Why oh Why can't we make Linux better looking

[Portreve]

Vis-à-vis Deepin, I am wary of anything coming out of certain sources, and China is one of them. I don't factually know there's bad things going on within that distro, but frankly I wouldn't be willing to take the chance.

I think Mac OS X 10.6 was the last one with an appealing (to me, at least) UI. I do not like any of the flat UIs out there, be they Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows, or any of the several GNU+Linux desktop environments' takes on the concept. As with this topic's OP, I think the default Cinnamon "Mint Y" icons are utilitarian at best and fugly at worst, which is why I change to the Mint X Aqua ones the moment I do an install of LM.

[MurphCID]

Mint 19.2 seems to be taking positive steps to making Linux look better. Next step Libre Office making their product look better.

[deanr72]

Good, clear clean crisp fonts with excellent anti-aliasing. Icons the same way, clear, crisp, well defined. Flat is ok, but boring, I like skewmorphic icons to some extent. But my number one priortity is clean, clear, crisp looking.

Thank you, now I have a much clearer idea of what you mean. I had to look up skeuomorphic, I found this article that explains it well: https://en.99designs.nl/blog/trends/ske ... al-design/

Fascinating reading. Thanks for the link.

[rick gen]

Neptune (6) 's graphics look well thought out.

Neptune 6 Linux on distrowatch.com

https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10637

https://neptuneos.com/en/


Only issue for me was my VPN (PIA) is not able to connect.

[deanr72]

Neptune (6) 's graphics look well thought out.

Neptune 6 Linux on distrowatch.com

https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10637

https://neptuneos.com/en/


Only issue for me was my VPN (PIA) is not able to connect.

Neptune 6 is stunning. I'm now running this as my back-up. A KDE distro based on Debian 10 with more up-to-date apps, kernels and drivers - what's not to like?