Linux Desktop Screenshot Thread

[Ghost02]

I've seen a lot of people trying to copy the look but the look does not make it behave like OS X hence me not seeing the point. You're not alone on Unity, I can't stand it but there are many other options like Gnome 3, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, LXDE, e17 etc etc etc. Find out which ones suite your usage style and then theme it for the look you like, it's only a look after all. You are spoilt for choice. My personal favourites are XFCE & Openbox. I'm currently only running openbox on both my machines but it's definitely not for everybody.

Thanks, I'm a CS student at the moment so want to force myself to start using linux for development, do you think running it in a VM on windows 8 would be ok? Will only be using it for developement... games and multimedia will remain with windows for now.

Incase specs affect the answer: First gen i7 920, 12GB Ram, don't think the rest would affect it to much.

 

[Sysem]

Ubuntu 13.04. Just added Docky and Conky:

That Conky script is awesome! Mind sharing?

 

[Sysem]

Thanks, I'm a CS student at the moment so want to force myself to start using linux for development, do you think running it in a VM on windows 8 would be ok? Will only be using it for developement... games and multimedia will remain with windows for now.

Incase specs affect the answer: First gen i7 920, 12GB Ram, don't think the rest would affect it to much.

For starting out, it should be fine. You might end up like me though - I eventually got rid of Windows altogether. Well, I still have the partition (30GB ), but I primarily use Ubuntu now.

 

[ponder]

Thanks, I'm a CS student at the moment so want to force myself to start using linux for development, do you think running it in a VM on windows 8 would be ok? Will only be using it for developement... games and multimedia will remain with windows for now.

Incase specs affect the answer: First gen i7 920, 12GB Ram, don't think the rest would affect it to much.

Will be fine, try it in a VM. I suspect eventually you will keep a win partition for gaming and do everything else in linux.

 

[vinodh]

That Conky script is awesome! Mind sharing?

http://www.noobslab.com/2012/07/conky-collection-for-ubuntulinux.html

Just hover over the links to get a preview.

 

[Ghost02]

Where do you guys get your themes from? Trying to find something slightly transparent with no luck, installed mint 15 as my first change from windows and I just want to make it look better than windows.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Where do you guys get your themes from? Trying to find something slightly transparent with no luck, installed mint 15 as my first change from windows and I just want to make it look better than windows.

Just goto http://gnome-look.org/content/search.php and type Conky into the description contains field.

 

[Ghost02]

Just goto http://gnome-look.org/content/search.php and type Conky into the description contains field.

Thanks, I'm looking for the desktop environment themes though, currently using cinnamon but can't find anything that blows me away. Looked on that site before too. Should I perhaps look at using a different desktop environment?