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[Bella She/her]

Choco, if you ever want to brainstorm strategies for art sales, lmk! I'm in a similar boat with commissioned art.

(Which BTW if you know anyone interested in commissions send them my way. I can DM my portfolio.)

In a forum relevant topic for projects/hobbies, I was talked into trying out Garuda Linux on one machine, so that was a project. I had so many small bugs add up over time that even on just a for fun machine it wasn't really sustainable (the funniest one that was relatively harmless was setting the built in firefox as my default browser nuked the firefox icon system wide into a '?' lmao), hence the reinstall (of unfortunately, for that machine, Windows lol). I did give thought on what an OS-Tan for Garuda would be like! I imagined a dragon. Hm, poor wording maybe. Surprisingly, Garuda comes with a Linux tan in its default wallpaper selection.

How are you liking Garuda? I would love to hear about your ideas for a Garuda-tan. ^_^

Not only do I still get enjoyment out of said art, I still actively use it for wallpapers in my rotations, they're super cute. I also even noticed you uploaded a Mac tan and System 6 tan artwork to the gallery recently, ones I had commissioned actually! If you'd like to tag the artist, it's Kennymap as the filename implies. I do have a Cheetah tan one as well I'll likely hand off... who I've noticed has been getting love recently! As the tan I use for my main desktop, that was pleasing!

Nifty, I'll tag them! And yes Cheetah-tan seems to be getting her flowers recently, which makes me happy, I've always been a big fan of her design.

[Krizonar She/Her]

Choco, if you ever want to brainstorm strategies for art sales, lmk! I'm in a similar boat with commissioned art.

(Which BTW if you know anyone interested in commissions send them my way. I can DM my portfolio.)

How are you liking Garuda? I would love to hear about your ideas for a Garuda-tan. ^_^

Nifty, I'll tag them! And yes Cheetah-tan seems to be getting her flowers recently, which makes me happy, I've always been a big fan of her design.

Hello, it's me, I love commissioning artists, I am an interested, especially in OS tan stuff! lol (this System 6 icon is relatively new as well, snagged all my computers one in this style)

As for Garuda, it had a sleek but not quite gaudy looking interface even if some of the setting locations were nonsensical (to turn off window tiling, you don't go to the area literally named 'window behavior settings', you go to, drumroll, 'display settings'!). While it was pretty buggy too (touted as also including its own installer, it couldn't update its own AUR files and just did a popup that says 'use external program') it had its charm, and unlike most times I've tried Linux, hey, it ran! Pretty decently too, benchmarks seemed to give it around W11 performance. As for their tan, their iconography and style, as well as some included backgrounds, focus on an eastern style dragon and the closer to namesake eagle, so I had immediately pictured it as a type of haughty looking bird girl (feathered arms maybe), perhaps with eastern dragon like horns that jut back on the head for a crown-like hat, which would fit the mythology a little. I didn't have the system installed long, but I did think about it a little!

Still Macs over here for main machines though, naturally, I just have a separate machine for some fun still.

[Chocofreak13]

Bells' art blows mine out of the water, lol. but life is about constantly improving, right?

@Krizonar - thank you for the condolences, though the parent lost was abusive, so i have.....mixed feelings about that. i grieved what my Dad WASN'T, not what he WAS. at the very least life has been brighter without his constant dark cloud hanging over. but yeah, mixed feelings. as for the other stuff, i quit the job in a spectacular fashion, my first bout of covid was like being Rip Van Winkel in that i mostly slept the whole time and lost like, 2 and a half weeks, i was only homeless for about two months in the summer and at least had a car to sleep in (miss that car), and we're doing what we can for Mum's diagnosis (she's going in for more tests in a few weeks, then hopefully medication). sorry for trauma dumping, lol.

@Bella - i need to get better at the whole commission thing, but i undervalue myself and the ADHD keeps my mind like a sparkler in that it bounces from one thing to the next. so it's quite hard to lock in on that...