Any linux distros that don't look awful?

Any linux distros that don't look awful?

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anything with xfce or mate tBh

Unity with numix theme

To be brutally honest unity is perhaps the least ugly DE and most functional OOB there is.

Problem is that all linux share the same DE's and WM's so the only difference between distros is the theme so it's kinda irrelevant saying 1 doesn't look awfull just because of a theme.

TL;DR
All linux distros look the same because they can be customized to look like eachother.

i installed so called mini ubuntu and openbox on it
looks great

You can customize the look of your desktop so if it looks awful you have no one but yourself to blame.

ubuntu with unity

I cannot enjoy MATE. Arc theme fuck sup top panel

I am trying to. It runs light and great just the feel and look. Also the damn top icon menu

Solus

Unity looks alright

Needs to be a little brighter and trim away pointless elements though

Their DE is the best looking one on linux, and the most functional too.

How can a distro have any specific looks? It all depends on your DE and used theme...

Which is this? I am trying to get used to MATE and make it look nice

Default DE and theme.

That's Budgie Desktop. I pulled that image from their latest announcement on their blog. That's how the desktop looks by default but you can customize it a lot.

That's virtually the same thing as Gnome.

>distro
>look

You're obviously new. It's the DE that determines the look.

Been a while since I've used Gnome but I'm pretty certain this is an untruth

topjej
>go to their subreddit
>call buggy de fork of gnome
>fat fuck defends it and challenges you to prove it by showing source code
>call him a fat fuck
>get banned
lmao it was worth it

Pic related

>Linux
>Looking good
Pick one

Looks also like XFCE4

There are none. If you really want to make something eye pleasing then use a window manager or a desktop environment and then just build it and customise it yourself until it fits exactly what you want. It's the Linux Way™.

To be honest, xfce can looks like anything if you customize it enough.

wow, it's literally windows 10 after you put the taskbar at the top

The majority of DEs and themes I've seen all either look like an OS from 2004 or a bad rip off of OSX

Ubuntu MATE with Human theme

>wOW IT HAS A TASKBAR!! IT'S WINDOWSE TEN XDDDDD

Shut the fuck up.

nice bait

It's more like windows 10 combined with Mac OS. Their sidebar thing that's used for notifications/settings and applets basically looks like the one from mac os. Not necesarilly a bad thing tho, makes ut easier for wincucks to feel more at "home"

I don't like how I am forced to have main panel on TOP with mate and cannot remove the bottom. having panels on top and bottom feels just wrong. other than that I liked. back on windows now

Arch, because it's lightweight and easy to customize. This is my setup. Not the best, but I think it depends on you if it looks awful or not.
github.com/janpansa/bspwm

It's graphically identical, which is pretty much the only way to measure a GUI.

Looks nice, what bar is that?

Nope, been in Unix since the Slowlaris days and there hasn't ever been a good desktop environment, even when they tried to standardize on one (cde). GUI's go against the Unix philosophy and if you want a clean GUI with Unix you do what every other greybeard has done and switch to mac.

1. It looks fine.
2. Why do people care? Computers, especially linux boxes, are tools. Do you have fashion shows for power drills?

I don't think Cinnamon on Mint looks awful.

Fuck you whoever said Solus

well meme'd

#!

enjoy your broken and insecure system lwn.net/Articles/676664/

>linux with gui

why do people do this?

>hey mom, i posted it again!

I like that everything worked out the box. What would you suggest as an alternative? Ubuntu with Cinnamon?

/thread

The thing about any Linux distribution is that the devs aren't spending a lot of time making them pretty. A few cost money like ElementaryOS, but most remain gratis. The reason for this is that stability, security, and compatibility are more important than ricing which can easily be done by the user to fit his or her tastes. Ricing GNU/Linux is easy, especially with Ubuntu. I've been using Debian for about 5 years. Before that I used Windows since 98 SE. If you're looking for an easy to use distro with a Windows-like desktop environment look no further than Kubuntu. I added some simple dark themes but it's mostly stock. The whole thing took me about 30 minutes to find settings I liked. KDE also has KDE Connect so you can share files from Android to PC and use your phone as a keyboard and trackpad.

Forgot pic.

