But hey, I'm just a normal kid, like you, except that I ask questions
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Cosmic does seem a bit different from usual linux desktop environments. I am intrigued. I does look like something I would try. Kudos
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Wayfire is pretty unique, too!
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formatting. learn it. use it.
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kde is shit looking, sorry bro, no karma.
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Also how to title a post.
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First of all, you need to distinguish between a desktop environment and a distro. a distro by itself doesn't have any looks, that is up to the desktop environment mostly. Secondly, you assume that the goal is attracting lots of users, which might be true for purely profit driven conpanies such as microsoft or apple, but linux mostly comprises of open source projects put together. only a few of the maintainers have the ultimate goal of attracting more and more users. they have an intrinsic motivation to create a cool project and hope it finds attraction by function instead of form.
now, what i reallylike about your post is that you do not just rant but want to get into solving exactly that problem. in my limited experience, loads of work go into designing a consistent UI that is just as functional as it is beautiful. hats off to you if you can really do it, but prepare for a rough ride, because UX mistakes are one of the first things to attracting users' dissatisfaction which makes it a very unthankful job.
if you really want to get started, try first thinking about theoretical stuff: color schemes, usage paradigms, user stories and a general concept you want to adhere to, before you even start drawing some wireframes. UX design also requires rigorous testing from various different points of view and for most developers, it is just not worth putting that much effort in just to have "a little" less users complaining and instead calling the interface pretty (again: function over form).
also another reason might be the terminal affinity of devs that has them leaning away from UI, because a CLI is enough for a start.
i wouldnt call mint cinnamon the ugliest distro/DE pairing like other commenters, but i get that people looking for the prettiest desktop are prolly looking elsewhere.
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Are you sure your standards of beauty apply to most people?
IMO macos design looks cheap compared to kde.The main reason open source projects lack adoption is because there is no marketing or lobbying budgets.
Also you seem to be new here. No one cares about karma on Lemmy.
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I like your constructive criticism. You are good people
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Also, don't post an image (and then tag it as NSFW‽) for a text post!
If I'm looking for a text post, maybe I want to read discussion, and I see an image, I'll skip it.
If I want to see images, and then see something that makes no sense and has no context, I'll be irritated and confused when I realize it's a nonsequitur attachment to a text post.
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Do you know just how much money Apple pours into the design of their operating system?
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Since when design is rocket science especially now when there is AI which could create better sleeker design than apple
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If you care for looks, GNOME looks far better than KDE, I would recommend Fedora GNOME to a newbie that wants a pretty and intuitive Linux experience.
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Have you tried Fedora GNOME? Looks pretty nice to me, and the UI is powerful and intuitive as well as attractive.
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I aint reading all that.
Have you tried Gnome? IMO it does a better job than OS X at providing a simple, clean, streamlined gui
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If you think LLMs will solve everything, then you're doomed.
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Why is this tagged NSFW?
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You'll understand when you get older kiddo.
Oh if only you'd lived through the days of funroll-loops gentoo is rice.
Linux users have other priorities
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just because of the nature of the post, i thought die hard linux fans will find it nsfw ;D
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Good looking UI (designs) and good UX is not the same!
Apple is known for doing both relatively good (especially on the first iphone).
However personally I still dislike the Apple UI (the macos dock eats too much screen space, ios close all where?, ios back gesture,... for example) and UX (the system actively tries to prevent me from doing certain things). I mean, in the end, there often are keybindings that do the job, but those are harder to learn the the emacs keybindings imo.
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u are indeed an artiste
