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Most customizable desktop environment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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What makes Linux appealing to me is the extent of customizability, but I didn't find many answers when looking up with desktop environment is them most customizable. Some say KDE is most customizable than say, Gnome, but doesn't Gnome support CSS customization while KDE doesn't?

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Nothing is stopping you from making a terminal with a very niche command running on the background 24/7 and call that a "window bar" btw, so.... as long as its a minimal installation, "they sky is the limit". :^)

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dwm is a really customizable window manager. You just need to know C and write everything yourself!

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

The most customizable DE will always be "any WM" 😄

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In terms of DEs nothing comes close to KDE.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last I saw deepIn wasn't far off. But it's always been a similar project to KDE in many ways. (QT based, complete ecosystem including desktop and apps) Though they have had some rather staggering refactors between versions.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago

Deepin is quite beautiful but I don't think it has that much customization.

[–] jrgd@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

As far as KDE vs. GNOME is concerned: KDE contains a lot of customizable features as an expectation and thus has great support for a wide array of customization. Both KDE and GNOME are extensible, with third-party extensions to extend or change functionality available. What makes GNOME less customizable, albeit supporting stylesheets and extensions, both are not expected to be used in any form (outside of defaults provided via Adwaita), and neither do many independent apps written in GTK3, GTK4. GNOME offers fairly minimal customization options without resorting to GNOME Tweaks, third-party extensions, and unsupported customized themes: all things that can break GNOME as while the customization does exist, the developers don't embrace it and have no expectation to not break it with any update.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Everything is customizable if you are brave enough with the code :)

But yeah gnome is known for breaking changes & rewrites. As a result, Cosmic desktop was born to be more stable and reliable with plugins. That's ~alpha. But if you truly wanna DIY, then the tiling window managers are king. Stuff like dwm and awesomewm where you configure every part of the UI and can easily make your own widgets