miguel

IMO, it’s all about giving the user control. KDE’s transparency/translucency controls are the bare minimum. Apple hates giving users choices, though, so I hope they do ok for those folks.

I am definitely older (my first programming job involved a mac plus) and personally, I can’t stand the flat look era.

I say this to be fair, since I’ve used Debian since almost the very beginning: Debian is a bit more complicated to set up.

I generally find when people ask me for help, they’re either on Ubuntu or on Fedora (in which case I direct them to someone else for help). Sometimes they’re gamers or using something where Debian + tweaks is ideal, but often I just help them configure Debian, or just help them get their Ubuntu where they want it.

I don’t know, this was for a system on kubuntu 24.04, the latest up there. I removed it, replaced it with debian and kde - my friend isn’t a gamer, doesn’t require anything bleeding edge, so that was just a better choice in our opinion.

Only tangentially related - but a friend brought over a new kubuntu install and Canonical had the cheek to demand money for VLC patches? They don’t fing own VLC. What the actual f is going on over there, Canonical?

I just recently de-snapped yet another ubuntu system. Couldn’t agree more. I use debian standard for all of my stuff, and I agree with your ranking.