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Gemneroth — New Laptop Setup
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Published: 2013-09-06 14:28:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 10297; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 73
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I bought an ASUS X501A notebook and I was pleasantly surprised when a slimmer, lighter, faster ASUS X502C arrived yesterday.I took Windows 8 for a spin but honestly found it vile. I booted ElementaryOS Luna onto a pendrive and installed it ran updates and grabbed various apps I'll need for uni next year.
This is my setup;
Wall: gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/S…
elementaryOS 0.2 Luna
Wingpanel Slim
Synapse Indicator
UbuntuOne Indicator
Custom UbuntuOne Indicator icon gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/M…
Modded Blue icon theme sta.sh/0wcbu5jh7k7
Milk interface theme
Elementary Dark window decoration theme
EDIT: How to tweak wingpanel: gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/C…
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love your work! (and setup)
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Where can I get the Modded Blue icon theme? Can't seem to find it.
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I would like to install Linux but there is one big problem... Photoshop. I need this program everyday.
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Most people scoff at this but I have been able to replace Photoshop CS5 completely with GIMP2.8. I have it set up with a single window mode and a dark theme and now it is my editing/painting programme of choice. There are more than capable alternatives to the windows solutions now. Also, you can always dual boot. My laptop is only running linux but my PC is running Linux and Windows 8.1. Windows has just become a games console for me. sta.sh/01by7goo1khd Normally I have it on a 24" screen instead of an 11" but I already have a screenshot from my laptop
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Sorry dude but Gimp is not good alternative for PS. Dual boot is quite good option (ex. Arch linux + Win 7) but I have way to small HDD 
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Hey, Photoshop can run under wine,, you can search on Google how do that.
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I know but most things runs crapy under Wine. But thanks 
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That's one slick desktop man. I've heard good things about elementary, should try it some time. Also I wonder how well Gnome3 is doing these days.... last time I checked it was a mess. What do you think?
btw, did the Win8 come preinstalled? Cause you'd have done better with a laptop without win8 preinstalled since you were going to use linux anyways, as you also had to pay for the win8 license for OEMs (unless the price difference between this model and the one you wanted was enough to compensate).
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You really should! I've been using it as my only OS for coming up to a year now if you include the betas... If I had to go to anything else I would definitely give Gnome3 a shot! Sure it needs some little tweaks but I think you could make it really good!
win8 did come installed. A licence costs around £70 and the laptop I ordered was £100 less than the one I was sent so I'm not complaining
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Very nice- I especially like the icons. I have a very similar ASUS laptop (looks identical, a few different specs). eOS runs splendidly on these machines- I hope you're enjoying it.
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I absolutely am! I was unsure about it at first because of the low price tag and it coming with Win8 but this is a little shire horse! It just keeps on going whatever I throw at it. Perfect for just music and word processing as I need it for.
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gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/S…
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gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/S…
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I'm waiting for a reply from the photographer on if I can make a set with it
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Where can I find the said icon theme? Looks so clean and nice!
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My modification includes the UbuntuOne clean indicator and an icon for MyPaint and also leaves all the file manager icons as default.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post my changes but all credits for original parts to whoever made them.
Here's mine: sta.sh/0wcbu5jh7k7
To install unzip into ~/.icons and use elementary Tweaks to set
For tweaks and 3rd Party program elementary icons:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:versable/elementary-update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
sudo apt-get install elementary-thirdparty-icons
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Thanks! Where's the original icon set then, may I ask?
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I'm afraid I have no idea... The tutorial that listed a load of icon sets that I got it from has removed it from the list and when I searched around a little I couldn't find it either. It was called Blue though, that's all I can say really... I left the original AUTHORS and Copying files in the folder so you can have a look through them but I'm not sure where the original has gone. I ran the terminal command and it said it couldn't find the packages. They were 'elementary-blue-icons'
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I made something like this in my old laptop. Look here: davidsousarj.deviantart.com/ar…
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thanks for sharing!
Check this out if you want and UbuntuOne indicator that fits with the rest of eOS gemneroth.deviantart.com/art/M…
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DUDE! NICE!
I only wish I can install it on my laptop... lol
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Thanks! You never know, linux is pretty good when it comes to drivers now
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that is true!
but I mean I only wish I can install it on my machine because... it's already occupied with a distro
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What a waste installing elementaryOS on when you need it for Uni.
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Why do you think it's a waste?
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nice. that asus looks sick makes me want to get one
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It is really nice! You can tell that it's made of plastic but I only spent £320 on it and for the hardware and the look, I'm not complaining.
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Looks nice, but I have to ask, why they gave you a newer model laptop .. as you never did explain this in the description.
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An accident on their behalf, the models must have been next to each other in the warehouse and someone picked up the wrong one. An accident I was happy to keep to myself c:
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