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It's in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Current distributions, I like EndeavourOS sway edition and Window Maker Live (wmlive).

Historically, I liked HP-UX and OpenSolaris with Gnome and the Nimbus theme. Linux Mint Darnya was nice. So was OpenSUSE 9.3 I think with Gnome and its custom launcher. Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Scientific Linux 6 was nice looking. We went a couple of years without CentOS so everyone used SL6.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Weird way to misspell desktop environment. Or wm defaults. A gnome reskin isn't a distro.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Anything with GNOME is visually appealing but unfortunately the usability is pure garbage. KDE is the exact opposite and Xfce is quick but sits on an awkward place.

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