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I just discovered the source of all your problems by reading your previous post.

The Surface Go 1 is a UEFI system. The Acer Aspire 5737z is a legacy BIOS system and thus can't boot UEFI partitions. If your Aspire was a UEFI system, what you did probably would have worked just fine - no need for a special snazzy distro (no offense, NixOS users).

I'm actually extremely surprised no one noticed this before me.

From here, you have a few routes:

• Flash the install to the drive, and try to downgrade it to a legacy BIOS system.
  • I would not recommend doing this. Your life will probably become a living nightmare. If you love pain, though, here's a forum post to get you started: https://askubuntu.com/questions/910409/change-from-uefi-to-legacy
• Reinstall Fedora and copy just your Gnome config over - from what I can tell, it's just a few directories.
  • This is a Python script that says it exports all that crap for you, but what do I know? I just use XFCE.
• Buy a slightly newer device (maybe 2012/2013-ish at the earlist, probably originally designed for Windows 8.x) that support UEFI so you could just use the image.
  • Honestly, I am a bit conflicted on this option, as I don't exactly like not reusing the Aspire. However, this may be the easiest way out, and maybe you could put the Aspire to use as a server in a home lab instead.
• Try NixOS like others have been saying. Learning things is fun when you have the time - I don't, and so stick with Debian.

What themes do you have installed, and which theme are you trying to switch to? Also, can you confirm what distro and DE you're using as well as any major customizations so I can try and replicate the problem in an Arch VM, please?

Before I continue, you should probably specify your budget explicitly.

With that said, almost anything older than a few years should do what you need to just fine. I have a Lenovo Yoga 710 from 2016 that works decent, and had an old Fujitsu Lifebook from 2010 that wasn't too shabby as well. Heck, I once booted Linux off a cheap piano black Toshiba laptop originally made for Vista.

Just choose a random old laptop and you'll most likely be good.

Question: What are you developing?

With that said, NixOS would probably be fine, if not better than fine. From what I can tell, I don't think Guix would be a good idea - the packages appear out of date, according to their package manager. They're still on Python 3.10.

However, I might recommend Debian Testing to you for your purposes. Most of the time, packages are pretty recent, maybe a few months old at the most (sometimes just a few weeks), but you still get most of the stability of regular Debian. The only asterisk is when the freeze happens. I think apt may have gotten some updates as well.

I've been using it on my desktop PC for over two-and-a-half years. I will say I have grown a bit weary of it, as it gets so many updates and software changes so fast. On my laptop, I went with stable and plan to switch or stable on my desktop once Trixie gets stable.

In brief, Testing isn't bad. I'd almost recommend a development VM.

Additionally, I think 3.18 onward doesn't even support theming engines. As said, though, GIMP is stuck on GTK2.

If you're having a lot of trouble, perhaps just go with the Flatpak.

No. GTK 3 was a breaking change, and so was 4.

Please specify:

• What distribution
• What architecture
• What desktop environment
• What you have done so far to try to resolve the problem (e.g have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the package?)

Based on your host name, I'm assuming it's Arch. From what I can tell from the terminal output, Ghostscript is missing (thus the libgs.so error). Maybe try reinstalling it with Pacman. Did you update your system and it somehow got autoremoved (I don't know Arch that well)?

I almost had a panic attack until I realized this was for UBlock Origin Lite rather than the normal, manifest v2 version. Still mad at Mozilla,though.

I could be totally delusional, but I think it's just something like dd if=whatchamacallit.dmg of=whatchamacallit.img. I think you can get a net install image through macrecovery, which is a utility included with OpenCore packages.

I think this VM is still on Sonoma, actually. I still need to upgrade.

I can't remember exactly what I did to get an installer image, but there's a million shell scripts online for downloading macOS installer images. For booting it, I use this premade OpenCore for KVM/Proxmox. I have to check if I made other modifications (I run on an AMD CPU), but I think I mainly just had to set the serial and model - I personally used a 2019 Mac Pro.

My university's introductory CS course has us using Java. It's a web IDE within a textbook, but weirdly enough, I found it's actually just connected to an AWS instance of Ubuntu.

I myself have been daily driving since my sophomore year of high school.

I think the answer is obvious. There are so many better alternatives available today. Some examples include:

• Windows ME
• Glorious Leader's Red Star OS
• Temple OS
• Don't use an operating system - sacrifice all your your time to studying the ways of the mighty Zarthadonatoxator instead. All hail Zarthadonatoxator! Zarthadonatoxator is the only true way!