1080p GNOME HTPC w/emulators and kodi. Boring but functional default dark Adwaita theme and dash-to-dock + caffeine extensions. A11y "Large Text" on w/scale set to 1.66x via GNOME Tweaks + hack fonts that feel comfortable to read for me.

GPU is an old HD7970 GHz Ed. that I use to offload OpenGL and Vulkan for more intensive emulator sessions. The desktop itself uses the onboard GPU and the dGPU has a ZeroPower feature where it uses almost no power when not being used as an accelerator.

The Haswell generation core CPUs were the first to support AVX2, which is useful in the context of emulators.

With this set up, bottom left is "start menu", top left is "overview/exposé", top right is "window controls" and bottom right is "session controls". Fitt's Law FTW.

8 days later

New Laptop Budgie
I can live with it for a dark theme
Simple functional.

    h3o I would love if you would be able to share how you did this theme, I actually really like it as well!

      Axios New Laptop Budgie
      I can live with it for a dark theme
      Simple functional.

      congrats! you went back to budgie. Nemo is better than Nautilus in its own way. hope you like it better than Caja. Since new management at beginning of year Budgie has been rock solid.

          brent I just imaged win10 and installed budgie on this little lenovo yoga
          Its a barn burner crazy.
          I got a bunch of new toys...lol
          Was ready to trash nemo until I figure out how get the menu on it. (Happy now)

            leonevo Corners so round you'll make the GNOME people cry!

              This is Solus 4.5 Gnome with Qogir Icons and Layan-Light Theme. And of course some extensions installed 🙂

                7 days later


                Solus is, no joking, first distro with Plasma that isn't an unstable crap on my hardware
                (and yes, I'm a sucker for default arrangements)

                pomon
                xfce!
                and analog desktop clock!
                must have analog clock! point me to script🙂
                thank you!

                edit: you have a raven trigger so not xfce. I thought the panel analog clock (not the desktop analog clock) was a xfce thing..

                    brent Budgie, and the clock is compiled tzclock. It should work independently of the desktop environment.

                        paolo84 What are your installed extensions? How did you do that panel at the bottom?

                          pomon I got the clock and the library deps, thank you.