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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

You were able to take a nice unixporn worthy screenshot. That is all you need to learn.

Jokes aside I wish you a very good luck

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the learning's going well, Mint is such a good distro for all users and will teach you a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I foolishly shopped around a whole host of distros and DEs after seeing things on reddit and getting ideas above my station.

Most couldn’t even boot either the live USB or following install, and I didn’t really know how to find out why.

Others worked for a week or more before failing after an update and I hadn’t figured out Timeshift yet.

Probably my 2012 hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics played a part if I was guessing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Probably my 2012 hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics played a part if I was guessing

Having lived this, I would be inclined to agree

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We were all pretty useless to start with, good luck with your learning!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

I’ve nuked and started again with Linux so many times at this point.

Did the usual ill-advised distro hopping instead of just using Mint, to see if the grass was greener… and it wasn’t.

So many distros couldn’t even load the live USB and locked up with a black screen.

Others would install… but then wouldn’t boot.

Others ran for various amounts of time before failing after an update.

At least now I’ve done what I should have done at the start and figured out Timeshift. If anything goes wrong again I’ll make sure I take the time to see if I can understand why, to learn from it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wow people still use conky! Last time I tried using it, Linux was in kernel 2.6.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It's good shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't get it. The only time I see the desktop is just after login.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A lot of it seems at least partly deprecated, had to just delete a few presets I couldn’t get to show any data

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm useless no matter what OS I use ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I'm so useless I can't even be used as a bad example

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Try it out and see if it fits you.

There's plenty of resources and helpful people out there to help you, and a lot of new shiny tech and toys to enjoy.

Have fun and help others if you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If love to copy your conky setup. That looks slick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it’s nice!

I can’t take any credit for it, I found it here and figured out how to modify it slightly, mainly to remove the bits I couldn’t get to work.

https://github.com/andeon/conky-simple

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Hey, it looks clean and functional. Just keep taking it one step at a time, and learn as much as you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Looks like you got it pretty well under control to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You‘re doing well, young Linux fellow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Looks good! Conky reminds me of [the long-defunct] rainmeter software, pretty good nostalgia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Where does this System Information edit: on the right side as desktop overlay come from?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

type neofetch into your terminal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I meant the right side. Sorry, I should have clarified.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah it’s plain old Conky.

Trying to be incredibly non-invasive and able to backtrack on anything I do. So nothing extra installed and no Conky Manager, all just using someone else’s conky.conf settings I found online, which I then tweaked (and removed some bits I couldn’t get working!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My guess is conky. I use it too but mine doesn't look anywhere near as nice as OP's does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can’t take any credit, but found this after doing some searching

https://github.com/andeon/conky-simple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Much appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Linux mint is good 💚