 In my opinion, I think aesthetics plays a vital role in Linux adoption, especially adoption on the desktop, because those of us that use desktop Linux, it's all about making our desktops look attractive, gorgeous, sexy, right? It's that experience, that's why we keep coming back to desktop Linux. And I think one of the most important factors in creating this attractive desktop is the icon sets. Today, I wanted to cover eight of my favorite icon sets available on Linux. Next up is the ever popular Papyrus icon set, which is a free and open source icon set SVG, so Scalable Vector Graphics, and it's available in many Linux distributions repositories. Of course, I'm using ARCO Linux and ArchBase Distribution. All of the icon sets that I talk about today are actually available in the AUR, the Arch User Repository. Papyrus comes in a number of different variants. You've got a dark Papyrus, you've got a light Papyrus, depending on whether you're using a lighter, dark GTK theme. You've also got a Papyrus for those of you that are on elementary Papyrus is also available on the Snap Store as well as this list of distributions here to see Papyrus in action. This is what Papyrus looks like here in PCMan FM, which is the file manager I'm currently using. This is Papyrus dark and this is just the default blue variant for the folder colors, although there are various coloring variants for Papyrus if you prefer a different folder color than the default blue. The reason Papyrus has become such a popular icon set is because it's a very large collection of icons and they're very consistent and they also have some really nice coloring. As far as they're pretty bold colors, right? The colors stand out, the blue, the greens, if I go into maybe .config, let's take a look at some other different kind of files. Let's see how some Python files look, so let's go into the Qtile folder. You can see very distinctive icons here, got a very distinctive trash icon as well here in the folder bookmarks here. Overall, if you're new to Linux and you're unsure about icon sets, which ones are large and extensive and pretty much got you covered for all file types, Papyrus is a good one to default to. Next is the very popular candy icons. Now candy is interesting because you've probably seen candy because it's a icon set that is the default icon set for Garuda Linux. For those of you that have used Garuda and their KDE version, I believe also XeroLinux was also using the candy icons for a time as well. These are a very distinctive icon set. If I go back to my file manager, here are what the candy icons look like in action in thumbnail mode here inside PCManFM and I've got these icons set to a pretty large size that way you guys can see them clearly. The candy icon set has good coverage. It's got a lot of different icons for a lot of different file types. If I go into .config and let's see if I've got anything for LuaFiles. So let's go into my awesome window manager folder. No LuaFiles are just some plain file icons like the default file icon. But look at that markdown icon. I love that with the down arrow. Yeah, so you know, if you're one of these people that want just a explosion of color on your desktop or in your file managers with these icon types, definitely check out the candy icon set. Another favorite of mine is the Quora icon set. Now Quora is a very saturated blue icon set, very rectangular in shape, but it is very consistent as far as it's a very consistent theme. You can see I've got some unique icons for your browser, such as Firefox and Brave and the file type icons. For example, you've got your tar icon, your deb icon, your torrent icon, app image icons, right? These are very unique and they're skinnier than the other icons. So yeah, Quora is, you know, quite unique icon set. And it's one of my favorites here in recent months. I've actually used Quora quite a bit on my system because I do like blue icons. Now, for some of you, it may be a little too saturated because these blue icons, I mean, they're almost blinding blue, right? These are very highly saturated icons. But one thing you can't say, you can't say that, you know, it's a boring icon set, right? Because these things really do stand out. Let me go into my Xmoned directory and let's see how some of these files look. And it's just a standard file type icon. You can see there is the shell icon, and then they do have a org mode icon. So you see the unicorn that is the mascot for org mode, right? So they've even got a dedicated org mode icon in the set. So that is a very nice touch as well. Next up is Koger. Now Koger is actually the icon theme that I have been using here lately, just because for me, I kind of like it and that it's not too flashy. But at the same time, it's got some character, right? It's got some color variants. And, you know, they do stand out. You've got some circular icons. You also got some squarish icons. It's a mixture, right? It's not as monotonous as some icon sets. And let me open my file manager. And this is Koger in the file manager by default. It defaults to a blue icon set, which, again, I like blue icons. And for me, this blue is not as saturated, right? It's kind of faded in color a little bit. And that's a little easier on my eyes, especially when I'm using it with a dark GTK theme. You can also see they're very consistent with the file type icons. You can see they're all pretty much white icons, so very light colored icons. If I go into .config, let's check out Qtile. Again, let's see how the Python icons look. Well, they just have Pi written on a plain file icon. So, you know, nothing too interesting there. Let's