I want to learn Linux/GNU etc but there is something I don't

Because the desktop thread doesn't represent the majority of linux users. Are you stupid?

>>45693005
NEET ricers on /g/ != Linux users

Selection bias. Most desktop thread posters are ricers, because why would you post an unriced desktop?

>>45693031
This. We are mostly normal people, however, naturally the people who act this way are also the ones who show off the most.

>>45693005
like everyone else said, dont confuse the small minority of people on /g/ who post in desktop threads to look cool with the actual desktops. its just a clique on /g/ and a lot of people here want to be part of it. almost all modern distros can be customized however you want, you dont have to install gentoo or dumbass arch to do stuff like that

>>45693005
Your idea of simple and elegant differs from other people.

For power users, simple and elegant is using cli for batch jobs and gui for special tasks

For noobs, simple and elegant is clicking an icon on a desktop, copy and pasying by hand etc.

Wait, you call this desktop simple?

I don't think you quite understand simplicity.
Familiarity, which is the word you're looking for, isn't not the same as simplicity.

Dekstop threads are only for show offs that don't even use linux for a reason other than feeling special.
Just adjust your distro the way YOU want it. Start easy with mint or manjaro

>>45693005
That's because people who have working desktops don't usually post pictures. It's the ricers with their shitty i3 and awesome window managers that spam /g/

>>45693811
No one uses an OS just for showing off besides some deeply disturbed people.
Don't suggest Manjaro, it's malicious.

>>45693850
What's wrong with manjaro?

>>45693870
They use a stolen logo.

>>45693877
:OOOOOOO

>>45693838
I use i3 and I prefer functionality over being a ricefaggot.

>>45693005
I really like this desktop. It's a pleasant composition of colours that create a welcoming feeling of user-friendlyness. 10/10 I would install a distro advertising something like that as their default config.

>>45693005
What DE/Skin is this?

>>45694566
it's all in the terminal

>>45693870
They do something other distros do a hell of a lot better, and pretty much lose the benefit of running an arch-based system in the first place.

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r8 pls

>>45694829
What would you recommend?

>>45694864
its fucking nothing. Just like any other normie desktop

>>45693893
>tiling wm
>functionality
ayy

>>45694895
An Ubuntu flavor, or if you absolutely must run Pacman, Chakra.

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I've been intentionally trying to keep mine simple. I used to rice with Awesome and terminal based music players, conky at other times, custom color schemes. Now I'm doing this and my productivity has boosted a low.

>>45694919
>ubuntu
Stopped reading there

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>>45693005
>Simple and elegant
>When there's another option

>>45695012
>2014
>being a retarded Archfag

>>45694905
It does more than just tile.

>>45695052
>muh unity

>>45693005
Terry Davis is that you bro?

>>45695094
>All Ubuntu installs use Unity
>this is what gentards believe
See >>45695023 for Ubuntu with K, aka Kubuntu

awesome with lubuntu, setup look me 10 minutes, zero issues. Feels so right.

Oh no 300 more packages then minimal, lawd help me, the bloat!

>>45694829
>lose the benefit of running an arch-based system in the first place
>benefit of running an arch-based system
>benefit of running arch

>>45693005
As everyone already said, I thinks is just personal preference.
some people like using a goey with all the options and things they want. others don't and prefer a minimal wm with keybinds to the thing they use the most.

>>45695252
>this post
kek

>>45693005
>Why do people go out of their way to make Linux look so complicated and useless?
Because you've got nothing to do with a Linux Machine if you don't rice it with pure Autism, unless you do something productive with it, thats when you got no Time to rice anything.. But hey, this is /g/, most don't even know basicstuff