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Linux is never beautiful IMO. There are so few packages out there that actually have good UI/UX design that you could put whatever DE you want on a distro and it will still be ugly.

Whenever I use Linux I pretty much always end up right back at running Openbox because it ends up being one less thing to get in the way.

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Check out KDE Neon. It is beautiful (unless you are as sensitive to alignment or typeface issues as I am to lagging ;-)

I don't like KDE because I like my UI components to have padding and not look like this: https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/kde-plasma-5-16-...

My argument is that you can choose any desktop environment you want with the most well designed window decorations, but as long as you have most packages built on GTK+ or Qt by people that aren't UI/UX experts, your system is going to be ugly.

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