Why does no one mention that you can install alternative DEs

Because they all look like they where made by edgy teens.

bblean was pretty cool last time I tried it

Dumb phoneposter

>>55847031

phoneposted*

>>55846989
That's not true, and even if it was it doesn't mean they don't exist.

>>55846677
Customization does not only entail aesthetic ricing.

>>55846677
Because literally almost all of them have been abandoned by the developers.

The only ones still being maintained are the niche ones like the one designed for a car.

>>55846677
So I can install whatever "shell" I want from a command line right?

>>55846677
>Isn't one of the main reasons Linux gets promoted here so much the availability of choice and desktops and shit?
Full retard

>>55847404
Idk man, if he learnt about Linux from /g/...

>>55846677
Is this the new desktop thread?

>>55846677
Most of them look like shit, or are broken, or require Aero to be turned off (which introduces screen tearing).

>>55846677
IF IT'S NOT KDE, XFCE, MATE, CINNAMON, OR LXDE IT CAN GO FUCK ITSELF. SAME TO YOU OP.

>>55846989
>>55847331
>>55847404
>>55847414
>>55847474
Also these.

>>55847916
>premade DEs
>not a WM like OpenBox

>>55847922
>use the OpenBox meme
>spend hours ricing
>still looks like shit
>still doesn't have great built in features like KDE connect
Piss off.

Windows doesn't need 16 DE's because the one it comes with as default works well enough for hundreds of millions of users.

If you use a hacked up and bastardised server OS using 1980's era design being worked on by people with severe mental health issues than obviously it's going to be fucked up and you'll need all the DE's GNU/Linux has.

>>55846989
This. They are all so so 2002.

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>>55847948
>>55847916

>>55848111
Why does my thought go immediately to loss?

>>55848204
>tfw you haven't been able to go back to /v/ for 3 years now

what happened to this place? I know everyone says it was always bad, but it seems so much worse now.

>>55848088
>2002
I miss that era of design for PCs...

>>55848288
Pre-Vista era was the best when it came to software and OS design.

Everything nowadays tries to look so minimalist, modern and "professional".