i wish i had the patience and knowledge of linux wms to configure a wm i like but linux is absolutely cryptic

mate is ok but it's hard to find the programs i want other than memorizing terminal lines

fvwm was nice but crashed too much

xfce has good usability but looks awful

plus gnome themes just suck a lot and for some reason absolutely none of them use the gnome color customization on mate

like any theme i throw at it shows the theme's colors but actually changing them is grayed out like what's the point

anyway this is me griping about a thing in my usual frustrated fashion of "if i can't do it it must mean it's impossible and anyone telling me otherwise is lying" because i have bad mental health hi how's your day

if you have any desire at all to actually hands-on help me make my linux desktop experience more enjoyable please let me know

people who will just link me to a thing and not personally help me set it up need not apply

@squirrel like, what are your specific goals? just changing the colors on this theme? because, like, once i know what theme it is i can try mirroring your setup locally and helping you out

@er1n i honestly dont know im sorry

i don't know what i want

i'll know when i see it but i can't picture it in my head

there's just a lot of tiny things about my setup i don't like

i probably need to format my hard drive and lose everything to replace xubuntu with actual ubuntu mate for mate to work properly anyway

and i don't think i even want mate

like my ideal system would be irix i guess but fvwm fatally crashes too much and maxx desktop is dead

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