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What is the most beautiful Linux distro?

By research I've done Elementary, Solus and Mint came up often.

Experienced Linux developers, which Linux distro did you find to have the best UI? I'm not talking about opportunities through customization and settings, but distros out-of-the-box.

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Yasar Yousuf
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optimizingos

NO don't ever try DEEPIN OS !!!

Try Deepin DE if you accidentally falled in love with it
Distros like Fedora or Endaevor OS or Garuda Linux with deepin interfaces are much better if you like Deepin Look.

Still, I recommend KDE or cinnamon or Gnome over deepin

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Madza

Looks clean, thanks for the recommendation 👍🔥

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saandeepd • Edited

Deepin OS is a Spyware

linuxinsider.com/story/deepin-linu...

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Ceph

Nothing in that article says that... it actually even says the opposite.

"None of my expert sources were aware of any occurrences involving spyware or malware embedded in the OS code related to Deepin Linux or any other distros. However, a concern did surface last year surrounding Deepin’s website and Appstore, according to Daniel Smith, head of threat research at Radware."

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Vishal Raj

I believe deepin 15 had great look, but disagree for deepin 20

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Carl Draper

Yeah they've got rid of the nice sidebar for the most recent version

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D-mitchell • Edited

No software produced in CCP controlled China can be trusted. But it is pleasant looking, too bad.

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#TechStoa

I've heard a similar argument for why you shouldn't trust NSA created SELinux.

With Open Source you don't need to trust. You can read the code.

As opposed to closed source software produced by American corporations. Apparently our corporations have no interest in survival of the species, or retaining a Democracy.

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Carl Draper

Then try UbuntuDDE which uses only the open source parts of Deepin desktop

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Nieuwe Pixels

Ubuntu came in the news for sending searches to Amazon. Not sure if they still do though. Just mentioning it.

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Carl Draper • Edited

They removed that a couple of releases ago and it only affected the main Gnome based release, not other desktops

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JDeep

Its Open Source and even if you are a little bit tech savvy , it wouldn't be hard to remove all the preinstalled bloatwares.

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jonosellier

Elementary OS is my pick for best out of the box beauty. Obviously there is so much more you can do with it than what comes out of the box but if a s̶h̶i̶p̶ OS leaves port and has every piece replaced one by one, is it the same s̶h̶i̶p̶ OS when it comes back?

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vdmokstati

i also like they privacy focus.. privacy + elegance = win

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Meow

I am using Pop!_OS with Orchis theme

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Stokry

yes, Pop!_OS is awesome.

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Jason F

I've been using Pop!_OS! for about a year. Even out of the box it is visually pleasing.

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Lakshya Singh

Try KDE on Pop and you love it more :))

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David

awesome theme! thanks!

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luski • Edited

I tried lots of them and finally stayed for longer with vanilla gnome (on fedora). It has the biggest community working on it, so it's the most professional desktop: simple but elegant and consistent. And well thought, without random features

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9MZa

Just try Garuda Linux
garudalinux.org/

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optimizingos

Loved Garuda Linux !!!

With BTRFS and automatic snapshots, Garuda Linux is my most loved Arch Based Dsitro.
It also has best theme pre installed in KDE Edition.

The Website is
garudalinux.org/

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Nathaniel Stickley

Personally, I can't really consider a distro beautiful unless it works well. Here's one of the workspaces on my Manjaro KDE with Latte dock. Pop!_OS is also pretty nice. Deepin and Elementary look nice, but the appearance is superficial.

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Arun Murugan • Edited

It has to be Manjaro + KDE!

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Madza

Is this out-of-the-box? Looks super clean 🤩

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Arun Murugan

Nope, With some Customizations, it looks Cool!

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Madza

Yeah, I noticed by installed apps 😉

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jbalatos

I'd say Pop is (don't know how it's spelled properly 😂). It is the very same Ubuntu everyone loves, but adding a tile window manager (which can be turned off if you don't want it), a beautiful log in screen and overall great icons!

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bimlas

XFCE + whatever you like. For me it's Adwaita GTK theme + Elementary-Xfce icons (both have light and dark variants so i can use it with night mode as well).

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Mike Bybee

Can't ever take XFCE seriously until they get rid of that stupid Orage calendar "applet." It's so terrible.

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leob • Edited

I go for Ubuntu simply because it's the biggest and most popular one, with the broadest support and the biggest community ... Linux is already fragmented and obscure enough, and this consumes a lot of effort and energy - standardization on one popular distro has many advantages.

Oh and if it's not about distro per se but about UI/window manager, of course Ubuntu supports many but I'd just go for Gnome Classic, simple, no frills and productive.

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