Slate Desktop for Windows 11

Contemporary Slate Desktop Setup for Windows 11 // Unlock powerful performance enhancements, system optimizations, and streamlined productivity tools—all wrapped in a sleek, modern design with an elegant acrylic touch.

Download:

https://github.com/QuiteAFancyEmerald/Slate-Desktop-for-Windows-11

CLI, configuration files, etc. are all located at the GitHub repository above.

Made in Python it runs through sources.json which serves as a transparent way of grabbing every asset needed. You can check it out to review direct links as well as a list of each project used.

Thanks to niivu for the super clean theme pi11z along with its icons !!!

Full credits at: https://github.com/QuiteAFancyEmerald/Slate-Desktop-for-Windows-11/

OS - Windows 11 LTSC 24H2/Windows 11 24H2/23H2/22H2/21H2
System Theme - pi11z by niivu
System Mods - SecureUxTheme, Winaero Theme Switcher, UXTheme Patcher, No!! MeiryoUI, JetBrainsMono Font, MacType, Chawye Hsu's MacType Profile
Windhawk (Explorer/Taskbar) - Windhawk (Clean up UWP processes + Taskbar height and icon size + Taskbar Labels for W11, Taskbar Clock Customization, Middle Click To Close On The Taskbar) (Config files provided in Github repo)
Explorer Mods - Winaero Tweaker, (StartAllBack/Stardock Software/Explorer Patcher [Free] - Choose depending on free vs paid), ExplorerBlurMica, explorerTool (for applying those background images which I found online), TransparentFlyoutsConfig, DWMBlurGlass, TranslucentTB, MicaForEveryone
Rainmeter - Zephyr 2.0 by smithxtt and Sonder by michaelpurses
Icons - pi11z Icons by niivu patched with 7TSP GUI 2019 (

devillnside); for a FOSS alternative you can use Resource Redirect Icon Themes by niivu/RamenSoftware w/ Windhawk but it takes more setup
Wallpaper - Wallpaper Engine (rain day by v1Tu5; Rainy street by Max)
Optimization Mods - ReviOS, AME Wizard (used for patching ReviOS), WinMemoryCleaner, optimizer, and winutils. (And Windows On Reins but this is expert/optional)
Browser - Ungoogled Chromium [Main Browser] (Rose Pine for Chrome, lavender | new tab, uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Hide YouTube Shorts, Enhancer for YouTube, LocalCDN, YouTube Distraction Blocker, Return YouTube Dislike, Startpage, Medium Parser) // Zen Browser (Firefox Alt for Development), Simply Darkish for Firefox by dpcdpc11
Mouse Cursor - VS CURSORS 20 by

vladsukhetskyi
Right-Click Menu/Tools - RightClickCompress, File Converter, WinSetView
Applications - Czkawka, K-Lite Codec Pack (VLC Replacement), Peazip, Obsidian, ShareX, nvidiaProfileInspector, Equalizer APO, ImageGlass, NVCleanInstall, winget, UniGetUI, Powershell 7, FFmpeg, TCP Optimizer, NextDNS, Powertoys (All installed automatically via winget via CLI script or downloaded via CLI)

pi11z patched with SecureUxTheme         .

The music client is called Cider 2!!

Idle CPU usage is around 0-3% with memory at 1.8-3GB (I have 96GB of RAM so it scales)!!!

Credits: I did NOT design any of the themes used; the best term for Slate Desktop is a "modpack" as its a collection of various themes, optimization tools, shell mods, etc. all bundled into a CLI tool.