What are some high quality Linux theme resources?

Question

To make a long story short, I'm done with my MacBook Pro. The keyboard is terrible; and there isn't enough ram.I ordered a Lenovo X1 Extreme G2 with 64GB ram.I haven't ran Linux personally since Stage 1 Gentoo. I wasted so much time making that thing "cool."I'm actually excited to hack around back in that world again. Any resources that exist for the higher end of aesthetics? What's the latest on window managers these days? Best terminal?Thanks!

ablekh · Accepted Answer

Be careful with changing X1E's BIOS settings (there have been reports of bricked machines) that you might want to configure graphics card(s) etc. for Linux. Hopefully, Gen2 is better in this sense (I have X1E Gen1, also with 64GB RAM :-), but "better safe than sorry". I would suggest you to review relevant Reddit forum (https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad), which has a lot of useful information (including some on Linux themes). Best of luck!

mister_hn · Answer

You should join definitively the SubReddit /r/unixporn, it is full of examples (and sources) of amazing customizations

gradschool · Answer

Manjaro Linux, based on Arch, can give you a nice looking uniform dark theme without making you spend hours tweaking configuration files, and with what seems to be a well curated selection of icons and packages including development tools. It even gives you the option of a Compiz desktop environment if that's your thing.

papaf · Answer

I think that the default Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu themes look good but I can also recommend Numix [1]. I use Numix themes and Icons with Arch Linux at work and it looks professional.[1] https://numixproject.github.io/products.html

newman8r · Answer

i3wm is worth trying out for at least a week to see if it's right for you. It only takes a day to get used to - it's a small time investment for the payoff and there's a lot of customization available.

ktpsns · Answer

Cool. I also started with Gentoo, then used Win for half a decade but turned back to Linux by using Ubuntu, the Unity desktop environment. Eventually, I am a KDE guy, but GNOME3 is surprisingly hackable with CSS and JavaScript, IIRC. I don't like tiling window managers, but if you seek for minimalism and geekyness, you should try i3m and friends.In any way, I also had a powerful X1 for three years and it's a breeze. It is so fast that even big (don't want to say bloat...) software such as KDE starts quickly.