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

if only someone could ship a properly themed linux.

>>57289464
If only you had the brain capacity to download a theme.

>>57289458
>gnome

>>57289492
>download a "theme"

>>57289458

>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?

>>57289698
kek

>>57289713

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

>>57289458
pic not related

>>57289458
>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.

>>57289745
pic very related IMO

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uhh no

>>57289492
>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.

>>57289458
>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 /g/

>>57289849
>>57289873
you're both making it extremely obvious that you've never used linux.

give it a rest op your desktop sucks

>>57289891
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.

>>57289904
it's only because DOS was made first. literally the only reason.

>>57289919
your commitment would be inspiring if it wasn't commitment to a delusion.

>>57289849
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.

>>57289923
wow, spewing bullshit as usual. it is literally impossible to argue with you people without wanting to blow your brains out. yes, really.

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>not using the latest Windows OS

>>57289458
Linux is a kernel, retard.

>>57289904
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

>>57289955
w-what theme a-are (you) using?

>>57289979
Arc, Anon

>>57289939
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.

>>57289951
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.

>>57289988
>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.

>>57289997
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.

>>57289985
t-thanks senpai

>>57290005
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

>>57289988
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.

>>57290034
>Not an argument
it wasn't. i was agreeing with you.

>>57290035
>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.

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>>57289827
it's a sad week to be a Mac OS user

>>57289955
Nice botnet

>>57290005
tbqh anon 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.

>>57289997
Gnome has basically no easy adjustability. The control is like 5 things.

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is this the new desktop thread?

arc is pretty comfy

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>>57290255
>fedora

>>57290255

>RAM: 494Mib / 1912MiB

alright you convinced me to put linux on my old laptop

looks good btw

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>>57290414
thanks anon

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

>>57289464
I think Solus looks pretty good. Budgie is a nice looking DE.

>>57289464

>download a theme

b-but the fun part is to pick the colorscheme anon-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-

>>57290537
>tfw not creative enough to make a good looking color scheme

>>57290414
>he fell for Linux is lightweight meme
I can't do shit with 64 MB machine

>>57290564
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

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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.

>>57290621
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-

>>57290651
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.

>>57289464
manjaro can

>>57289955
> 3.8G mem used
jesus christ

>>57290575
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.

>>57289955
>two refresh/reload buttons
wtf

>>57289711
Numix with custom folder icons

>>57291463
aesthetics

>>57289458
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

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>>57289458
Agreed

>>57291790
you should check your font config

>>57289458
I just hope you're not trying to imply thats beautiful

>2004 icons
>2008 wallpaper
>PETA penguin faggot

Disgusting.

>>57291790
bv barosane

>>57289458
Those folder icons are ugly

>>57289458
>minimalist shit

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

>>57292029
Agree, while not strictly terrible, the icons and font look extremely dated.

>>57290360
>tfw you refuse to install it because of the name

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

>>57289458
What are those little folder and trash can images on top of your desktop with little text underneath them called?

>>57290077
So... Gnome then?
Why am I even saying that as a question? The answer is "yes".

>>57289458
>themed properly
Can't wait till that happens.

>>57292221
People from 13 years ago who couldn't anticipate some stupid second-tier meme on a formerly anime-related shitposting website.

>>57293600
that's a cute little twilight sparkle xDDDDDDD

>>57291463
lol never saw the one on the address bar

>>57293600
Twiggy!

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>>57290526

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.

>>57289849
You are seriously retarded.
Please try to use the brain that was given to you

>>57289458
how do you theme a kernel?

>>57289458
Last I heard a kernel doesn't even have a GUI so I'm not sure what you mean by "theme"

>>57290778
Memory is cheap.

>>57289458
So why don't you make your linux look beautiful?

>>57289458
If only it existed... (gnome looks like shit too)
>>57289827
on other hand, os x has just one theme, but it`s good

>>57289873
>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..).

>>57294814
kind of samey desu with you, senpai
>flat, boxy gui
>picture of some anime
>flowery gay background

>>57289464
elementaryOS

#57294838
absolutely awful post dont reply tome anymroe

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>>57294850

>>57289827
>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

>>57295308
>>>/lgbt/

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>>57295258
jealous

>>57290778
That's a lot to you?

>>57295366
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

>>57295383
>standart OS X desktop with a different wallpaper
Oh yeah I really am jealous, great job

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>>57289849
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.

>>57295621
>Linsux in charge of previews in file pickers

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>not sweetOS

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>>57295763
>Wintoddler not knowing what he's talking about
What a surprise

>>57296071
Nice, you moved to an entirely separate toolkit. Such a beautiful and consistent system

>>57289458
>gnome
it cant be beautiful. its designed to not be customizable so it looks almost same unless you modify the actual source code. just installing a theme does not make it look good

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Nice desktop thread faggot
Here's mine btw

>>57296095
>Nice, you moved to an entirely separate toolkit.
Your point being?

>>57296203
That Linux ain't the most beautiful desktop OS. It's a huge clusterfuck where you have to hack shit up just to get a somewhat usable desktop.

>>57290575
the linux kernel works fine even with 32mb ram (many openwrt routers have only 32mb and work just fine) its the gui applications that use lots of ram.

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>>57289458
it can be but you have to remove gnome first.

>Linux has a far smaller selection of software, is shit at playing video games, has worse performance with most hardware because of shit drivers, and is far less compatible with everything compared to Windows
>but it's prettier!

so Linux is the bitch OS?