Since Windows 7 is gone all DE's of all now available Operating Systems look horrible. (Even MacOS)
The best looking one is still Gnome 3 Shell nowadays ... but I guess we all know that it is slow as shit, and that it need lots of ricing to look good.

/bread

Oh god my eyes!

how do you like kde5 & kwin?

Just works. Debian stretch is also super stable. Only thing I've noticed is that when I shut down or restart I sometimes get this odd glitch where the launcher moves to the middle of the screen and the stock wallpaper flashes quickly. It's ugly but only lasts a second and doesn't seem to have an effect on overall system performance or shutdown/boot times which is why I haven't investigated further. Not sure if OS or DE or both but Kubuntu didn't do this. Obviously I'm running an "unstable" version of my OS so little things like this can be expected.

I think this is more your speed OP.

xbuntu is comfy

>people visiting a technology board still can't separate a distro from a window manager

protip: install openbox on any distro and make it look however you want

>unironically using that fat blonde girl from criminal mind's desktop theme

What distro is this? It gives me a confused boner.

XFCE is ok but still has major issues like those hideous font shadows on the desktop icons by default.

Be nice to the noobs. This is why no one wants to use Linux, because you neckbeards drive them all away.

>not using that fat blonde girl from criminal mind's desktop theme

KDE.

youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

It's the DE that matters, not the distro

If only you could customize it somehow. Damn oh well!

what did you use to make that video?

So much this. What happened?

I miss the days where gnome 2 came shipped on everything

so you were using Windows 98 SE on 2011?

It's the screen recorder built into Gnome
I had to reencode it in ffmpeg though, since Sup Forums didn't like the original encoding

>since
Why can't you basic reading comprehension??

Not sure if sarcasm. But Mate is hard to. Like I said I have only tried so much. I just dont dig the two panel shit. If I am wrong and can be fixed let me know.

elementaryOS doesn't cost money

Solus looks pretty nice

Literally any of them, it's your choice of WM/DE and theme that decides how nice it looks.

>elementaryOS doesn't cost money
My bad, I thought it did.
>Solus looks pretty nice
I tried it. It was ok.

If you have a Chromebook, check out GalliumOS. Most polished and 'Just Werking' Linux experience I've ever had

Hello Snowden, show me your hard drive

agreed op , ubuntu looks like a sub-sahran african ate a dozen packets of skittles then had diarrhea shit on a rock

>To be brutally honest unity is perhaps the least ugly DE and most functional OOB there is.
looool

mentally retarded

>fags like this is the reason Linux has sub 1% marketshare in desktop

tfw you want linux on your 2nd computer dual booted but linux is too retarded to recognise any fucking partitions. y tho

tfw you're too retarded to configure your grub bootloader

He's right tho.

Pretty hard to come by a distro that doesn't look like cancer these days in my opinion. However check out Manjaro and Elementary OS, these are just two off of the top of my head.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Linux Mint XFCE

Autism

Gentoo + kms

Gnome is ok by default
KDE takes alot time to customize
Mate is meh at best
XFCE can be made good
Cinnamon is surprisingly nice
Unity is the most consistent tho

/thread

is this the new desktop thread

stay in the music player thread

if only there was 1 thread all desktop thread posters could be confined too on Sup Forums hmmmmm

fuuuuuuuuuuck

I've seen people do incredible things to a number of desktop environments. The picture I've attached (Gnome) is from one of the top posts on /r/unixporn (which has a few nice configurations in the top posts, but is otherwise not the best).

>

Best looking distros:
TidOS
Tidux
Lo/g/os

sssh

I have lubuntu riced to look a little like win95/98 (redmond theme)

Pretty comfy desu.

Nice syllogism! reddit is one of the largest sites on the Internet. Of course there will be stupid people; you should be well aware of this if you're browsing Sup Forums. Some communities are great (I'm not calling unixporn great, but it's good for inspiration; if you want a good community, go to homelab or something).

wtf im not going to read this
if u ever claim ur get inspired by unixporn again in mgoing to find u, smash ur computer on the floor and knock u out

Unity with Numix theme and icons looks bretty good.

I'm inspired by unixporn

unixporn inspires me

thats's it what states are you in