Don't tell them about tiling WMs.
4 0 ReplyI would reccomend Sway, you can easily theme it to be retro style
3 0 ReplyListen.. Trinity Desktop Environment, Q4OS. Perhaps with some of the XPQ4 themes (NT/XP/7/8/10).
1 0 Replyxfce is the BEST DE
10 0 ReplyAnd combined with Xmonad is superb
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In defense of xfce, it was my main DE for a few years and you can make it look pretty cool with a few CSS rules.
76 0 ReplyPlease tell me you can share that amazing wallpaper.
36 0 ReplyXFCE has convinced me to switch to Linux. Xubuntu has a nice elementaryOS-like theme by default and apps from the DE are extremely fast.
I really don't understand the hate it gets. Maybe because the defaults aren't that good?
10 0 ReplyIt doesn't have so many essential modern features, kde has hdr, proper fractional scaling, mixed refresh rate displays and is much more secure thanks to wayland, plus the performance hit is tiny these days.
8 0 ReplyWho is hating Xfce? Besides the “lightweight” DE crowd.
The project doesn’t have a lot resources, so it’s behind on things. They do great work for what they have though.
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Wait, you can spruce it up? I've been running it stock for a year now. The design grew on me because it was installed on all the old desktops in my highschool, and I've had it on my laptop ever since.
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I unironically do hate modern UI. I'd love to be able to like windows 98-ify my OS.
14 0 ReplyDon't let your dreams be dreams! Just add XFCE :)
6 0 ReplyOh my god.... Thank you. So much.
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Same here, I always got flak for disabling that transparent shit in vista and onwards, I want to work.
Today I'm a serene Linux Mint user "BTW".
7 0 ReplyDidn't those transparent bars come with a massive performance hit? I didn't know anyone who kept it enabled.
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Touchscreen optimized UI sucks when using a mouse and often preforms worse with screen reader navigation.
15 0 ReplyBased and liking what you like pilled
20 0 ReplyIt's missing some stuff.
49 0 ReplyPixels.
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u can very easily theme plasma to be retro so im not sure why it an gnome are included meow.
post kinda smells of 4chan
33 0 ReplyAny examples of those themes?
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POV good design
17 0 ReplyIs LXQT or LXDE too modern for them?
5 0 ReplyAverage ReactOS user (if there are any)
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