If the goal is to have the most up to date bleeding edge software, but have it on a critical machine, consider immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue or OpenSuse Aeon. Especially the latter will be just days behind Arch, and if an update breaks something you just roll back and try updating again in a week.
I used Silverblue as my main work system and this saved me a few times.
Yeahh immutable system is the way, I spent so much energy reinstalling systems that felt dirty and slow or just distro hopping. Then I tried NixOS believe me I’m not going anywhere else
can you rollback on boot like with NixOS? This is one feature I found really cool, but NixOS itself completely turns me off. They have several bootloader entries where you could just boot into a previous system configuration, which is not a filesystem snapshot like with grub-btrfs+pacman-boot-backup-hook or similar.
Why would you want to rely 100% on the taste of other people?
If you like GNOME, you may try Fedora Silverblue which has vanilla GNOME and little apps, all others are installed as Flatpaks.
But relying on preinstalled snaps for whatever reason doesnt make much sense. Default Desktop settings are a different thing, and I am happy you found the solution.
You’ll want to decide on a desktop environment or window manager (or compositor). That’ll be the biggest determining factor of what things will look like. From there, you’ll want to either read the manual or arch wiki on how to customize the different aspects of it.
If you decide you want a tiling window manager, Hyprland is nice since you mentioned you wanted animations. But it’s only recommended on rolling release distros at the moment. It also might not work well with Nvidia.
What kind of “app behaviour” customizations are you wanting to do? That sounds like it would be app-specific. My main form of app customization is to find ways to change the colour scheme (to fit everything else), and also to change the keybindings (I like using vim-like key bindings whenever reasonable)
This Lemmy community is a pretty good resource for inspiration, and sometimes you can snag animation or icon sources from the descriptions or comments. It’s not super in depth on the how to end of it though.
A snap could actually be possible. I am happy they dont focus on that, but Ubuntu can even run cups as a snap, their Ubuntu Core is pretty cool. It sucks that their store is proprietary, but you could write your own installer, fetching .snap packages from any repo and installing them locally
because it isn’t modding it’s just aesthetic changes. that is why it is called “ricing”, because on the car community just changing the looks is considered trash tuning.
Is the concern the connection to “rice racers” japenese import cars? or the term when you rice potatoes or cauliflower through a ricing device, making it into tiny parts?
To clarify for those who come after: It’s quite blatantly the first one. You’re tricking your desktop out as is stereotypical of the cars you mentioned.
It’s possible that the majority of people weren’t aware of the first one when they started using it, but they don’t have an excuse if they continue to use it now.
Lived through the 90s when the import car scene was huge. The term ricing back then was used when referring to asians who modified their cars, as a pejorative.
It really bummed me out to see it creep into the Linux community. Tried voicing displeasure back when I used Reddit and got blasted with downvotes and really distasteful comments, felt like I was alone in this feeling. Thanks, from some random Asian Linux user.
It’s actually an acronym for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. The fact that some don’t know and use it to be racist says more about them as an individual than the term itself.
Not knowing what the acronym means and using it for stock Honda Accords, because “asian car” for instance. That is racist.
Tbh I don’t really even get the hate on Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement, I see it as a different facet of “car enthusiast,” like the dudes with Donks and Low-Riders. Still though it isn’t racism, just eleitism or regular old gatekeeping from the racing people.
On the matter of Ubuntu I think the issues with the OS need to be clarified. From the positive perspective, it is easy to use and just works. From the negative side, it’s become more and more bespoke over time. The Snaps being proprietary and a lot of work in the terminal to activate functions enjoyed out-of-the-box by almost all other distros is very unfriendly. And, I would suggest there are numerous other distros that “just work” but without Ubuntu’s baggage. Mint, Pop_OS!, and Fedora are all easy to install, setup, and use. Even KDE’s Neon is dirt simple to install and use and offers a great KDE experience, if you like that.
That said, however, I believe that Mint is the best distro for new users, though Fedora and Pop are close behind.
Thank you, I am glad you like it. I have been trying to improve it, adding functionalities, improving the selection mechanism with cursor and scrolling etc.
afaik linux and windows shows different GPU memory clock speeds but it’s basically the same (1:2 conversion)
most likely because bigger number = better?
I think i found the answer. Windows counts the total speed including the effective bandwidth, while most Linux utilities only report the raw clock speed.
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