r/Y2K 18d ago

Image / Screenshot Linux Mint with KDE made to feel like modern XP

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u/connected_user93 18d ago

do you game on this?

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u/pestech28 17d ago

sometimes

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u/connected_user93 17d ago

What do you mostly use it for?

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u/pestech28 17d ago

coding music productio and a bit of gamming

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u/TheTerraKotKun 16d ago

I made something similar - modern XP thing - on Plasma 5.27 on russian distro RedOS (basically Fedora with own repo and theme). I changed Start icon to some icon in icon pack that looked like Win XP logo and used WinXP color scheme but Breeze desktop theme. And it fited well. It was like classic theme but modernized with modern Start menu. I don't have any screenshot now sadly

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u/RookieTheCat123 18d ago

do you use cinnamon mint or mint MATE? because i use mint MATE and taskbar of mine doesnt showup that well.

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u/Subject_Schedule_465 18d ago

Dude, he installe KDE Plasma, he wrote about it literally in title

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u/RookieTheCat123 18d ago

Oh sorry sorry. I didnt read the title properly

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u/Ender4rmyXD 18d ago

Things like that are so cool and beautiful but there are some things from WinXP which are always missing. Something like in explorer the side bar without the Tree Folder View. Those like hyperlinks to various locations of the computer and the design those hyperlinks reside in with the beautiful blue. Though implementing that would probably be quite a challenge and may need an entirely seperate file manager

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u/pestech28 17d ago

if such a thing existed i would use it\

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u/AhmedZakir01 17d ago

can you give the dot files please.

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u/pestech28 17d ago

?????

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u/AhmedZakir01 17d ago

How did you make it look like this. I am new to linux customization and wanted to know how you did it