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[Answered] Most customizable desktop environment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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Edit: Yep KDE is the most customizable full desktop environment. I gave Gnome a shot but like KDE A lot more with desktop effects and kwin scripts.

What makes Linux appealing to me is the extent of customizability, but I didn't find many answers when looking up with desktop environment is them most customizable. Some say KDE is most customizable than say, Gnome, but doesn't Gnome support CSS customization while KDE doesn't?

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Install them both and try. 🤷‍♂️

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

I don't know if it was ever true that one was more customizable than the other. Maybe back in the early days of GNOME Shell or GNOME 2 you could say KDE was more customizable but right now it doesn't matter. KDE has like 451 million options ootb while GNOME has approximately 451 million extensions so it really boils down to which one you like more.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 5 months ago

KDE is the correct answer. I guess you could also learn coding, and then any piece of open-source software would become "customizable" to you...

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 months ago

For me the main difference is that KDE wants to be customized, whereas GNOME does not. You can theme gnome, but they don't like it and will not make it easy. As for css customizations, I themed some gtk (not gnome) apps and really don't want to do it again. The css is some weird flavor that doesn't support half of css features and you can't edit the "html" so targeting some elements is really difficult.

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I wonder how Hyprland fares for overall customization