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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:10:04 -0000 (UTC)
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 06:12 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 4 Mar 2025 21:07:17 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
><m2p8c5Fi079U5@mid.individual.net>:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:11:55 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>> 
>>> I think UI customizations are (for the most part) more important to new
>>> Linux users who are experimenting. For someone like me, I just want the
>>> UI to look and work pretty much the way it did the last release or
>>> three releases earlier. (Small changes don't take too long to get used
>>> to. I may be in the minority here, I don't know.
>> 
>> Some of the subreddits like r/Fedora often have posts 'look at the
>> beautiful desktop I made'.  Yawn.
>
> Some people are interested in aesthetics, some people aren't.
>
> Some like chocolate ice cream, some like vanilla.
>
> Some people like to work in a park -- and some in
> a post-industrial cyber dystopia.
>
> Personally, I've been using xfce4 for years, and I have it
> set up the way I like.  I _also_ have Cairo dock running, but
> I hardly use it -- just interested in how stable it is, because
> that's what I've got set up for Mrs. vallor.
>
> For me, Linux desktop porn is fun to look at, but I tend to keep
> things functional first.
>
> https://imgur.com/rsq4O0K


I'm somewhere in-between, I use a basic xfce4 setup but a ton of self
drawn desktop icons and a custom background. Also conky and some static
always-on-top images for fun.
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