Windows = strong heterosexual man
Linux = cute but weak cumdumpster
OSX = flaming homosexual numale

as an employer at a serious job company, which of these three would you hire?

>>57296308
And yet it runs the Internet, how weird.

>>57296214
>install KDE
>it works
>has thumbnails
Wow what a hack. Stay ignorant

>>57296372
wow it's a copy of windows, very impressive
yet firefox still uses gtk file chooser

>>57296423
>"Linux sucks because it's not like Windows!"
>make it look like Windows
>"Linux sucks because it's like Windows!"
Windows users

So beautiful yet so useless

>>57289849
>waah free stuff doesn't cater to me and match my razer keyboard
Fag

>>57289955
>Arc theme in Windows 10
Wow, very impressive. Are there tutorials online to achieve such a great result?

Can you stop bringing attention on Windows 10? Yeah, that's barely _decent_ after some basic ricing, but how is it related to Linux as a desktop OS?

Technology - making your desktop look nice enough to feel good about all the time you waste in front of your computer acting like you know more than just making your desktop look nice which is not even technology it's actually /fa/.

...can we move this thread now, janitors?

>>57297036
>>>/lgbt/

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>>57289458

It really does, and with Wayland its buttery smooth.
Running Fedora 25 beta here.

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Implying ChromeOS isn't the most beautiful OS...many lolz

>implying GNU/Linux doesn't look good out of the box
Stock XFCE or Gnome still looks miles ahead of winshit and their metro crap.

>>57297139
Why would anyone use it though?

>>57289458
Get rid of that fucking penguin mascot.

>>57297399
>implying this based, happy penguin isn't a great logo

>>57297399
>Happy penguin
or
>Four rectangles

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>>57296187
that looks nice. what font is that, and can you share colorscheme?

>>57289458
Thanks for the non-examplar of your theory.

>>57296308
>as an employer at a serious job company, which of these three would you hire?
well in this analogy, Linux literally works for free as in free beer while still doing anything you need, so...

>>57297076
too much padding

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Posting in the new desktop thread.

no bully pls

>>57299081
is that poop all over her butt and vag?

>>57299204
would you like that?

>>57298632
>he thinks that the cost of having to explain shit to the employee you hired is zero
hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah holy fuck i'm dying here

>>57298646

Just enough padding desu, I'm sick to death of autistic xfce setups where every single fucking UI element is mashed up against every other element with no room to breathe, it looks horrific.

>>57289458
>pic not related

>>57299081
nice pictures, I have 3 pictures saved on from /b/ that you have showed (1st, 3rd, 8th, I'm kinda into chubby [but now cow] girls).
;^)

>>57299250
Indeed

>>57299081
Why are only some of the previews showing?

>>57299441
kek you got me, what can I say I love them too.
>>57299442
sorry but no
>>57299449
too lewd for this board.

>>57299536
>too lewd for this board.
How do you control which ones show and which ones don't?

>>57290651
Is that an attempt to talk about mpd?

>>57299403
padding is wasted space. every pixel is needed on shitty 12" 1366x768 thinkpad screens.

>>57299553
I was jk. Thumbnails weren't generated for those images yet that's why.

>>57289464
fpbp

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>>57289458
lol sure

>>57299879
A rich cli interface doesn't need to change to stay beautiful.

>>57299587
You may change your laptop screen for $136, according to this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/3hjlbu/so_i_did_the_t420_fhd_ips_mod_and_its_glorious/ (found on Google)

>>57299739
>sudo pacman -S plasma
>????
>profit

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>ACTIVITIES INTENSIFIES

>>57299879
1/10, made me reply

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>>57295383
I just got promoted, thanks!!

>>57289827
What's that shell profile? Doesn't seem to be one of the dafault ones. Could you give me the colors etc.?

>>57289458
Where the hell is 'I made a webm of that png' guy when we need him?

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>>57300162
Not that guy but is this good enough?

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>>57299081

>>57300368
Can you post the full version of your background please?

>>57289849
What does this have to do with Linux devs? It's the distro in question that doesn't have a good default theme. Only thing the devs can do is make sure the app works well with both light and dark themes.

>>57300368
>>57300408
>3
Nevermind, found it

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Running mac osx, taskbar and sidebar written in js, html, css and displayed via übersicht

>>57300471
Mouse is hovering over firefox icon in this btw, it's usually white-transparent-ish like the others

>>57291790
mother fucker

>>57300471
>2016
>still using µtorrent

>>57300521
What do you recommend then?

>>57300566
Literally anything else
Transmission, qbittorrent, and rtorrent are all good from my experience

>>57300585
What's so bad about utorrent then?

>>57300621
It (at least used to) use your computer to mine bitcoin in the background
ads
and it's proprietary

>>57300621
It's owned by the MPAA. Even Tixati is better.

>>57292174
Arc-darker

>>57289827
How did you get that borderless terminal-window on mac?

>>57301313
iterm2 borderless
>>57300086
http://dotshare.it/dots/378/
prompt is:

PROMPT='%B%F{yellow}>> %f'
RPROMPT='%B%F{yellow}%~ %B%F{cyan}(｡>﹏<｡)'

>>57289689
problem?

>>57298632
>implying it's not piss easy to pirate windows
>implying anyone has ever gotten in any legal trouble for pirating windows