My aims were to maximise available vertical space on a small widescreen laptop, push information to the top of the screen for ergonomics, and still allow easy management of multiple windows and desktops (ie. no auto-hide).

Solus/Budgie makes it so simple to create a custom desktop to-spec. I've never come across another distro/DE that combines the flexibility, ease-of-use and pleasing aesthetics. Hope I never have to leave!

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lf-araujo Looking at the fetch, seems to be vimix-dark-compact-doder and vimix-doder-dark

    10 days later

    new look

    New look. Scan of a picture taken by a film camera, then generated the color scheme with pywal. Budgie is great, despite what recent headlines might lead you to believe 🙂. Just replaced Nautilus with Caja.

    DE: Budgie 10.6.4
    Theme: Plata-Noir
    Icons: Papirus
    I've been using solus for 2 years and I don't miss Windows like I thought I would, 😄

      alec685 I see this as the intended Solus Classic (circa 2018) look: crisp, elegant, simple, dark. Nice.

      alec685 I've been using solus for 2 years and I don't miss Windows like I thought I would,

      when I took my leap of faith and cut the cord I kept it around but I didn't miss it.

          7 days later
          6 days later

          *solus mate. clock is Peter Levi's clock. He makes Variety wallpaper app.
          *I have to rewrite parts of .conf code to get day 12hr time, seconds, year. I have to teach myself clock.
          *Mate desktop panel is, let's say, unworkable---I ripped panel out of Mate (hid).
          *Super key for app menu and turned the rest over to Plank.
          *Plank Rocks.
          *This is my workspace. It's where I need it to be.
          *Inxi>Neofetch🙂

          unclemez "super okay" sounds a bit sarcastic almost ^^
          (P.S. I've taken the liberty of changing the image link in your post to a ![](image-link) format so it looks nicer)

            @1371#58298 really wish I could get the red Papirus icons like this again. I have no idea where I got it

              Staudey YES that was it, I recall using one of the papirus-folders scripts to get it working on Solus, thanks a million
              I also notice I was using a red variant of plata in that photo, completely forgot about that.
              If Budgie had some sort of accent color option, these colored folders would be a perfect fit IMO
              (pic for reference so you don't have to scroll up to the post)

                just sharing about my other setup powered by Solus 4.3 with Gnome

                Solus 4.3 gnome + Linux 6.0.11-225.current
                Tilix replacing gnome terminal + dracula color theme
                Brave Browser mainline [testing it]
                vivaldibrowser Snapshot is my main browser
                4GiB RAM DDR3 1333MHz + Zram 100% enabled [setup at RAM /2]
                Bitwarden Latest installed.