I'm satisfied with my little XFCE setup.

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Last edited by sourpuz on 28 Sep 2024 at 4:14 pm UTC

For October:
!Aeon Desktop with Gnome 46

Now that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

For October:
!Aeon Desktop with Gnome 46

Last edited by sourpuz on 5 Oct 2024 at 7:04 pm UTC

Now that's a full dock, fellow German! And 11 TB of space! I'm officially impressed. Are those good old mechanical hdds? I use those for bulk storage.

For October:
!Aeon Desktop with Gnome 46

Some yes some not. Actually these are 3 BtrFS file system which do consist of:

1TB M.2 (root + home)
1TB + 1TB Sata SSDs (Datalake 1)
4TB + 4 TB HDDs (Datalake 2)

For October:
!Aeon Desktop with Gnome 46

Simon Stålenhag? You have great taste in art!

!link
Here.

My typical Xfce4 setup using one of the themes I've made for it:

!Millennium

Last edited by Sliver-X on 9 Oct 2024 at 3:30 am UTC

Still using MATE desktop. Rock solid Desktop Environment. Theme info is on the right side in terminal.
Was lazy to blur the GOL discord, but those are all public channels so it shouldn't be an issue

!https://i.imgur.com/7ovXBsj.png

Last edited by Xpander on 9 Oct 2024 at 7:05 am UTC

My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of)

!link

My good old 7 year old distro, still going strong (sort of)

!link

Race? :D Mine is over 11 years old :)

xpander@archlinux ~ $ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

I admittedly can't quite match that:
[hamish@NERV ~]$ grep -a -m1 filesystem /var/log/pacman.log 
[2015-11-24 00:09] [ALPM] installed filesystem (2015.09-1)
[hamish@NERV ~]$ 

!https://www.deviantart.com/hamishpaulwilson/art/October-2024-Desktop-Arch-Linux-and-Xfce-1109080154

Rolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!
!link

Or rather .. tumbling? Okay, I'll show myself out.

I have a question: I like Tumbleweed, but I've always wondered: since rolling release distros are always on the cutting edge of (in this case) Gnome development, don't extensions break quite often, because they don't work with the newest Gnome version yet?
You seem to have several extensions running.

Rolling with openSUSE Tumbleweed!
!link

Breakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

Last edited by DoctorJunglist on 13 Oct 2024 at 4:42 pm UTC

Thanks for the long answer! I was asking because I've returned to Tumbleweed on my laptop and I was wondering about whether to use extensions. I quite like the vanilla Gnome experience, the only thing I really need are the AppIndicators in the top panel, for Steam and some other apps.

Breakage only happens on major GNOME release upgrades (eg GNOME 45 >>> GNOME 46), it generally doesn't happen on point releases (eg GNOME 46 >>> GNOME 46.1).

GNOME gets a new major release twice a year.

Whether one gets hit with breakage depends on various factors - how many extensions do they use, are the extensions still maintained (If they stopped being maintained, did someone else step in to do the work), how well are they maintained, did GNOME make some major changes that require a lot of work / time for an extension dev.

In part it also depends on a distro one uses - usually once a new major GNOME version releases, it usually takes some time for all the extensions to get updated, so If a distro someone uses gets the new GNOME release really early, chances are some of the extensions weren't yet updated.

Sometimes extensions keep working without having an additional update, and it's a matter of bypassing the compatibility check for a GNOME extension (you can do it globally for all extensions, or you can just edit the metadata.json file of a particular extension, and add in the number of the current GNOME version to bypass it that way).

This recent upgrade to GNOME 47 was particularly smooth, and all my extensions worked, albeit for some of them I had to install a github release (they weren't yet published on the GNOME extensions website), and for a few of them I had to edit metadata.json and add "47" to the list of GNOME versions.

!link
skittered back to an ubuntu-based distro after suffering a catastrophic failure on fedora. yippeeeeeeeeeee

Everything still going smoothly on my Tumbleweed install. I absolutely adore this distro.

!link

!link

Forgot November, here we go. Still rolling Aeon Desktop.

!Aeon Desktop Screenshot
!Aeon Desktop Screenshot

and my Laptop. Both are my daily drivers.

!Aeon Desktop Screenshot
!Aeon Desktop Screenshot

Last edited by Vortex_Acherontic on 16 Nov 2024 at 2:08 pm UTC

!link
Old wallpaper I had to look for again after watching console modding videos. it's neat

Last edited by pilk on 17 Nov 2024 at 3:33 am UTC

!link
Old wallpaper I had to look for again after watching console modding videos. it's neat

That wallpaper is lit!