I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn't want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.
I just shrugged and asked him if he'd have known if he hadn't been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.
I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I've had very few problems. I've used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it's been the least maintenance.
There's a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It's pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.
I do this, legitimately -- but with a very specific application: Firefox. On Windows, I can get firefox top border to a VERY small amount. But for some reason, in the past -- every Linux distro I found, when Firefox is maximized, I still get an additional window decoration on the top, above the browser tabs. My Firefox bar on Windows only takes up 64 pixels of height.
For those that like firefox drawing its titlebar instead of using the system one (I can those psychopaths) it's literally a right click on some part of the ui, customize and at bottom there's an option about which titlebar to use.
I mean, at least I CAN fix this stuff in Linux. Plenty of instances like this in Windows where I'd just be stuck. I really need the FreeCAD team to get their shit together before I can truly swap over.
I don’t like taskbar designs in general, I prefer the top bar with the menu bar integrated and I don’t like startmenu, that’s why I have fullscreen launcher set up, and well something like a dock that is hiding automatically is handy as well
And suddenly I have a macOS design without wanting to mimic it..
What is the core difference between windows design and standard KDE design if I may ask?
I agree, although I do like a MacOS-like dock, because when I was a kid using Gnome, I always loved the dock it came with by default. I'm a filthy casual though, so I can see why some don't like the docks.
I fucking love KDEs Windows 95 theming for some of the interface, while still looking sleek and fast as hell. That and the Plastik theme for the minimize, fullscreen, and exit buttons. :)
I always leaned into "Commercial Unix Workstation Circa 1993". I've considered CDE/NsCDE, but a lot of the pack-in software is of limited value, so I'm going for FVWM on the desktop and MWM on the laptop.
I should mod my big tower case to look like a brother of a HP 712.
That is actually what brought me back to Linux, I used to run Ubuntu and then Mint around 2010 but had to switch to Windows for work (and stuck around because it works well enough) but the taskbar being stuck on the bottom bothered me enough to finally make the switch back.
