My journey to a different Linux distribution turned out to be quite bumpy. After making my flash drive bootable with Xubuntu 20.04 LTS, I restarted the desktop and ran the installation. It went smoothly and when I finally got into the desktop environment, I headed to my own wiki page.

After copying the content of install.sh and pasted it in a new file with the same filename via the terminal, I run it and waited for it to be done.It turned out that it skipped a lot since none of the softwares I included got installed + some other things. I went through everything again, step-by-step, and that worked.

I opened Software & Drivers to see what graphic drivers I had to choose from. But to my surpise, all the options were disabled besides of the last one (the active one). I didn't think that much about it at the time.

I finished the installations and configurations and restarted the computer. When I came back to the desktop environment, the resolution was set to 640x480. "What in the world...", I thought to myself, and opened Display from settings. 640x480 was the only option! Restarted the computer again, nothing changed. Searched for a solution, found sudo apt install nvidia-460 so I ran that command and restarted the computer.

The issue persisted so I gave up and was going to restart the computer in order to boot to Windows 10. But, I couldn't. Nothing happened when I clicked on the whisker menu and no keyboard shortcuts worked. What the actual fuck?! I did the forbidden: a hard shutdown. I'm sorry, computer.

The end of the nightmare... sort of

After downloading the same ISO file but in Windows this time, and made the flash drive bootable again via Rufus, I restarted the computer and let it boot from the flash drive. The installation looked different. Fewer options compared to before.

After the installation, I went to my wiki page again and copied and pasted the content in install.sh, and ran the bash script. Huh. It actually installed everything this time. I went to Software & Drivers again and waited for the additional drivers to load. I was able to choose desire drivers! Woho!

Restarted the computer and hoped for the best. Everything loaded just fine. Yay! But! I can't change the top bar of every window, even if I choose a different theme (also downloaded ones). The top bar didn't change its appearance, more than making it light or dark depending on what theme I chose.

Super annoying!

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But that's not all! Having autism, I can annoy me even for a small thing like having Firefox and Atom in the wrong order in the taskbar when they are open. And I can't do shit about it, even if I first open Firefox and then Atom! Atom always come before Firefox! Gah!!

Switched back to Linux Mint Cinnamon

I liked Xubuntu at first, but after a while, I didn't liked it at all. I got tired of the issues and the thought about being forced to configure more than I had to. For an example, I didn't like the file manager (Thunar). So I ended up installing Linux Mint Cinnamon again.

Have now "perfected" the system to my liking and also improved my install.sh script. I also created a backup.sh which will backup my configurations and databases once in a while through crontab. The backup script will backup my files to Backblaze B2 CLoud Storage.