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How close to plasma is Cinnamon?
By default, both Plasma and Cinnamon have a very similar set up to Windows.
However, Plasma is insanely modular and customizable, so if you're willing to take the time to, you can make it look as much like Cinnamon as you please. Given how simple Cinnamon's design is, I don't think it would be hard at all.
Hmmm. I'd like windows 98 to be honest.
You can make KDE look like that if you want.
I use cinnamon right now. I might do that on my next build
OK. Easy enough.
Plasma isn't as visually polished as Cinnamon. Go ahead and get your clock and CPU temp widgets in the system tray the same font size and positioning.
KDE feels a bit more cluttered because...I've said this before, KDE gives you every option under the sun, GNOME software isn't designed to do anything unless you add extensions to enable features, and Cinnamon is somewhere in the happy middle.
I'm pretty sure you can get Plasma to look and behave nearly identical to Cinnamon if you wanted.
I recently tried to do this because Cinnamon was pissing me off
I gave up after ~6 hours over 3 days, Plasma Amish a beast
Linux Mint 22.1 just came out with a new high DPI theme and some theme reworking and now my issues are fixed thank fuck