I did this as a proof of concept in a vm, to see if it was possible. So far so good, and I am sure it would be perfectly stable on bare-metal as well.
I downloaded themes from Mint, the Fira fonts from my own repository on github, and changed some ui settings. I also am gonna setup a bspwm version later, if I can get to compile maim. I might put a package request up for that. (I can screenshot using that and xclip)
Okay, done on bare-metal this time. I changed the mouse cursor to a 24 px Bibata Modern Ice. Also ridiculous how a mouse cursor has a freaking CoC.
Very stable so far, will test watching streams and gaming and pianoing, because audio tends to crackle when I do that on Mint, and if I remember correctly, Arch with pipewire.
It is impressively stable until now. I have yet to try streaming from it, but when I listen to a stream and play a game and run Pianoteq at the same time from this, there are no pops, clicks or crackles as a result of me alt tabbing (still trying to understand why that even occurs or how that is even related) as it occurs on Linux Mint Cinnamon and Linux Mint Debian Edition. I have reinstalled Arch on the secondary SSD to later test if this happens there as well, but I have KDE installed which I will probably use with Wayland.
OpenMandriva Rock is solid. I did not get my whole DE removed when I uninstalled the display manager and changed it to LightDM, which is a huge plus. You cannot do that in some other places.
Very nice
