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Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool.

Which current distro has the best GUI, in your opinion? I find modern Ubuntu to feel a little basic and cheap. I guess I don't really like modern Gnome. I'm currently using Windows 10 LTSC which is probably the best possible version of Windows, but I'd jump to linux if I could find a distro with a gui that feels at least as polished and feature rich as Windows 10 LTSC.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, i will have to give Hyprland a try! i was using Sway for a while, until i switched to gnome, and then KDE, because of growing pains with screensharing (which might be fully gone by now, i should give it another try)

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

Screen sharing pains aren't completely gone in Sway, unfortunately. I can usually share my entire screen successfully, on a handful of programs at least, but that isn't super helpful since I have an ultrawide screen. The other party can never really see anything clearly. Hyprland supposedly does have window sharing in addition to full screen sharing though, so that's huge.

But yea even just a few days ago I tried to shift + video call in Element for a screen share in Sway and Element just crashed, had to hop on i3 for that.