Oh no
Look out
It's CHOICE
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
835 points (99.4% liked)
linuxmemes
30216 readers
1426 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
- Don't come looking for advice, this is not the right community.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
More like OS Interior Design.
Not me writing my quickshell panel for over a week straight (so far) π
Some people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system
Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat
They are not the same
It's not bloat if you want it
don't love your desktop bloat, bloat your desktop love
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.
Whatever bloats your boat.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Ah but you see, this is my bloat! π
Yeah - I like my stuff. It might be a little bit messy, but I like it. But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.
Well, that depends... How valuable is his stuff?
load more comments
(1 replies)
Itβs not a Linux experience if you donβt customize it to the point of it breaking.
Idk, all the power to everyone who wants it but I also like ootb experiences
It's just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.
I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So... literally have nothing to do with Linux
Man, you have a lot of confidence in your ability to tell Rainmeter apart from Conky, Eww or the like, from just a handful of pixels...
Let's just say I've used Rainmeter a lot. And by a lot i mean for about 20 years. Is it possible people have created replica themes on Conky or viseversa on Rainmeter? For sure. I just found it funny that the image included Rainmeter skins. They're the kind of images you'll see as the poster for certain themes. And I've scrolled through more of them than I'd like to admit. And many of them are reposted a lot but use the same poster/thumbnail
I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.
It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.
Bloat isn't "software I chose and spent time installing and configuring"
But it can be "software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it"
load more comments
(1 replies)
The high customisability of Linux desktop is part of the reason why I moved from Windows. Everything looks so clean and modern, and doesn't have any of the Windows bloat. It's so good.
It really is. Every time I think "Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]", I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.
load more comments
(1 replies)
thats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows... or a DE on Linux
Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that's why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.
You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.
It's all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.
...but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
Gnome is customizable tho. Just not as much as kde:β :)
I keep reading that KDE is super customizable, but nobody ever gives examples. What can be customized other than changing colors and rearranging panels? I'd love to make it my own, but I don't have the first clue what that would mean.
load more comments
(5 replies)
Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.
I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.
I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now...
How do you customize it yourself? Every time I try to find info online I just find "use themes," but I'm not looking for whole themes, I want to kinda sorta slowly theme it myself like "oh I want this to be that color" and stuff, I just don't know what .conf files or whatever I need to edit.
Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
load more comments
(4 replies)
I got to the point in my life where I just enjoy a basic Debian XFCE with no customization (except for removing the bottom bar and adding some shortcut keys). With so much going on in real life, I learned of enjoy the never-changing stability on my PC.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc
Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.
@The_Picard_Maneuver
It doesn't have to be bloated. Desktops tend to be bloated. Its part of the interface design.
It's like forcefemming your pc :3
I almost spit out my coffee. Thanks!
Iβm a recent covert for my daily driver.
I actually liked my Windows setup because it was fast and streamlined.
What I didnβt care for was cutting out bloat every major update and the surprises like βwe just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid themβ
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next βΊ