check the Lua files. The Lua files look quite a bit more interesting. So do the Markdown files. Overall, Koger, it's been the one I've been using lately and I've been satisfied with it. Next up is the icon set I do wanna mention. It's not one that I've used a lot in my past, but I do know it's a popular icon set and I know a lot of you guys on Linux really try to recreate the macOS look and feel. So let's talk about White Sur. So White Sur, as you can imagine, is a very heavily inspired macOS-like icon set. Here is a preview of it. You can see they're essentially very consistent as far as the rounded squares, as far as the shapes. To see this icon set in action, let me open my file manager and this is White Sur. As far as your default folder icons and file type icons, if I go into .config, let's check out, once again, some Python icons, just very kind of generic Python icons. Really nothing to see there. How do they do with Haskell files? The Haskell files, I quite like that. The Haskell logo. Of course, I think really the claim to fame with White Sur is for those of you trying to create the macOS look and feel with a top panel and a bottom dock and having these big macOS-like icons and a dock at the bottom. Of course, I don't use docks. I'm a tiling window manager or user, but I did want to mention White Sur for those of you that do prefer the macOS workflow and paradigm. And because I can't leave out those of you that really love the Windows aesthetic and the look and feel of, say, Windows 10, I do have to mention the W10X icon set. So this is a Windows-inspired icon set. And you can see it's very Windows-like, right? Anybody that's used Windows 10, Windows 11, you can tell that this is very heavily inspired by the Windows icon set. If I go to my file manager here, you can see by default there are some color variants, but you can see this is another one that's very saturated, very bright. You can see the yellow icons here for the folder icons are extremely bright, almost blinding. It's like hot as the sun. Some of the more interesting icons. I do love the desktop and videos, pictures with the folder, but then they have a almost like a second icon superimposed over the folder icon. That's very unique. I also love the trash icon. It's a little small here in the file manager bookmarks, but it's a very squarish like trash can that's candid off to an angle. And let's see how they do with some more unique file types. So once again, just because Python should be supported, let's see how their Python icons look. Yeah, just the plain file icon with the Python logo superimposed over it. How do they do with Haskell? It's basically the same, just a plain vanilla document icon with the Haskell logo superimposed over it. The final icon set I have to mention is the Yaru icon set. So Ubuntu has the Yaru icon set that it created for of course Ubuntu, but of course you can install the icon set on any Linux distribution. And it is absolutely gorgeous. I think it is maybe the most attractive icon set available out there for desktop Linux. Just overall the theming on desktop Ubuntu has always been really good, even though I'm not an Ubuntu user these days on the desktop, I love Ubuntu on the server. But you know, I do appreciate the fact that what Ubuntu has done for desktop Linux, I love their font family. The Ubuntu fonts are absolutely fantastic, very easy on the eyes, especially Ubuntu mono is great if you work in a text editor or a terminal all day long. And this rather new icon set, the Yaru icon set, which they created I think just a couple of years ago for I think it came out around the last Ubuntu LTS. This thing is absolutely gorgeous. It's very unique. It really stands out. Of course, by default it is orange and purple in color, right, as far as the color variants. Let me go ahead and open my file manager here. But the Yaru theme does have a number of color variants out there. If you don't like the purple and orange, there are variants for blue icons and green icons and red icons, whatever color you need. Let me go into dot config and check out some of the programming language specific files, the Python files look, you know, like they pretty much always do in every icon set. It's just a plain file, you know, a lot of these don't really change much. It's mainly, you know, the important things are the folder icons and things like the trash can, mounted file systems and things like that. And of course, we didn't talk about, you know, the smaller icons and things like the file manager, like your arrow buttons and things like that. But overall, I think the Yaru theme is one of the best ones out there. So which one do I tend to go with? Well, as I mentioned earlier, when we were going through the list here lately, the one I've really been enjoying was the Koger theme, Koger Dark since I'm using a dark theme. This is what I've been using lately. I think it's going to be the one I stick with. For the foreseeable future, what do you guys think? How did you like this group of seven icon sets that I showcased today on video? Also, do you have some other suggestions for great icon sets available for Linux? Let me know in the comments down below. Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. Gabe James, Matt Paul, Steve West, Arkotic Armor Dragon, Commander Angry, Darloff, George Lee, Matthew, Methos, Nate, Erion, Paul, Peace, Archon, Fedora, Realities for Less, Red Prophet, Roland, Soul-Ashtree, TNR, and Tools Devler, Wargento, Nibbuntu, and Willie. These guys, they're my highest-tiered patrons over on Patreon without these guys. 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