Nothing crazy here, but as much as I was digging Plasma and the Windows-like initial state it comes in, I mac-ified my setup.
Quick PSA: if you encounter a similar issue as above, after a borked update, just create a new user and copy the .config folder into your main user’s home.
After a bit of fiddling around, I got it the way it was before, and I even activated klassy again 
I really have to clean up my drives now 
Hi All
So this is a screen shot on my HP Z440 workstation connected to a Dell OptiPlex XE3 with Cockpit flatpak client and creating a Windows 11 Pro Virtual Machine on the Dell OptiPlex XE3 system…
And another, fresh install of Aeon to test the latest installer (Aeon-Installer.x86_64-0.1.0-Snapshot20250522.raw.xz)…
Huge thanks to OpenSUSE for making me switch from Windows full time about a year back now. What a joy to be “computing” again. Stable, responsive, software support is fantastic, and fun to tinker and personalize.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed running KDE with the Candy Icon Pack. No add-ons, clock font is Digital-7 Mono with custom date format (dddd |MM-dd-yyyy):
I’ve been using Linux since 1999 or 2000 (Mandrake, Mandriva and Mageia). I used Linux 99% of the time since about 2003 or 2004, when I got done playing with XP. I tried Fedora and Tumbleweed in about 2018 to see what was out there, but stayed on Mageia until 2023 when I installed TW. I’ve run Windows 3, 95, 95 OSR2, NT, 98, 98 SE, 2000, XP and 7. DOS and an Amiga before that.
This is Plasma 6.
I really like colorful 3D icons. I don’t like Symbolic Icons nor Hamburger Menus. Your eyes get trained to the icon color even more than it does to the shape. With a lot of Symbolic Icons you have to slow down and look closer. Icon hunting or playing menu maze games is not my idea of time well spent (see my Dolphin Toolbar).
These icons are a mix of Oxygen and the Crystal Project by Everaldo Coelho, with a few custom icons. I named them Oxygen-Crystal when I started working on them. I may change it to Chrystal-Oxygen. I have a lot of hours in them and integrating them into the system is maybe half done.
I made the blue fan icon for CoolerControl. I really don’t like their new white or blue, symbolic flat wrench icons. Now no matter what their icon is, mine over-rides it. The Brightness Control in the tray is my next icon project and I believe I’ll replace that Bell Notifications icon (maybe just change the color).
The rest is a standard Windows type layout (the one thing Windows got right) but there’s a lot of customization. My right click context menu in Dolphin has multiple ways to search for or compare files, find duplicates, batch rename files, and read EXIF data from images. It even has an option to make another service menu, or remove one.
I can do a lot of things without ever using the Application Menu. Recent Applications and Recent Files are probably my most used menus. The pop-out panel on the left is system info, graphics and video editors, and Kvantum.
Looks great! So you finally figured out how good Linux really is. I tell my friends about Linux and add, someday when you switch you’ll ask me why I didn’t tell you how nice it is. I did, 50 times! 
Ok, 500 times. 
You’ve probably heard about Slowroll but if not, all you have to do is change your repos to Slowroll and you’ll be running SR. It rolls slower, behind TW and should be more stable. TW is great though.
After a year you’re probably pretty comfortable. Back in the day, I reinstalled Mandrake a few times because I played with everything and learned how to break it real fast (therefore how not to break it).
Today you can install TW in a virtual machine and make a copy of that folder before you break it. Then you can explore and if you destroy it, just replace the broken one with the copy of the virtual machine folder.
I built a Windows gaming machine for a friend and put TW on it for the software. You’ll love having it right there, without hunting, and it’s good software. You know, GIMP, Kdenlive, K3B, Office etc. Yes, I still have Blu-ray burners.
Anyway, the forum said that was your first post and to welcome you, so welcome to Linux and Tumbleweed… And KDE. It’s been my favorite since day one (KDE 2). It’s extremely customizable.
Now I’m limited to icons, theme and background Tumbleweed Gnome is my companion.
Mind sharing where you found this wallpaper?
