Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-11, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:04:44 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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This is why you should consider the attitudes of the developers and
their philosophy.  If you decide to go with software maintained and
developed by those who have a "move fast and break things" kind of
attitude, you will have to accept, that things will move fast... and
break.  If the developers are opinionated, and have a "vision", then you
are going to have to accept that they will impose their vision, and your
experience will be as they think it should be.

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/love-it-or-hate-it-apples-new-liquid-
glass-design-is-getting-mixed-reviews/
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This is the latest example of a vision that isn't universally loved. Being
Apple, the users can suck it up.

I did for a bit, use some theme for KDE called Liquid I think which had
a glass bead look.  The Apple liquid glass is hard to read in places,
impressive in others, but otherwise, just a fad that will look "dated"
eventually.

But now, I'm wiser, and all that "aesthetics" is just wankery.  My
current desktop looks straight from the 90s, the only thing that gives
away that its not from 1999 is the higher resolution.  Everything will
look dated eventually, so may as well stay with something already dated,
than constantly change the next thing that will end up dated anyway.