Thanks for reminding that part of my brain to bully the other parts into doing LFS.

You should look into window managers such as dwl if you want a truly minimalist experience.

And a lot of linux programs take inspiration from Microsoft’s design because they’re the norm. When you think of a word processor you think of Word, same goes for all of Office 365 actually.

I’ve recently switched from Gnome to KDE in preperation for Plasma 6. I’m definitely noticing some rough edges even on 5.27, so I’m highly looking forward to 6.00