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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Looks fucking awesome!

    There aren’t enough light theme setups out there, and yours looks very clean and well thought out. I especially like that the shadows of the window decorations are better visible on the light theme, that gives it a way better spacial look than on dark ones.

    The only thing I would change personally, if I would copy it, is the right area of the top bar, that one looks a bit too crowded for me compared to the rest of the more minimalist setup.
    I would drag the widgets, except the tray, onto the desktop or so.


    Please also don’t forget to link your themes (and other stuff) used or customized in the post, for others to recreate :)


  • You can still try it. On a not-as-powerful PC it will take a bit longer of course, the only thing I would recommend having is a GPU.
    On a CPU it will take literally ages to create one picture, speaking from experience.

    Just give it a try. Even if your laptop is a bit underpowered, half an hour for a set isn’t a huge problem. Just go cooking or showering in the meantime and let it process in the meanwhile 😁



  • I recommend you to not buy a Chromebook for that specifically. ChromeOS sucks, both in privacy and function.

    I used a MS Surface some time ago with Gnome. If you want a cheap tablet, then maybe buy an used one and slap the silverblue-main-surface-image from universal-blue.org onto it.
    It has the linux-surface drivers already baked in and works ootb.
    On any other distro (e.g. Fedora Workstation) you would have to fiddle with it and it may break due to the custom kernel.
    Besides it being a shitty device (the model I had) and MS not being Linux-friendly, it was alright.
    Sadly, the newer the devices get, the worse the Linux support also gets. But if you’re only after a media consumption device, they’re a good choice if you choose an used older model, e.g. from 2017-2020.

    Preferably, check out the 2-in-1s from the Lenovo ThinkPad series, they’re also pretty good and have excellent Linux support from what I’ve heard.
    They should work under Linux ootb, since Lenovo isn’t blocking its’ usage.

    Gnome is ideally suited for touchscreen use, it was a huge joy to use. You don’t even need a keyboard!
    It looks and functions as an ideal tablet-like UI, and even the on-screen-gestures work the same as on a trackpad.

    If you want Android support, check out Waydroid. Then it really gets you the best out of both worlds, desktop and mobile.