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This is an image someone else posted here. Asking if there was a desktop environment that looked like that. There wasn't really.
For the record, I run Linux Mint Xfce with Chicago95. Honestly it was a mistake, the vibes of the UI are nice but it still feels kinda Linuxy (as in, held together with duct tape) and I keep roling up Firefox by mistake. SerenityOS or FreeBSD, something Unix-like, may be more what I'm looking for.
If your looking for a diffrent desktop experiance the OS doesnt matter outside of if it has packages or not. You might want to try KDE plasma with custom themes if your not a fan of the way xfce works. Although xfce is also extreamly customizable in the way it works too if you take some time to read the docs
Yeah XFCE is great ! I tried KDE 6 to give it a try and compare but I guess I spent to much time in the CLI to bother about all the GUI knobs KDE provides !!!