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Ask HN: What are some high quality Linux theme resources?

• mister_hn 7y ago
  You should join definitively the SubReddit /r/unixporn, it is full of examples (and sources) of amazing customizations
• papaf 7y ago
  I think that the default Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu themes look good but I can also recommend Numix [1]. I use Numix themes and Icons with Arch Linux at work and it looks professional. [1] https://numixproject.github.io/products.html https://numixproject.github.io/products.html
• ktpsns 7y ago
  Cool. I also started with Gentoo, then used Win for half a decade but turned back to Linux by using Ubuntu, the Unity desktop environment. Eventually, I am a KDE guy, but GNOME3 is surprisingly hackable with CSS and JavaScript, IIRC. I don't like tiling window managers, but if you seek for minimalism and geekyness, you should try i3m and friends. In any way, I also had a powerful X1 for three years and it's a breeze. It is so fast that even big (don't want to say bloat...) software such as KDE starts quickly.
• newman8r 7y ago
  i3wm is worth trying out for at least a week to see if it's right for you. It only takes a day to get used to - it's a small time investment for the payoff and there's a lot of customization available.
  • dfischer 7y ago
    Looks amazing. Thanks!
  • FourSigma 7y ago
    Take a look at Regolith Linux. Has some sane configurationsfor i3 on top of Ubuntu. https://regolith-linux.org/ https://regolith-linux.org/
    • dfischer 7y ago
      Wow that does look good. Why use Ubuntu? Wouldn’t it add a lot of cruft instead of just i3?
      • jeromescuggs 7y ago
        in my experience, if cruft is a major concern in your day-to-day use of linux, you probably already have a desktop/window management environment and theme you've settled on :P i consider myself a sort of power-casual linux user, i don't develop professionally but love to tinker and play around with it, almost exclusively for aesthetic reasons. regolith being built on ubuntu means that the second i find myself out of my element, there's always the familiar and ever-present terminal i can pull up, that responds to all the commands i already know, has the binaries and services i am already familiar with, etc. that being said, i've taken some light dips into the wild, mainly using manjaro architect to play around with manjaro/i3 - regolith was a very awesome(lol) way to learn i3wm because i wasn't simultaneously having to also learn the ins-and-outs of a non-debian-based operating system
      • dustinmr 7y ago
        Another Mac refugee to Linux here. I first installed a minimal Debian install, and you begin running into lots of things along these lines: https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-in-i3wm/ https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-i... And you need to configure i3br/polybar, amongst lots of other things. I ended up on Regolith mostly to see how someone else who’s used i3 for a while sets things up. I’ve found I like it pretty well. It’s a nice middle ground. I may sometime go back to building my desktop from the bottom up, but Regolith has been a good way to get a working i3 setup to build from. It’s also a very fast way to have i3 setup and use for a week to see if you like it. If you do, then you can build what you like. But if you start from building first, your initial time investment will be much greater.
• ablekh 7y ago
  Be careful with changing X1E's BIOS settings (there have been reports of bricked machines) that you might want to configure graphics card(s) etc. for Linux. Hopefully, Gen2 is better in this sense (I have X1E Gen1, also with 64GB RAM :-), but "better safe than sorry". I would suggest you to review relevant Reddit forum (https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad), which has a lot of useful information (including some on Linux themes). Best of luck!
  • dfischer 7y ago
    Do anything to handle fan speeed and CPU throttle warning?
• gradschool 7y ago
  Manjaro Linux, based on Arch, can give you a nice looking uniform dark theme without making you spend hours tweaking configuration files, and with what seems to be a well curated selection of icons and packages including development tools. It even gives you the option of a Compiz desktop environment if that's your thing.