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by jokethrowaway 2075 days ago
While I agree with you, that's nothing a custom theme / engine can't fix. Fonts on linux are not that great as well, by default.

KDE is quite a useful Desktop Environment packed with functionality; I miss KDE a lot when using Mac OS X or Windows.
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konart 2075 days ago
>While I agree with you, that's nothing a custom theme / engine can't fix.

For many people this is a turn off rather than a great thing. I've been using Ubuntu and the Arch for many years before switching to macOS (OSX at the time).

Even now you have to compile and install a custom theming engine[1] in KDE to apple decent themes

[1] https://github.com/tsujan/Kvantum/tree/master/Kvantum

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eitland 2075 days ago
> For many people this is a turn off rather than a great thing. I've been using Ubuntu and the Arch for many years before switching to macOS (OSX at the time).

I don't follow: you point out an issue with KDE styling before saying you use MacOS that is even harder to style?

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anoncake 2075 days ago
Some people confuse being able to customize things and having to do so because the defaults are bad.
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konart 2074 days ago
No, my point is that you don't really have to style macOS. (at least for me and many other people it's nearly perfect)

While with KDE the first thing you want to do is to apple different style and then you learn you have to compile different styling engine to do so.

Obviously macOS is not the system you'd want to use if you can't stand its UI

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