I'm actually exploring various themes and icon packs on deviantArt. There are a LOT of great ones out there.
That is one feature of Linux I REALLY appreciate, tbh.
Yeah, customising the appearence is just much better than any OS I saw. There's people that might argue that aesthetic doesn't matter much compared to performance, but if you sit for hours straight on a monitor, making it look better does matter. Windows tbh has been disappointing me lately for the appearence, on Windows 7, I could have vivid green windows border, taskbar and start menu with or without opacity, on windows 10, I can only select a varaint of green I don't like with 100% opacity and only 100%........when I was saying that lattest isn't neccessarly better, well here it is.
In fact, I will even argue that OSX is much better than windows in terms of appearence customisability, I don't have a mac, but I did used one for hours on several days and I explored the OS enough to claim that. OSX being UNIX based, it isn't really surprising.
Linux Mint alloows to fully customise the Cinnamon CSS (idk where it is located again, but you can chnage a lot) so you can download CSS of others and it would completely chnage the look of cinnamon because that's what CSS is, a magic in terms of looks
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It also allows to change every system sfx with my only downside being there's not enough in which case, windows would be better in that. Btw, did you heard the media plugging and unplugging sfx? Try to plug an usb key, it's awesome!
Then it allows to have Nemo (the file manager) theme and a ton of windows customisation. I have 2 options i put that i always forget I have them on which is change opacity on mousewheel on the tittlebar and shade which is you click on an arrow and it will hide the window content and only show the tittle bar, I guess it coudl be usefull, but I jsut forget to use them
And did you checked the hotkeys settings? it's insane, I really never saw so much possibilities. You can have a command to run on an hotkey you decide, but because the terminal is giving every power, you can do everything.
btw, the menu is like this too, you can add menu items with a command of your choice, I use that for launching cheat engine using wine.
Oh and applets, I can't forget about them, you can add applets online, I added one that tells system status on graph and I use it to have only the RAM amount on a pie chart because I can know where my ram is swapping with this
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