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@kiilas @dzuk@a.weirder.earth it looks like it has a visor

cybercat !!

@sydneyfalk let me know when you find out

im sorry im so exhausted and exhausting when i gripe about things

@er1n not your fault

otherwise yes maxx desktop looks very pretty and very much something i want

@er1n and the person who made it disappeared several times and then came back with new versions and every time he disappears the download links go offline and it's basically vaporware

@er1n yes that's maxx desktop like i said

it's

unfinished and buggy and doesn't work right on ubuntu

i tried

this will never exist because it is impossible to create otherwise someone would already have created it because it is clearly the optimal desktop experience and it cannot be achieved

my dream linux desktop: pixel perfect mac os 9 recreation (no, no gnome themes look anything like os 9 no matter how much they call themselves platinum, they all look off) with modernized hotkeys and a quicksearch function like xfce's start menu has

@troubleMoney the problem is i dont have the patience and knowhow and ability to customize it myself from scratch

you give me too many options and i just panic and cry not having any direction

i want to just pay someone to custom build me a linux desktop environment

remember 90s linux distros that had window titles that didn't span the whole window width just the title width? i liked that

@troubleMoney the closest i got was fvwm on ubuntu but it crashed so often that i got too frustrated about randomly losing all of my work because it had no fallbacks it just brought the whole fucking thing instantly down and kicked you back to the login manager and whoops all your work is gone if you didn't save it

@troubleMoney looks too modern to me

i honestly just want it to look like irix but usable in a modern context

@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

@er1n im going to bed soon so maybe another day sorry

i dont know what questions i have

"how do i make things purple" i guess

i don't want to turn help away

it's just that a lot of suggestions aren't of any actual help

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

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

@troubleMoney i could never do tiling wms ever

i just want nice window trimmings but that's too much to ask from linux

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

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