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What are your favorite desktop customizations?
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I’ve only tried Ubuntu, Mint, and CachyOS.
Didn’t like Ubuntu much, but probably because it was my first Linux attempt and I’d probably understand better now.
Mint is cool, my laptop is running it, but the system settings being individual apps is frustrating, especially when you can’t remember the name of the one you want and there’s 2 display ones? Grrrrr
I like Cachy a lot. I haven’t used it as much as I’ve only put it on a second laptop to use as a media centre in conjunction with Plasma Big Screen, but I’m thinking of switching my laptop over to it because it feels mostly the same in desktop mode, but the system settings are unified and a lot easier to deal with.
(My desktop is still a Mac, I haven’t converted completely sorry)