Distro-hopping on the ASUS zenbook

Linux Desktop Environments For users who aren't familiar with "Linux Operating Systems", you can customise the desktop experience however you like meaning that you aren't stuck with the look that came installed. There are many Desktop Environments (known as DE) that are commonly used in many distributions available today, and here are my top picks. GNOME 3  GNOME 3 is a highly configurable desktop environment that is clean and elegant to use. Its strengths is having wide support for themes, extensions, touch-friendly and lastly for having mixed-DPI support. However, it is known to be quite heavy on resources and overly-simplistic. Choose this desktop environment for a stable and clean desktop experience that will work for most workflows. KDE Plasma  Where KDE Plasma shines is in the applications that are a part of KDE applications. While most would argue that it is more suited for power users, the interface has improved dramatically over recent updates. Lik...

Fedora 27 on the ASUS Zenbook UX305CA For people who don't know about Fedora Fedora is a independent distribution that uses its own repositories and package management and is maintained by Red Hat. It is one of the most used Linux distributions available and uses the GNOME desktop environment by default. It also is well known for having a short release cycle and for having bleeding edge software while also having QA before it is released. For people who have used Fedora and are on an older build Fedora 27 introduces GNOME 3.26 which has a redesigned settings menu, improved display switching, and many other improvements over previous iterations. Firefox has been updated to the 57 build codenamed, Quantum, and many other software package updates. I would say it is a stable release, but people on servers may want to wait out so that all bugs have been ironed out. After being on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for less than a week, I had noticed a few quirks from day-to-day usage. One o...

Saber's GNOME theme setup I've been distro-hopping for some time for some time now and in that time, I have been using distributions that have the GNOME de built-in. GNOME is famous for its extensibility, having gnome extensions, easy theming support and a design that been crafted to be wonderfully simplistic.  Now I assume that if you found this guide, you may already know all about this nonsense on GNOME, so lets get right into my setup.  GTK theme Now this isn't an easy pick since there are many excellent themes out there. However a majority of the time, I have been using one theme that I have found the be excellently designed as well as aesthetically pleasing, and that theme is Flat-plat-blue . This is a fork of the Flat-plat theme (now known as materia) which boasts material design concepts commonly found in Android smartphones today.  Its main difference is that it has been modified to have blue colors which may or may not suit your tastes, but sh...

Hi there, this is my first blog post and I would like to start with my experience with Manjaro Linux.  I've always had the thought of installing Arch on my Asus UX305CA ultrabook someday but never had the courage to dive deep into the Linux world. I've have experience with many other distros including Fedora, Ubuntu (17.10, KDE Neon), but I felt bored after using them for a while. Don't get me wrong, these are great distros, Fedora for its up-to-date software and not to mention the polish on GNOME DE, meanwhile Ubuntu for its easy to use apt commands and peace of mind.  Enough of the chit-chat, lets get right into the installation.  Before jumping ahead, I'm using the KDE variant of Manjaro and downloaded the latest version from the Manjaro website. If you do decide to follow this guide, you will lose all of your data! Also, I've install Manjaro before on my lappy but that was a while ago. Firstly, I loaded Manjaro onto a 4GB USB stick using RUFUS on ...