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!

  • @jsgohac
    4•4 years ago

    Have you looked at Elementary OS? It bills itself as “The fast, open, and privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS”

    I’m not a huge fan of the idea of using a mass market UX on linux, but it has been around a while and seems to do a good job of it.

    here is the first random comment I found on reddits sub:

    I have been using for a long time and I super like the Os. I am mostly using Elementary for developing web sites etc. It works smooth and it is so basic system. So, no one needs to be tech savvy to be able to use Elementary. God bless the developers who created that. :) My pc is a laptop and it has i5 2 core processor + 10gb ram + intel hd 4400.

    • @_azadakOP
      4•4 years ago

      elementary is a step in the right direction, and I liked elementary OS. but since it is based on Ubuntu LTS, packages tend to be outdated. their DE, named Pantheon, is heavily tied to the distro, and I think pantheon in AUR is not so usable.