Quoting: HamishI realized I had not posted for May yet:

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I blame bottle feeding lambs.

I admire your consistency, Hamish. No distro-hopping, no trying out all manner of desktop environments or window managers, no fiddling with the layout or the icon theme. You seem to have found what you like and are staying with it. That's rare.

My alt system, assembled from parts which were about to be thrown away. :grin:

I was messing about with the explore mode in Falcon's Eye, so here is June:

Here's mine, wallpaper's on rotation.


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Here's mine:

Trinity Desktop (kde 3.5) if you're wondering
CDE theme, Slick icons

Quoting: bonkmaykrHere's mine:

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Trinity Desktop (kde 3.5) if you're wondering
CDE theme, Slick icons

Just got a little throwback as I starred using Linux decades ago. Thank you :heart:

*Looking at current desktops*

When did everything went downhill and flat again? I really miss KDE 4 though :(

[Some fan-art I liked](https://gears2gnomes.tumblr.com/post/705971845110923264/agdq-2023-bomberman-64-the-second-attack), which was done for the Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 event, where [Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! was speedrun in just over 30 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrPPgfIr2pg). :smile:

Nothing too special for July:

Got up early to finish setting up a system I want to spend a lot of time on. Been a while since I really customized anything. IceWM on Debian with an XP-ish look.

Quoting: chaussettesGot up early to finish setting up a system I want to spend a lot of time on. Been a while since I really customized anything. IceWM on Debian with an XP-ish look.

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Ohhh, it's great to see IceWM! I've always had a soft spot for it, and it's still actively developed.

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This is my PC. I use Catppuccin Mocha on every possible program.

So this time it's a bit more literal (my entry to this thread). I recently got a new GPU, AMD RX 7700 XT, upgraded from my Nvidia GTX 1070. After using it for some time with the Ubuntu 24.04 install I had, 2 days ago I also switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME, that I always wanted to try, but I was afraid of the Nvidia wonkiness I've heard about (now with an AMD GPU that barrier was no longer there).

The performance difference is huge for me with this GPU between the 2 distros.

My desktop is not that different, because most stuff I always set it up more or less the same.

Finally an AMD GPU, drivers now open source and not proprietary, wayland. It's a cool experience, I'm glad I 'took the risk' and splurged for an AMD GPU. I always wanted to try it, but I've had been afraid to part with Nvidia due to my familiarity with it.

I'm also really impressed with openSUSE Tumbleweed as well. It would be hard to make a proper write up, but I just find it so damn impressive, I never could have imagined that I still could be THAT impressed with a Linux distro. It does a lot of stuff really well.

So yeah, new GPU, new OS, new graphics stack, new display protocol (wayland), a lot of new stuff that I'm happy and excited about.



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Quoting: DoctorJunglistSo this time it's a bit more literal (my entry to this thread). I recently got a new GPU, AMD RX 7700 XT, upgraded from my Nvidia GTX 1070. After using it for some time with the Ubuntu 24.04 install I had, 2 days ago I also switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME, that I always wanted to try, but I was afraid of the Nvidia wonkiness I've heard about (now with an AMD GPU that barrier was no longer there).

The performance difference is huge for me with this GPU between the 2 distros.

My desktop is not that different, because most stuff I always set it up more or less the same.

Finally an AMD GPU, drivers now open source and not proprietary, wayland. It's a cool experience, I'm glad I 'took the risk' and splurged for an AMD GPU. I always wanted to try it, but I've had been afraid to part with Nvidia due to my familiarity with it.

I'm also really impressed with openSUSE Tumbleweed as well. It would be hard to make a proper write up, but I just find it so damn impressive, I never could have imagined that I still could be THAT impressed with a Linux distro. It does a lot of stuff really well.

So yeah, new GPU, new OS, new graphics stack, new display protocol (wayland), a lot of new stuff that I'm happy and excited about.

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As a long time openSUSE user who is also running a "version" of Tumbleweed (Aeon and Kalpa) I am still to this day surprised by this system and it is a true miracle. Probably it should opt in for a new world wonder 😅

Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

I totally agree. If you're using Gnome itself, you're fine, but they're really hurting other GTK based desktops. Mint had to downgrade some of the bundled apps for their new release, as the current versions only play nice with libadwaita.

I like to use XFCE on older hardware, and it's quite noticeable.

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Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

Quoting: chaussettes

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

No, I did not forget about August:

I'm still rolling. I'm loving openSUSE Tumbleweed!

Nor September: