maple classic™ 
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 i can help you if you have specific questions but not _right_ now
@squirrel feel free to like
send me a backlog of questions
@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
@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
@squirrel I'm happy to help, not right now as octopus needs sleep, but setting things up is like my favourite thing to do
i don't want to turn help away
it's just that a lot of suggestions aren't of any actual help