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Most customizable desktop environment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What makes Linux appealing to me is the extent of customizability, but I didn't find many answers when looking up with desktop environment is them most customizable. Some say KDE is most customizable than say, Gnome, but doesn't Gnome support CSS customization while KDE doesn't?

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

KDE has the most options out of the box. You can make it look like Gnome, or act like a tiling window manager, or like Windows 7, 10 or 11, just with the options it contains from the start.
Gnome comes with almost no options. If you add extensions, or know enough to make your own, the sky is the limit. But I wouldn't call that "customizable", you can write your own themes for Plasma, too.
Xfce is another one that's very flexible. But it's very hard to get it to look and feel modern, it will always be an old school desktop, no matter what theming and added docks you throw at it.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uhm, XFCE literally looks like Android with a sidebar on my touchscreen-notebook.

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

Can you make a screenshot?

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

EndeavourOS's default XFCE theme looks very modern to me ! I mean sure it looks more like old school windows era, but that doesn't bother me at all. I like simplicity and customizability.

What's cool about XFCE, its only about config files to customize your whole DE.