I'd like a realistic-looking aquarium/ocean scene screensaver. Does anyone have any favourites that I ought to look at, please?
There have been similar threads in the past, but they're all several years old now, and I wondered if there were some better new screensavers available.

In the Linux world, xscreensaver's Atlantis module isn't too bad, but I wouldn't mind seeing something more colorful (Atlantis is deep sea--whales and sharks; some tropical would be nice, at least while the Great Barrier Reef still lives.

The Linux screensaver world is very different from Windows'. You do not commonly find third-party screensavers for download and installation.

Xscreensaver is the granddaddy of all the major Linux screensavers and most of the others that I've encountered are respins of Xscreensaver branded by various desktop projects (e.g. Gnome-screensaver, MATE-screensaver, kscreensaver). As far as I am concerned, none of those respins stand up to the original; if I install a distro with one of them, I replace it will Xscreensaver.

That's just my experience, mind.

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+1 Xscreensaver...

check this out: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg
or another way to make a video screensaver from some HD.

I haven't actually tried it, but Asciiquarium and its forks look to be worth a try.

it also allows for a swf (aka flash) file to be played, i could imagine some aquarium flash animation exists...

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+1

In Linux, I think Atlantis is the best one is going to get. Not that it's bad at all, (in fact, it's my favorite screesaver in Linux,) it's just not as realistic as some of the aquarium screensaver software I've seen for Windows.

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