Linux (themed properly) is the most beautiful desktop OS

Linux (themed properly) is the most beautiful desktop OS.

if only someone could ship a properly themed linux.

If only you had the brain capacity to download a theme.

>gnome

>download a "theme"

>even the clouds are broken in Linux

HAHAHAHAHA

What icon pack?

couldn't you do this in any OS that uses X?
what's a kernel have to do with it?

kek

Lincucks are selfish and always make it about them, even though other components in GNU/Linux are more indispensable.

pic not related

>tfw while windows users receives forced updates, forced telemetry, ads and not being able to disable certain "features" anymore we receive the hard work of a community with the best intentions.

pic very related IMO

uhh no

>hurr do it yourself
honestly is it too much to ask of open source developers to be competent at this one trivial thing? i don't want to install linux and feel that i have to go find a usable theme before i get to work. certainly i'll customize shit over time, but be usable out of the box.

this "hurr get a brain" response is why linux remains niche. because autists can't communicate to people that are willing to give linux a fair shot.

>Linux (themed properly) is the most beautiful desktop OS.
>>themed properly
ANY OS looks beautiful when themed properly.
You might as well say the most beautiful OS is the most beautiful as long as it has been properly beautified.

Looks like I'm on Sup Forums

you're both making it extremely obvious that you've never used linux.

give it a rest op your desktop sucks

okay dude, but when you reflect on why every year you guys insist that this will be the year of the linux desktop, please remember this conversation.

it's only because DOS was made first. literally the only reason.

your commitment would be inspiring if it wasn't commitment to a delusion.

You have to download themes for every single customizable thing ever. Otherwise you're stuck with stock design. It's not just Linux, it's true for just about everything. You're acting like downloading a theme is rocket science or something. Either stop being a lazy bitch and download it yourself or be happy with stock themes.

wow, spewing bullshit as usual. it is literally impossible to argue with you people without wanting to blow your brains out. yes, really.

>not using the latest Windows OS

Linux is a kernel, retard.

The year of the Linux desktop is a meme, every Linux user knows this, we post it as satire and we don't want normies making big corporations like Microsoft come in and ruin it by monopolizing that market the same way they do with proprietary software and dumbing down and mainstreaming our shit

w-what theme a-are (you) using?

Arc, user

the whole overarching point is that os x has a desktop environment that's usable out of the box. you can customize all sorts of shit but if you just want to get going there's surprisingly little that's unintuitive or unusable. linux distributions tend to have no sensible defaults, instead waiting for you to plug in your preferences with no graceful fallback.

i posted my opinion in good faith. someone else chimed in with a similar opinion. now you're just being pissed off. i don't even know what you hope to accomplish or prove. i'm telling you i've used linux and this is a microcosm of the shit that puts new users off. you can either take that feedback and do something constructive with it, or you can bitch about how DOS is the reason linux isn't more popular now.

if you've ever taken user feedback, you would know that the healthy route is to take the feedback and do something with it. maybe you'll decide that it's not worth changing anything. maybe you'll change everything. maybe you're not involved in linux development in the first place. but picking a fight with your user is the exact wrong thing to do.

>he has never heard of ubuntu, fedora, or mint
Those distros look like fucking Windows or Mac clones. Pretty standard stock UI's, and honestly an autistic 12 year old could configure them more to their liking.

they look like chinese knockoffs of better designed operating systems, yes.

chinese knockoffs look the same at first glance, but always fail to live up to the thing they're cloning or copying.

t-thanks senpai

Not an argument

You can keep stock if you like it or download another DE that you like more, which by the way is easy as fuck to do

Sounds to me that you're just bitching because people dare to use an OS that isn't your favorite

Manjaro looks just fine when you install it
The Gentoo livedvd looks great
Kubuntu? Beautiful
Mint looks just fine.
KDE and Gnome both look amazing by default.
Not sure what I'm missing here.
Since 2016, the aesthetic defaults for Linux have all been sane.

>Not an argument
it wasn't. i was agreeing with you.

>looks just fine
this is what linux users don't seem to understand.

design isn't about looking nice. that's aesthetic. design is making the system work in a way that conforms to a rich mental model that doesn't take a lot of time to grok.

all of your examples are well-riced linux distributions, with little to no usability testing as far as i can tell from the outside. this is especially salient with GIMP. go ask their dev community what resources they have for usability testing. for GOMS. for heuristic evaluation.

this shit doesn't just come together naturally. someone needs to evaluate usability. but nobody in open source projects seems to do that.

it's a sad week to be a Mac OS user

Nice botnet

tbqh user Linux distros tend to look better than Windows at least

Windows always looks clunky and convoluted, and their trademark UI (start menu, task bar) looks ugly and archaic. Zero originality or innovation there. OSX and Linux distros have been beating them for years.

