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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Windows 10 theme for XFCE4 or Mate (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by pirati_kudos@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi guys.

My mom has pretty old and shitty home HP notebook and I was thinking that since she mainly uses it for browsing Facebook and watching Youtube that I would upgrade it for her to Linux instead of Win 11. The only thing is that I want some lightweight desktop like XFCE or maybe Mate and to make it as painless as possible for her I would like to install Windows 10 looking theme on that machine.

Do you guys know of any good themes that are updated at least on semi-regular?

Thanks. ;)

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Intel Celeron N3060, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and I live boot from a PNY USB pen

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So I checked the specs, I misremembered. The CPU in the systems I'm using is a Pentium G630 @2.7 GHz with 4gb of ddr3. Benchmarks put that at about double the Celeron N3060 in performance. I'm also booting from an internal SATA SSD.

I think the most limiting factor for you is the live boot, it is pretty much always slower to boot from a live image than from an install.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

yeah any boot from USB will be slow

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but it does show a bottleneck from KDE's side, there. It means you'll need fast storage.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Fast storage is relative. It works flawlessly on a budget SATA SSD from like 10 years ago. It would probably have a 1-2 minute load time on a SATA spinning disk, but I have not used a system with a spinning disk boot drive in years.