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elementary! It’s macish, but I still think pantheon is my favorite DE
I tried their icons on KDE (there is a theme) and these old, very detailed icons just dont make sense. Too much color, very incoherent style and way too much detail that you cannot see anyways.
But I have not tried it, as I was too dumb that you need Javascript to have the payment download button work.
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Logos and soft branding are important for my aesthetic pleasure so I like Fedora GNOME with Papirus icons and Oxygen Blue cursors. Manjaro GNOME, similarly set up, would be my second choice.
LMDE (Mint Cinnamon)
Elementary has some very clean sober themes. I fell in the tilling windows craze and ricing so I'm sporting an Arch (I use it btw) with AwesomeWM, so very minimalistic.
I like the look of tiling wms with a top bar. Hyprland looks especially nice with rounded corners and color gradients. Too bad it's not stable enough to be my daily driver at the moment.
Current distributions, I like EndeavourOS sway edition and Window Maker Live (wmlive).
Historically, I liked HP-UX and OpenSolaris with Gnome and the Nimbus theme. Linux Mint Darnya was nice. So was OpenSUSE 9.3 I think with Gnome and its custom launcher. Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Scientific Linux 6 was nice looking. We went a couple of years without CentOS so everyone used SL6.
I like simple default, so it is easier to customize. But If I have to keep the default I would say Garuda.
I've seen Gnome spiffed up to a level of polish I'd expect from an Apple commercial. I hate using it, but some folks get it looking nice.
Debian with the Awesome WM. I'm biased because that's what I use.
It's dead now, but Apricity was the first distro I really enjoyed the look of. Now I know better than to care about out of box appearance.
Out of the box experience is valuable though. No every user wants to tinker for an afternoon to make a system suit their needs. Some want to install and go, nothing wrong with that.
Out of box experience is a personal preference. It always has been. Every person expects something different so I don't really care about it anymore.
Nitrux looks pretty nice
Manjaro Sway
Weird way to misspell desktop environment. Or wm defaults. A gnome reskin isn't a distro.
Anything with GNOME is visually appealing but unfortunately the usability is pure garbage. KDE is the exact opposite and Xfce is quick but sits on an awkward place.