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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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[–] TuckFrump@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Logos and soft branding are important for my aesthetic pleasure so I like Fedora GNOME with Papirus icons and Oxygen Blue cursors. Manjaro GNOME, similarly set up, would be my second choice.

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[–] agelord@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mint with Papirus icons and blue accent colour set to match the folder icons of Papirus theme.

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I like the look of tiling wms with a top bar. Hyprland looks especially nice with rounded corners and color gradients. Too bad it's not stable enough to be my daily driver at the moment.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I like the default look of Nitrux

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Elementary has some very clean sober themes. I fell in the tilling windows craze and ricing so I'm sporting an Arch (I use it btw) with AwesomeWM, so very minimalistic.

[–] jjhanger@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Debian with the Awesome WM. I'm biased because that's what I use.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

elementary! It’s macish, but I still think pantheon is my favorite DE

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[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Deepin looks great, I wouldn't use it but it looks great.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Right, looks great BUT... It's a shit

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[–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I like simple default, so it is easier to customize. But If I have to keep the default I would say Garuda.

[–] liquidapricity@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Nitrux looks pretty nice

[–] ADandHD@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Manjaro Sway

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's dead now, but Apricity was the first distro I really enjoyed the look of. Now I know better than to care about out of box appearance.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Out of the box experience is valuable though. No every user wants to tinker for an afternoon to make a system suit their needs. Some want to install and go, nothing wrong with that.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Out of box experience is a personal preference. It always has been. Every person expects something different so I don't really care about it anymore.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 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.

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