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. ;)

  • UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • thatonecoder@lemmy.ca
      1·
      20 hours ago

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

      • UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        20 hours 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.