2024/07/08
Posted Tag: #Linux
Other Tags: #Windows, #Personal, #All
I first wrote about my bash script Strings last October and with it I use the Cinnamon desktop with Linux Mint themes and icons along with a lot of their applications. Arch Linux is the underlying distribution and I have all this together because I like the Linux Mint themes, icons and such along with Arch Linux.
What I am really going to talk about here is Windows. Well other desktops for Linux too.
Windows is continually getting worse. I have said before that installing Windows 11 requires a Microsoft Account, which is just so they can track you. Well unless you use Rufus. And they have talked about Recall. And the updates with the "Do not turn your computer off!" and having to wait for updates to finish when booting. I do not know about you but when I want to shutdown my computer and go to bed that is what I want to do. As well as when I start it. Yes that annoys me. Enough about Windows. I fell out of love with it years ago.
I went through the trouble of modifying Strings to install KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop just to see what it was about. Of course in a virtual machine. I watched a YouTube video of a guy that said the two best Linux desktops for beginners are Linux Mint and KDE Plasma. I have to disagree with that. Maybe I am a little biased toward the Cinnamon desktop but to me it just looks better aesthetically. But you need the Linux Mint icons for 'y' and here for 'x', which are provided on GitHub, to accomplish what I am talking about. The themes are provided in the Arch Linux AUR as mint-themes-git. I actually installed some other distributions in virtual machines that you can get with the Cinnamon desktop. But the themes and icons with the Cinnamon they use is without the current Linus Mint themes and icons.
So yes I think Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop is best for Windows users wanting to try Linux. I just use the Cinnamon desktop with the Linux Mint themes and icons on Arch Linux. Yes I use Ubuntu Server LTS on my servers due to the fact that I can use ZFS. That is the only reason I use Ubuntu Server LTS. I do not like Ubuntu due to Snap, which I disable for Ubuntu Server LTS long with it being installed again in an update. Why do we need Snap with a server anyway? I seriously do not get it. Sure I could use FreeBSD for ZFS but I like the Ubuntu package manager since I used Linux Mint when I first started with Linux. Yes Linux Mint has a Debian version now but I like Arch Linux for the cutting edge new versions of Linux. Build a new computer sometime and if your hardware is reasonable new you may want Arch Linux.
Now Arch Linux on ZFS root not a chance. Been there and tried that. Just keep good backups using rsync along with my script Strings. I can be back up with everything working as before in ten minutes. Maybe a cloned backup with Windows can beat that but then again it is Windows.
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