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I have to say that it took until Valve adopted KDE for the Steam Deck for me to really take it seriously - I have just always used a GNOME distro. KDE has pret

I have to say that it took until Valve adopted KDE for the Steam Deck for me to really take it seriously - I have just always used a GNOME distro. KDE has pretty ugly default window theming IMO. Like, quite grotesque. But the GNOME project is overall quite preposterous. It's a main-stream-but-hipster GUI environment where their philosophy does not match how any user wants to use it, hence all the (basically) mandatory extensions. Yes, I want window controls and a dock! KDE has way too much customization I think, but at least it has accepted a more sane philosophy. I was thinking of trying the Fedora KDE spin next. I feel that the other shoe has dropped recently - I could honestly see GNOME getting dropped. Cosmic did it and nearly every major distro has a KDE spin.

prmoustache 3y ago
I must be the only user that like the gnome defaults then. Only thing I need to configure is focus over mouse (no extension needed) and I like to have the top bar transparent (extension needed but I can live without it, it is cosmetic and I haven't installed it on all my machines).
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kitsunesoba 3y ago
In my eyes the biggest problem with GNOME's theming is the egregious padding everywhere in Adwaita. Installing a theme with cut down padding makes it much more reasonable and in my opinion puts it among the best looking DEs. Agreed on GNOME's lack of functionality though…
dabluecaboose 3y ago
>KDE has way too much customization I think My biggest issue with KDE themeing (or just linux ricing in general) is just the massive amount of possibilities and no guard rails. All it takes is changing one color and you end up with some godawful ugly setup. I was messing with a live Manjaro USB on one of my annual "Is desktop linux there yet" expeditions and found the best success in just picking one of the top-downloaded themes in the store and maybe tweaking one thing from it, like the folder colors. Much as I'd love a perfect and elegant personally-customized theme, I don't have the skills to do it, and I'd rather just have something that's 99% there.
- mazu1 3y ago
  What is "linux ricing"?
  - olliej 3y ago
    I'm guessing it's a reference to the fairly racist label of a "ricer" or "rice rocket" for modified Japanese sports cars :-/
    - lmm 3y ago
      Nothing racist about it, it's derived from the practice of putting cheap sake in in the hope that it would work like MW50 injection (it doesn't).
      - prmoustache 3y ago
        This is definitely a racist term that was targetting modified japanese cars. It should have been forgotten long ago instead of importing it in the computer world where it doesn't even make sense.
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  - DrBazza 3y ago
    Theming your Linux desktop to look totally different. See r/unixporn
Barrin92 3y ago
I've been using default GNOME for ages and I'm happy with it. I use the keyboard very heavily so I've never been bothered with the window controls. Saying KDE has too much customization is putting it mildly, the thing feels like an Airbus cockpit. There's unironically half a dozen menus to change themes alone. Like Windows it feels like you're on three versions of the system at the same time ranging 15 years back. Say what you want about ripping stuff out but GNOME has what I also appreciate about macs, it has a coherent design language.

prmoustache 3y ago

I must be the only user that like the gnome defaults then. Only thing I need to configure is focus over mouse (no extension needed) and I like to have the top bar transparent (extension needed but I can live without it, it is cosmetic and I haven't installed it on all my machines).

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kitsunesoba 3y ago

In my eyes the biggest problem with GNOME's theming is the egregious padding everywhere in Adwaita. Installing a theme with cut down padding makes it much more reasonable and in my opinion puts it among the best looking DEs. Agreed on GNOME's lack of functionality though…

dabluecaboose 3y ago

>KDE has way too much customization I think My biggest issue with KDE themeing (or just linux ricing in general) is just the massive amount of possibilities and no guard rails. All it takes is changing one color and you end up with some godawful ugly setup. I was messing with a live Manjaro USB on one of my annual "Is desktop linux there yet" expeditions and found the best success in just picking one of the top-downloaded themes in the store and maybe tweaking one thing from it, like the folder colors. Much as I'd love a perfect and elegant personally-customized theme, I don't have the skills to do it, and I'd rather just have something that's 99% there.

mazu1 3y ago
What is "linux ricing"?
- olliej 3y ago
  I'm guessing it's a reference to the fairly racist label of a "ricer" or "rice rocket" for modified Japanese sports cars :-/
  - lmm 3y ago
    Nothing racist about it, it's derived from the practice of putting cheap sake in in the hope that it would work like MW50 injection (it doesn't).
    - prmoustache 3y ago
      This is definitely a racist term that was targetting modified japanese cars. It should have been forgotten long ago instead of importing it in the computer world where it doesn't even make sense.
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- DrBazza 3y ago
  Theming your Linux desktop to look totally different. See r/unixporn

Barrin92 3y ago

I've been using default GNOME for ages and I'm happy with it. I use the keyboard very heavily so I've never been bothered with the window controls. Saying KDE has too much customization is putting it mildly, the thing feels like an Airbus cockpit. There's unironically half a dozen menus to change themes alone. Like Windows it feels like you're on three versions of the system at the same time ranging 15 years back. Say what you want about ripping stuff out but GNOME has what I also appreciate about macs, it has a coherent design language.