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It's in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.

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[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's dead now, but Apricity was the first distro I really enjoyed the look of. Now I know better than to care about out of box appearance.

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[–] potkulautapaprika@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

Weird way to misspell desktop environment. Or wm defaults. A gnome reskin isn't a distro.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Anything with GNOME is visually appealing but unfortunately the usability is pure garbage. KDE is the exact opposite and Xfce is quick but sits on an awkward place.

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