I disagree (a bit at least).

Debian is just as prone to breaking due to the lack of fallbacks (e.g. Snapper), it just doesn’t break as often because it doesn’t change as much as Arch.
If you use a minimal/ default install, this won’t happen as easily, but as soon as you customise anything, you get problems.
Arch can be reliable too, there are many people who have had the same install for years without breaking.

I would actually recommend Fedora Atomic or other image based distros, e.g. VanillaOS.
They can be more modern, while being way more reliable thanks to atomic updates/ transactions, complete image rollbacks and the reproducibility.
They are a dream to use imo!

You can still install Nix (package manager) on Atomic, on uBlue, it even comes pre-installed afaik.

And also, there’s Distrobox, which is totally enough if you prefer package managers over Flatpaks.
I personally like the “reliance” on Flatpaks. I think it reduces the fragmentation and makes it easier for devs, but that’s just my opinion. Do as you prefer.

I don’t like apt too as much. But, interface-wise, you can make it way better with Nala, which is a frontend for it.

NixOS is too complicated and demanding for most users, who aren’t programmers or hobbyists, imo.
I prefer Fedora Atomic. It has the same pros (unbreakable, highly configurable with universal-blue.org, etc.) but feels way more user friendly.
I use it with Distrobox on top, so I can use my package manager/ distro of choice (turned out to be Arch btw) on a extremely reliable system.

For your case, you can replicate Mint by just installing the Cinnamon image from uBlue and applying some minimal tweaks.
Then you get the user friendliness from Mint with the flexibility and unbreakability from NixOS. Do you like the idea? Just in case you get annoyed by NixOS in the future 🙃

Do you use it on the stock ROM or on GrapheneOS/ another system?
GrapheneOS for example applies some “app optimisations” after system updates, and because of that, Kvaesitso gets some performance issues, namely extreme stuttering.

When reinstall the app or delete some data, it works again. Did you try that?

Sure, here!
If you notice any quality loss due to the upload, just tell me, and I can share it to you in full quality, or upload an album.

Definitely! The only “good” 3rd-party themes are the ones from Jomada (Edna, Moe, Itchy, etc.) and from Vinceliuice (Graphite, Canta, Layan, etc.).
Those are well thought out, coherent and look professional.

If you scroll through the top ones, then you almost exclusively find ones that got their last update years ago, and now look extremely incoherent or buggy.
And even if you find newer ones, then they often lack the polish.
Man, it just sucks…

But hey, maybe there is just not that much demand anymore, because the defaults look great nowadays?

It is in fact part of the launcher. You can change it in the settings of the homescreen and decide between a digital or a round version.

Thanks! I’ll do that too, thanks for the suggestion!

I sadly, and I don’t say this lightly, have to agree.
When first using KDE, I was totally baffled by the amount of themes you can download.

But I quickly learned, that most of them are either more than 5 years old, look ugly/ incoherent, or cause this blurriness issue OP mentioned.

For my taste, Breeze (or to a further extend, Lightly) looks phenomenal by default, especially since Plasma 6. I only change the color scheme a bit (usually just adaptive colors, based on wallpaper), but that’s it.

Thanks for sharing your view point, makes sense. Totally understandable!

Sadly, I’m nowhere qualified/ capable enough to host a reasonable website, let alone one that collects content like I imagine it to be.

Exactly that is my point. By applying stricter rules to posting, including tagging, we could create exact that database.

I use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest for decorating their home, not only to see cool setups. I personally think that my use case is also valid and not that rare.
If people already make the effort to post, why not make that more searchable and give others like myself the ability to filter?

Understandable.

I personally often use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest when they want to get inspired for decorating their room.
I really can’t deny the accusation that this community is responsible for “some” of my DE-hops 😅

I downvoted the post here, because I think it doesn’t belong into Linuxmemes.
But even though I disagree in some way, I upvoted the original post in c/Linux, because I think you spent quite some time writing it. I’ll discuss my thoughts with you in the other thread ✌️

I really like that post!

It seems like OP put a lot of work and creativity into the meme, while intelligently criticizing a problem and not just using “Windows bad hurr hurr” as the base.

I wanna see more of those kind!

In what regards? Maybe just wait a few weeks until the majority of bugs and problems are ironed out.

I’m not missing anything, they are great. I always found the separation of desktop oberview and window overview a bit weird, and now, with the newest release, they got merged as one thing with one coherent trackpad gesture, which I love.

It still has the same vibes and is the same KDE we love or hate, just better.

It definitely feels way more polished and now has some MacOS vibes to be fair.
Not as minimalist as Gnome, but the insane amount of features got “hidden” a bit user friendlier. I think that if you apply some icon themes and a top bar + dock, it will be indistinguishable from MacOS for many casual users.

Sadly, they still aren’t, but at least, the overview and grid view are now combined, just like on Gnome.
Before, they were decoupled and unintuitive, and now, they got a rework.

Read my post if you want to know more: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

You can build your own image easily using uBlue.
You change the system from top to bottom, not bottom to bottom like on traditional distros. Read my post if you want to know more: https://feddit.de/post/8234416