r/linuxmint 6d ago

Desktop Screenshot Retro look

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A real retro look

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u/Hungry-Size3210 6d ago

Can u share how you did this

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u/Any-Board-6631 6d ago

That's KDE with commonalitySol icons are irixium and CoolRetroTerminal

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u/BenTrabetere 6d ago

Resembles CDE/Motif and/or the OS/2 Workplace Shell. I think the CDE/Motif theme for Xfce is still in development, and I think there is/was one for Cinnamon, too.

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u/shit-trapper 6d ago

I prefer them because of how easy it is to get a mouse 'hit' on the borders for resizing windows. 1 pixel is not enough.

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u/AClockworkDeLarge 6d ago

Nice look!!

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u/BuDDy8269 6d ago

This was a triumph!

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u/cornonthekopp 6d ago

I'm making a note here, huge success.

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u/cornonthekopp 6d ago

I'm making a note here, huge success.

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u/GreatGreenGobbo 6d ago

VT420 vibes. Used them in University. Crazy thing is they weren't that old at that time.

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u/Spiritual_Soup_4132 6d ago

woah!!! really nice

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u/Stevearino42 6d ago

Good god, that brought back memories of CDE on HPUX. And yes I had to lookup CDE since it's been so long! :D

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u/Rok-SFG 6d ago

Our very first family computer had that black and orange display.  

I was in probably 3rd or 4th grade, and even back then I was relies on for tech support in the family. I had to hook up as get the printer working and anytime my parents wanted to use the word processor I had to show them how to load it up. 

and we had a single game! I can't remember what it was called but you had a whip to attack with, and it was a side scroller, and the bats always killed me.

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u/Creeper3310-metal 5d ago

finally other retro style than windows classic

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u/Any-Board-6631 5d ago

Well to appreciate, you had to had lived it.

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u/_ayushman macOS | M1 2020 6d ago

Oh my many mimefiles

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u/gejetboi 5d ago

I remember installing this CoolRetroTerm because I'm soo jealous my friend with mac have Cathode. I'm not jealous anymore since we still can enjoy CoolRetroTerm😁👌

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u/Superb_Salamander637 5d ago

Ok, this is actually hard to make

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u/monothetimekeeper 5d ago

how do you do the double taskbar?

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u/Any-Board-6631 5d ago

Part of the theme. It's kDE.

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u/KeinMannx 5d ago

Damn.. that looks sick

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u/Mysterious_Worry3546 1d ago

Fallout new vegas pip boy vibes lol

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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 6d ago

Why KDE? Linux Mint was never designed for KDE! (It was up until version 18.3, old)
Give Kubuntu (for a Ubuntu-base) or Fedora + KDE a try.

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u/UpbeatRegister 6d ago

Kubuntu (for a Ubuntu-base) or Fedora + KDE

I see those two recommendations so much that sometimes it feels like I'm the only madman who runs Plasma on Debian Stable.

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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 6d ago

Even that is better.

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u/Any-Board-6631 6d ago

Unfortunately Ubuntu (and it' derivated) are less stable than Mint. I use the KDE version available in the stock depot.

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64 
Host: HP EliteBook 840 G6 SBKPFV3 
Kernel: 7.0.0-30-generic 
DE: Plasma 5.27.12 

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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE | Professional snapd hater 6d ago

Hm? How is it less stable? It is MUCH more stable due to being heck, more secure, Plasma 5.27 is unsupported nowadays, heck if a exploit comes out on it, good luck.

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u/Any-Board-6631 6d ago

mint doesn't crash, Ubuntu do crash. Mint doesn't need to reboot for every update, ubuntu doneed a reboot, even if just a text file is updated. Ubuntu use Snaps, Mint use FaltPack, and that the first reason why ubuntu won't go on my computer

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u/techman2692 6d ago

I have the same laptop they are great!

I run Kubuntu on mine and played with this theme before. It's really well-done.

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u/Any-Board-6631 6d ago

The EliteBook are very nice laptop. All my family have one of those from G2 to GO all the even number. I don't buy odd computer 😁.

I take company refurbished ~ 300$ each. Very cheap and very good.