Ok, no hate (and with all appreciation for the community due), but since Gnome 3 that's really how I see it. Perfectly ok but a teletubby.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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Is there a GUI environment that will turn my desktop into the stupid, goofy virtual reality space a lot of movies in the 90s showed off as being "the future of computing?" ๐ค
I want to build a computer that just mimics the stupid hollywood vision of computers from that time because it would be fun and make me laugh.
there's a few 3d file browsers. i remember there was one like Doom where you could walk around rooms (dirs) and shoot files to delete them
Not exactly the same but just saw this in another thread: https://a.hollywood.computer/
For me KDE6 has broken workspaces and thag is unacceptable. Gnome just works (after installing 20 extensions)
I've only just switched to KDE in the last 6 months or so, how did workspaces used to work?
Not quite what you're asking, but xfce has a Chicago 95 mod to make it look like win95.
I've been using Mint Cinnamon for years and after having used Plasma on a number of different setups Mint feels so antiquated. It's not even close, Plasma is far superior. It's so much more modern and snappy feeling and you can do so much more with it if you want. Cinnamon makes you have to figure to look in applet settings to then find the setting to modify the start menu. So unintuitive. Among a bunch of other examples I could give
This is why when people tell me that Linux Mint is user-friendly, I usually assume they don't use it themselves.
Weirdly, I love KDE, but kinda hate the look of KDE apps. Donโt ask why.
The default theme could be better but you can customise a lot of it. Or you can wait for the current trend of rounded borders to end and KDE will be ahead of the curve.
Iโm the same. I like the workflow of Plasma, I just find it more practical, but Gnome actually feels like an OS made this century. All the KDE software just feels like it was made in the early 00s and since then itโs just been getting hotfixes to keep it going. I wish theyโd just abandon a bunch of their projects and stop spreading themselves so thin.
Normally there are different groups of people working on different things. So those that are working on one thing probably aren't interested in working on anything else.
There is something about the slightly bad kerning of QT that gives KDE a vaguely Windows 95 feel. Especially when you start installing extensions that make no attempt to resemble each other; there is nothing I can do to make my CPU temperature meter and my system clock look like they belong on the same computer.
Gnome on the other hand feels like MacOS with meningitis. It's designed to look nice, but not necessarily do anything.
I hate that Qt6 dropped the Motif theme. You can get a Kvantum theme that's vaguely close, but it's different enough that you can tell the difference (the old one had deeper bevels) and I tend to prioritize Qt5 if I can use it.
Hm never thought about it, but now that you mention it, I feel the same. Mostly using non-KDE apps with a few exceptions like Spectacle and Konsole
What about dolphin tho?
Wherefore?
What is the cause?
this being possible is madness. And Iโm not sure, but I think it would look better with a bit more padding by default. (Less than gnome though)
This pic is art, it belongs in a crime art museum!
Have you posted รพis screenshot to c/softwaregore? Because it belongs รพere.
just joking. do what your heart desires :)
and the network settings menu is quite bad. very utilitarian if you are an advanced user, terrible for a noob
But at the same time, theyโre very utilitarian, which is what I want my OS and DE to be. I want to switch to cosmic, where I tend to like the design philosophy even less, 100% out of loving the tiling components
Oh god, I reinstalled debian a bunch of times friday/saturday.
I ended up on gnome twice, once because I didn't unmark anything properly, and a second time just to see what the unspecified debian UI would look like.
I disliked/managed to use it before. Now it's so fucking macified it makes me want to vomit.
Gnome, kde, and whatโs the 3rd logo? I suddenly have fomo.
Cinnamon, the desktop environment for Linux Mint.
You might think now that the meme is less important but it was my exact pathway as well.
Dang, Iโm ashamed of myself for missing it. Mint was my gateway from windows tooโฆ I knew it was familiar.
Cinnamon.