I admire Linux kernel, but not satisfied with most DE’s. Currently, I am settled with Budgie on Manjaro. KDE is powerful, but has unsuitable defaults and should have been named Tinker Desktop Environment. OOTH, I feel Windows is more open and customizable than Gnome is.
Xfce and LXQt are great but need serious modernization. The whole Linux GUI world needs modernization and beautification. So, right now, Budgie DE seems like the best of all worlds to me.
Considering Budgie is planning to adopt Qt and that the ex-Solus dev is spearheading in creating a “Modern” distro called Serpent OS, I am truly looking forward to a QtBudgie experience on Serpent OS.
Just a bit of thought as my first post on lemmy!
The guy who is working on Serpent is kinda a fraud tbh, and the best part about xfce is the customization you have, and what you can make it into. If I were you I’d try a WM.
Yeah, he just left Solus behind without even enabling other people to take over after him, and I think the donations that the project had gotten were also on one of his personal accounts, inaccessible to the other distro members (I don’t know, if by now he’s given the money to them).
Now he’s apparently stopped being burned out from distro making, but instead of returning to Solus, he’s marketing a new distro, as if it’s going to be the best thing since sliced bread.
Claiming that it’s “modern”, because it doesn’t do all kinds of things that other distros do. Which is exactly the same thing that all those other hundreds of distros are doing, which don’t have the resources of the big distros.
I don’t like this marketing. If you’re open-source, you should convince by being good, even if it’s for a very specific use-case. Not by deceiving users that this distro is somehow better than others even though you really have nothing to show.
But what I especially dislike about his plans, is that I don’t see a significant difference to Solus. He didn’t have a sudden strike of genius for which he needs to build a new distro.
At best, he just wants to build a new project, because he’s bored of the old one and you should expect him to abandon this project, too. At worst, he’s just trying to make money from donations of people that are excited for his new project.
oops! that’s discouraging. unix and fraud should not exist together!