This is what was considered to be peak desktop customization 15 years ago. Desktop cube and wobbly windows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQXdpFQxBs

It’s all about an aesthetic wallpaper, a window tiling manager, transparent borders, some terminal widgets, and about 10px of space between windows

Nscde or nextspace

conky is very cool

https://github.com/vinceliuice/Colloid-gtk-theme

https://github.com/vinceliuice/Colloid-icon-theme

Check Vinceliuice’s Repo for more, any GTK themes should work with Mint.

Conky would be a start

install a tiling wm then, instead of wasting your substance on widgets :)

For inspiration https://youtu.be/LGpH_aYBvqY

I dig icon packs and tooling about with themes. Hidimari is a great live wallpaper program that even allows for streaming into your desktop (critical that you disable during full screen or your resources are munched). I for a bit had a hollow knight ost YouTube video that would just play in the background during idle.

I tend to just customise my Linux to look like a mac. Cos as much as I hate apple i rly like the UI theme. Although plank is kinda dead now and won’t survive the switch to wayland :( don’t think anyone else is making app dock things anymore unless its baked into the UI itself like elementary OS

Xeyes and catclock.

!unixporn, here are the mint posts

shoutout to the time we baited the chuds by getting ‘rice’ (verb) banned there

sorry I couldn’t be more help but I run nix+sway so idk much about desktop environments. any time I get the itch to better tune my desktop that comm’s where I go for inspiration