Comment by hpaavola | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hpaavola | Hacker News Reader

I hate all these "most beatiful Linux desktop" things. They all suck. Let's look at this pic: https://ubuntudde.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UbuntuDDE-D... It showcases the desktop of the "most beautiful desktop environment".

Either it does not come with a browser installed, or the browser is not added to that launch bar or they changed the browser icon but not the email client icon.

As the email client icon highlights, that icon theming does not make anything more beautiful because a lot of applications do not have an icon which would fit into the theme.

Network adapter selection, charging status and other things which most are not constantly interested in are in the middle of the most important UI element. Put those somewhere so that those are not constantly in my way.

Power button is also right there in the most important UI element. I don't know how others use their machines, but I'm not constantly pressing the power button of my computer. Put it somewhere where other unimportant things belong. And how does a power button, some number thingy and trash can belong to the same area?

Nothing makes sense. Default gnome and KDE are more beautiful and work better. Here's the default Ubuntu desktop https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202... Browser icon looks like browser icon. Icons are beautiful as their original designer intended. System settings related things like network, battery and power thingies are moved away from the importan things.

Well, now that you bring up Ubuntu, I wonder if anyone else out there dislikes its purple & orange color scheme. It might technically be a selection of compatible colors, but to me it's always looked ugly.

I like it a lot. They're compatible and they're warm which makes for a much nicer environment when you look at it for hours.

The cool and elegant design is impressive at first but gets tiresome usually.

I always disliked orange. Not sure if it's because all those old school books in the 70's that used black and orange for the only colors. But that is the associations I get from orange. Old school books.

Maybe that says more about the books you read or were given to read than about the color orange

I also dislike Ubuntus default background images so I use my own. There really isn't anything purple in Ubuntu default theme other than the background image.

I agree. To me it feels too saturated and too dark. Oh well, to each their own.

If you add a desktop background it will use the colors from the image. Or you can customize the colors...

Gnome and KDE are indeed more beautiful.

Indeed.. I have been a Ubuntu user for some time, but have recently switched to KDE due to the latest Ubuntu desktop experiments which really put me off. After installing KDE Plasma, which I thought was a single DE, I was surprised to learn that, on the login page, I can actually select different DEs, like Cinnamon, Plasma, Ubuntu, Unity, Wayland... that's really amazing! I have played around with Plasma and Cinnamon, and decided to stick with Cinnamon (after tweaking it with the dark theme, it looks awesome). So happy to have many choices though.

I wonder why people still feel the need to come up with more DEs instead of contributing to the plenty of existing ones...

> like Cinnamon, Plasma, Ubuntu, Unity, Wayland...

Wayland is not a DE though.

I don't know what Wayland is, but it is in the drop-down list.

Personally, I like Ubuntu Mate. But hey, I just want functional with a ui that doesn't hide nice things like open terminal here, and the address bar, etc.

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