I am looking for a distro with a customisable UI. I want the ability to change everything in the UI: like changing the window borders style, animated interface, creating transition animations. Something that can allow me to create UI from my favourite video games. I am even willing to learn a language if needed. Just don’t suggest arch because I’m only interested in visuals. I don’t want to spend time creating and troubleshooting other aspects of os. Also, if above requirements can be achieved with changing the desktop environment, please suggest that too. I am somewhat familiar with Linux as I used it a few years ago for some time. Back then, the games’ support was lacking, so I switched back. But now with steam os and proton’s contribution, games shouldn’t be a hassle to run.

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    I highly recommend Hyprland if you want a truly infinitely customizable UI. But, there’s a big learning curve to even using it, let alone installing it and setting it up.

    You could use endeavourOS as your operating system, which is Arch based yet easy to install. I can’t speak to setting up Hyprland on other distros as I haven’t done it, but I’m sure if you look around you’ll find out what you need to know.

    • dovahking@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks. I’ll look into hyprland. Is endeavour stable enough to use, as I only have a laptop as my main machine. So I want something that don’t need fixing every now and then.

      • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Install your software from official repositories and flatpak and you shouldnt have any issues. My latest install has been going strong for about 6 months without issue. Linux in general is quite stable unless you’re mucking about with things you don’t understand, and if you do like to live dangerously in that regard, it’s a great way to learn a lot.

        If you’re worried about stability, keep good backups. Back up your important personal files, as well as your config files so you can reapply any customizations you had in place.

        If anything happens that’s too tedious to troubleshoot, reinstall, it takes like 20 minutes tops and gets you back to square one.

        You could also use time shift to create system snapshots.

          • Hule@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 days ago

            I also use EndeavourOS. Look into btrfs snapshots, it’s easy to set up and use. It rolls back your filesystem to an earlier state.

            It has saved me 3 times thus far.