That was easier than I thought it would be... I've never 'themed' my Zorin OS before, but it was super easy using the themes from the B00merang-Project. I used the Windows XP Royale Dark theme.
Download the theme you want to use to your desktop and extract the .zip file.
Open sudo nautilus.
Drag the theme you want to /usr/share/themes. For my setup, I dragged the Windows XP Royale Dark and the Windows XP Luna folders over, so I could try out both.
Right-click the folder and select Properties . Go to the Permissions tab.
Set the permissions as:
Owner: root
Access: Create and delete files
Group: root
Access: Access files
Others: {blank}
Access: Access files
Click the Change Permissions for Enclosed Files... button and set the permissions to the same as above.
Reboot.
Open gnome-tweaks and go to the Appearance tab. For Applications , select the new theme. For Shell , select the new theme.
I do, but the day I go back to using gnome as the DE, I'm considering not to, since it just looks much cleaner to keep the desktop empty (or maybe with just widgets) and open the apps menu from the taskbar when I actually need to open something instead of having a few icons always thrown around in the desktop
Same. I used to use the Desktop as my launchpad for all icons. And many things like pictures or downloads always ended up a desktop icon.
When I switched to using Zorin OS, that almost seemed to abruptly change. Which seems very odd to me. You would think I would be a normal little human and retain my bad habits.
This implies that we feel compelled to keep icons on the desktop on Windows- but would rather not do so. And once freed from whatever it is about Windows that makes us use the Desktop that way, we revert to a more natural state.
I use the Desktop as 1) a quick-access area, 2) a data billboard and 3) a scratchpad, of sorts.
The icons for my drives are on the Desktop; 2) Conky is on the desktop; 3) everything I download goes to the Desktop; and I do edits on huge text files as I shuffle the data contained within them, and the temporary files (essentially the result of each step of the data shuffling) are saved there. Not much remains for very long on the Desktop.
Not since I started using Gnome (without extensions). But I do miss having that ability as I like using it for temporary files i.e.: ideas, quick notes, playground folders, etc.
Luckily I've been getting more and more comfortable with the terminal and that helps a lot. Although to be fair, what is supposed to be "quick" or "temporary", sometimes ends up taking up months...
It was from this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npn8ZktlKEs
Yesterday was late over midnight that why today finished.
I am very like linux. You can doing with him everything and you are the boss.
It's not exactly a "new" laptop, but my brother's previous laptop, which is almost the same as mine, except it has slightly better specs and a faulty screen
he didn't use it much because of the faulty screen and how slow it was (which apparently was caused by windows bloatware that the manufacturer added to it in a way that it installs itself after you try to uninstall it), so it doesn't have the problems with the battery and the aging hard drive that mine has
