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      Compiz won over so many new users back then. Wobbly windows and desktop cubes may not have been super practical, but they sure looked impressive.

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        The amount of times I’ve tabbed in and out of WoW in front of my friends just to flex that not only it doesn’t crash, but it’s fancy too. Or just give the game a little shake and wobble to mess around while it’s loading.

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      I searched trans in KDE widget store (should show transparent panel), after installed add it to the panel and click on it while in editor mode (it’s sometimes reset to default panel after restart)

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    Yes, my EOS/KDE brother/sister/enby

    Switched from Windows about a year ago, and have felt zero need to even try another distro or desktop environment.

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    Decided to throw OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on an old laptop the other day. Haven’t fooled with it enough to run up against any limitations yet, but I gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised so far.

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    I’m on gnome on my daily desktop, and I hate it ! Thinking to switch to KDE but when I read that it took them 10 years to implement a good fuse “alternative” to make samba share work properly… I’m really hesitant to switch…

    Gnome is great, but I hate the MacOS feeling… Everything seems soo… Proprietary :/ Maybe something more lightweight like XFCE will fit into my workflow.

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    🤔 hating the windows UI and then going to KDE which is basically a more customizable windows UI seems…odd

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        The windows UI being boring doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by a lack of customizability. The windows UI is just a boring UI design even if you make it more customizable. Makes it better, but doesn’t fix the problem IMO.

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          Yes, but it has some “quirks” that for somebody are a waste of time. Sometimes better and usable is enough.

          For example I profoundly hate the start menu’s suggested apps default window. I just want it to list all apps when I click it. And on win 11 this is not customizable.

          Everyone has his use case.

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    I love and use Linux and while this looks better than the atrocity Microsoft is selling, let’s not fool ourselves. This is still ugly as hell.

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      That’s just personal preference tho. I don’t personally like it either but that’s part of the reason I use GNOME, I think that looks absolutely great. Great thing about Linux is that you don’t have to use KDE Plasma or GNOME or whatever other DE, you can choose what you like the most.

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        No Linux desktop has ever looked „great“. It’s only been a few years since they became somewhat presentable, but we’re not there yet.

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      No one is forcing you or anyone to use KDE. You don’t like it? Cool, choose one of the other options available.

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        Thanks for explaining the concept of window managers to me who’s used Linux since decades 🙄