Most of the “looks” come from the compositor (picom) and the bar.

When I had reddit (deleted a few years ago), I posted a screenshot of my android launcher, and someone pointed out that I was using google apps, and said “protect your privacy”, he gave me some resources and that’s where it all clicked for me. What a nice guy.

Linux mint is in my opinion the best distro for a new user, but you may personally not be fond of the UI.

I don’t know how to write a guide for you, but if you have more specific questions feel free to ask them, best of luck!

wouldn’t yearly be too frequent?

Sad to see it finish so soon :(

That’s my favorite amongus so far

I also have a 240hz but it works fine? I’ve never heard of this, although I still hate the nvidia drivers for many things

Home Manager on a NixOS flake, it’s a rabbit hole but I’ve been loving it since last week!

Ah I see, this is an old screenshot. Understandable have a great day

I love that Linux allows us to do this, but why

my eyes

Thank you so much for your example, I’m new to NixOS coming from arch and these are all very helpful.

Dang you managed to improve it, this looks awesome, I guess I am going to git pull

Post it again if you change it! Would love to see it

What bar is that?

I am stealing your waybar config :P

Yes, updates work the same, I believe there might be a way to enable automatic updates too. And for flatpak I don’t know what you mean with “manually update”, usually you can just run “flatpak update” on the terminal and be fine, I don’t know Mint enough to know if the software center updates them automatically too, look in the settings of it (if there are any). Hope this was helpful.

It is based on ubuntu, so everything works out of the box, and no complex setup, mint is no archlinux or gentoo

Damn, we need to fix the sorting of posts, this is 2 years old (and unmaintained)

Probably around 800mb, but It has been long since I’ve used any desktop environment. Nowadays I prefer tiling window managers, they are much more lightweight and fast.