Gnome has basically no easy adjustability. The control is like 5 things.

is this the new desktop thread?

arc is pretty comfy

>fedora

>RAM: 494Mib / 1912MiB

alright you convinced me to put linux on my old laptop

looks good btw

thanks user

if you're totally new to linux i'd recommend xubuntu, pretty windows-esque and light on resources

I think Solus looks pretty good. Budgie is a nice looking DE.

>download a theme

b-but the fun part is to pick the colorscheme user-kun...

the true beauty of gnulinux. . . .is that you actually can theme it yourself.

i don't like the styles of must 'pretty' gnulinuxes, honestly. or the bloat and stuff. im happy with my hand riced wm and thats what suits me. other people can do other things and thats them. on windows, everyone gets the same thing and you have to work hard to make it pretty.

gnulinux is what you make it. and thats why we love it.

-love-lain-

>tfw not creative enough to make a good looking color scheme

>he fell for Linux is lightweight meme
I can't do shit with 64 MB machine

LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN
but you don't even need a distro, all you need is a wallpaper and a file manager
navigating through right click context menu is better than moving the mouse all over the place
better yet, use the terminal

still find it funny that you neckbeards actually like Linux.
What's so good about it? It doesn't really do anything Windows doesn't already do.

ratpoison4lyfe my comrade

the keyboard is my waepon and with it I shall fear no evil. the rodent that once plauged my life and computer experiences is now tamed. used when it truly makes an operation convenient. mere clicking of a button is a task for keystrokes.

i do not judge others and their fancy guis, but I know and i feel it in my heart that this is the true way to compute. to live. to engage with the world. and from it i shall not cease

-love-lain-

exactly, you can do everything in both, thus there is no option to choose an alternative! Also, MacOS can do the same stuff, no reason to change. /s

Ergonomics matter, if you are using your machine to develop it pays off having an OS with good common utilities to compile, debug, edit & run. You have to choose your tools depending on your use case.

manjaro can

> 3.8G mem used
jesus christ

it's not about running linux on machine with little ram. It is about having ram acts as a "file system cache" that speedups the whole system, so you want live memory footprint low. Althought with SSD being popular that is not that important.

>two refresh/reload buttons
wtf

Numix with custom folder icons

aesthetics

How can a kernel be themed?

>using gnome
>using a shitty gtk theme
>using a shitty icon theme
>using a shitty wallpaper
>probably using a shitty mouse pointer theme, too

Agreed

you should check your font config

I just hope you're not trying to imply thats beautiful

>2004 icons
>2008 wallpaper
>PETA penguin faggot

Disgusting.

bv barosane

Those folder icons are ugly

>minimalist shit

someone recommend me a nice xfce dark theme that doesnt require me to "compile" anything

Agree, while not strictly terrible, the icons and font look extremely dated.

>tfw you refuse to install it because of the name

Who ever thought "Fedora" was a good name for an OS?

What are those little folder and trash can images on top of your desktop with little text underneath them called?

So... Gnome then?
Why am I even saying that as a question? The answer is "yes".

>themed properly
Can't wait till that happens.

not even close

People from 13 years ago who couldn't anticipate some stupid second-tier meme on a formerly anime-related shitposting website.

that's a cute little twilight sparkle xDDDDDDD

lol never saw the one on the address bar

Twiggy!

Yep. I can't use Solus because their Wine stuff isn't quite fleshed out yet, but I use Budgie on Antergos and it's gorgeous.

You are seriously retarded.
Please try to use the brain that was given to you

how do you theme a kernel?

Last I heard a kernel doesn't even have a GUI so I'm not sure what you mean by "theme"

Memory is cheap.

So why don't you make your linux look beautiful?

If only it existed... (gnome looks like shit too)
on other hand, os x has just one theme, but it`s good

>ANY OS looks beautiful when themed properly.
macOS is almost impossible to theme.
Windows is also much harder than Linux to theme and it uses the ANCIENT Windows API.
The Windows API is stuck with the same sizes and margins as Windows 95 + it cannot ever have hardware acceleration (no smooth animations, etc..).

...

kind of samey desu with you, senpai
>flat, boxy gui
>picture of some anime
>flowery gay background

elementaryOS

#57294838
absolutely awful post dont reply tome anymroe

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>Kuronekofag
>"look at my OS X desktop that literally looks like every other OS X desktop"
Gas yourself

I love getting fucked by big black cock

...

jealous

That's a lot to you?

This is my favorite board by the way. How many bad dragon dildos do you guys have? I have 31 but I'm going to buying some new ones soon

>standart OS X desktop with a different wallpaper
Oh yeah I really am jealous, great job

GNOME looks okay out of the box.
Linux is only worse at two things: Windows software compatibility and (subjectively) looking good.
Open source developers are more competent at EVERYTHING else.

>Linsux in charge of previews in file pickers

>not sweetOS

>Wintoddler not knowing what he's talking about
What a surprise