I’m a macbro who’s been using the terminal for eight years. I downloaded an Archlinux VM for UTM (macOS Tahoe) and I like it, I just wish the text was bigger. I know you don’t get Arch because of its snazzy UI, you do it so you can do…Idk, cool 1337 h4x0r shit? I seriously don’t know, you guys, I’ve only been an Arch user for like three days.
GNOME Files (Nautilus) doesn’t have a setting that lets you switch between file type icons and app icons. That’s one thing that makes GNOME different from Windows. There might be a workaround, though, you could try a different file manager, but I’m not aware of one that specificall yimplements the kind of app-based icons you get with Windows