Is that LXDE or LXDE-gtk3?
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I just did:
sudo apt-get install lxde
I added the Redmond-Themes to get Vista theme but it made the open apps in the panel white out in terms of labels so changed to Arc Dark. The Windows Button was within the Downloaded 'Redmond-Themes' from 'Windows 7 Blue' icons/orbs/orb1.png
The LXDE panel has always had that bevelled 'Vista' look. The wallpaper was one from 'gnome' background folder.
Would lxde-gtk-3 allow me to install the ArcMenu/Theme?
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Yes, it generally is the same, just includes gtk3 support. Some of the apps seem improved.
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I'll see if I can do it! 
But it's PS4 time now!
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Yes ... I like the gray shades better myself .... as it is more easier on my eyes .... and after staring at a a screen all day .... for me white is way to bright and makes me squint and dark can sometimes be to dark ....
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LXDE with DeLorean Dark Stripped 3.9 from Deviant Art:
Well there is a problem with this theme as you can tell the menu bar in LibreOffice is all squashed up (and the browser becomes unusable) - shame really - was always a favourite theme of mine in earlier releases of Zorin - no longer on Pling - I see quite a few themers have moved to Deviant Art and the link from here:
takes you to opendesktop.org and doesn't find anything and you then have to go to pling page, then pling.com - it is clearly a dying site (Pling) which in some ways is a good thing! (Almost a rhyme!)
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KDE Plasma with Sweet Theme - Wallpaper reminiscent of Zorin 7 with Hexagonal Wallpaper!:
file:///home/swarfendor437/Pictures/KDE Plasma Zorin 7 themed.jpg
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Well been playing around and somehow managed to screw up KDE - now the display says it is 1920 x 1080 and 77 Hz but no way of choosing others and everything looks big!:
file:///home/swarfendor437/Pictures/KDE gone wrong.jpg
I've also noticed that if the top of a picture's background is light or white it changes the fonts to outlined and shadowed! Aaargggh! And you thought only Gnome project got it wrong!
Noticed there is a glitch in Sweet on Zorin as cannot use the Plasma style for the clock like I can in Devuan because Devuan uses Plasma 5.22, Zorin 5.18.
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Thank you for those links .... I added them to my Zorin Desktop Theme Bookmarks in my browser .... I briefly looked at the sites and I'll explore them when I have more time ....
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Ubuntu 21.10 is still on 5.13 kernel ? Pop! OS 21.10 (based on ubuntu) uses 5.15.8 already.
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Pop! OS stays ahead. One of the many reasons I like Pop! OS is that they always use the latest kernel. Ubuntu 20.04 uses 5.11 but Pop! os 20.04 uses 5.13. I am planning to switch Zorin OS to Pop! OS on my other computer within a few weeks. The only thing I am concerned about is how stable is the new Cosmic DE and if it is faster than gnome.
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Just a suggestion .... it might be wise to wait just a bit to see how it ll pans out .... to many times people want the newest and latest of things like cars .... electronic items and OS's just to mention a few .... it is safer to let others workout the bugs for you ....
As I said just a suggestion .... LOL
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That's why I haven't switched yet.
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Wise man .... I only got burnt once and i said never again ....
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Well I really like the KDE plasma Garuda And the kernel is zen They steak on the cutting edge but stable so for my tweak or machine this is wonderful. But I love Zorin because it was reliable up until this last update where they get the screen flickering and it’s not been followed through with
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Bubby, when use Garuda and log in to the forum, trying to reply - you don't have this flickering??
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I think this problem (flickering forum) is in every os. It is in kubuntu, windows and manjaro also.
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You mean the one in 21.04 and 21.10 or do you mean the new DE they are working on to ditch gnome ?
Why ? Zorin OS will 16 stick with kernel 5.11. Otherwise they would already made the switch to 5.15. Pop! OS is better and faster (with kernel and driver support) compared to Zorin, you can't deny that. When i used Zorin 16 back in august they used the nvidia driver from june. When i downloaded the Pop! OS 21.04 iso they where using the nvidia driver from august. It took some time before Zorin used that driver, but when they did it nvidia already released a newer one.
Also boottimes with grub used by zorin is much slower then the systemd boot that pop os is using. I made 2 videos in the past showing the boottimes. If you played the zorin video first and 5 seconds later you turned the pop os video on... pop os beats zorin in booting. The difference in booting is 15-20 seconds.
Linux Kernel 5.15 Features
As you’d expect, Linux 5.15 includes an impressive itinerary of improvements. These range from small fixes at lower levers through to major restructuring of core functionality. The following roundup highlights the additions that caught my interest/eye but is by no means an exhaustive run-through.
The headline change in Linux 5.15 the inclusion of a new NTFS file system driver, ‘NTFS3’. If you read or write to an NTFS partition in Linux (in distros like Ubuntu) it’s probably been using the older user-space
ntfs-3gdriver. In Linux 5.15 the kernel gains a new and hugely improved NTFS implementation thanks to code from.
Also new is
ksmbd— a new in-kernel SMB file server. This is not intended to replace Samba but compliment it by providing a lightweight and fast kernel-space module offering server-side SMB3 with ‘better lease handling’ that’s compatible with user-space tools and libraries.After 17 years of development realtime preemption locking code
; and DRAM memory pages are now moved to persistent memory instead of being discarded.
The effort to get Linux working on Apple Silicon continues to bear fruit. Amongst many smaller changes is a new Apple M1 IOMMU driver. While Linux on M1 isn’t quite “end-user ready” yet the pace of progress is fast. Expect further leaps forward in this area by the time Linux 5.16 rolls out.
Linux 5.15 includes high resolution scrolling for the Apple Magic Mouse; a newer Realtek RTL8188EU Wi-Fi driver; a driver that allows access to OTP read-only memory on the Wii U — 1UP SFX — and support for power profiles on select Acer laptops.
Among a swathe of single-board computer additions is mainline kernel support for the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX developer kit.
Further Intel Alder Lake support is included, while groundwork is laid for AMD Cyan Skillfish and Intel XeHP and DG2/Alchemist graphics. There’s also a new AMD Van Gogh APU audio driver which will benefit the upcoming Steam Deck.
Among numerous file system improvements is a
enhancements to EXT4 (Ubuntu’s default file system) including better
delallocbuffer write performance; EROFS filesystems now support direct I/O on uncompressed files; and Btrfs picks up support forfs-verityfile integrity assurance to allow the kernel to detect any modifications made to individual read-only files.
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