[ChuckMcM]

Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing but reminds me once again of how little respect developers have for spending resources like GPUs and instruction cycles for "bling" essentially.

I am always saddened a bit (as you can probably tell) that my desktop machine is easily 1000x more capable in terms of compute and rendering than my desktop in 1995 and yet is no more responsive, no quicker, no less of a burden on the underlying machine.

[ryan-allen]

> Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop.

That's exactly what I wanted! I've been using Manjaro KDE for a couple of months now exclusively.

I am extremely happy, it's very convenient developing on Linux directly!

It's much snappier than Windows 10 on the same hardware, and you can turn lots of the bling off to get better performance.

[Kaze404]

I don't mean to sound snarky, but you can also just not install a DE? Window managers like i3 and Awesomewm don't use the GPU at all.

[ChuckMcM]

FWIW I don't consider it snarky, I don't use KDE. Used TWM for a long time and lately LXDE for when I want something more desktop like. But I'm also a kind of weird case in that I want to be able to run X11 apps on my laptop, which is a win10 install, so running a local X server (VcXsrv).

I find LXDE as a DE fairly lightweight and not too troublesome. The Qt version had some issues with my older X server (Qt for some software defined radio apps that use Qt rather than Gtk or other toolkits).