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Yeah... the glass effect was kinda cool, I really liked it. But it's got nothing on the stuff Compiz could do. I wasn't into Linux in that thing's heyday but I really wish you could still get some of those effects. I've seen videos and there was cool shit in there.
My favourite fun graphical effect I've seen on a modern Linux DE, though, has gotta be the KDE scaling cursor thing. What can I say, I still find cursor effects stupidly funny after all these years. (I remember a browser game I used to play as a child, that had a loading screen gimmick with a little monster that'd chase and eat your cursor, complete with the most delightful chomp noise. I kinda want one of those as a little desktop panel.) Yes, I do realize that I'm a very childish adult at times, especially while using a computer.
Gnome extensions has the cube of desktops, the wobbly windows, and even the burn on close available
But then, I'd have to use GNOME. Which I guess isn't necessarily a bad DE, but I don't think I want it.
I've tried most DEs at this point but I keep coming back to GNOME. I think the only major one I haven't tried is Cinnamon, because its core "selling" point is looking like the bad OS and that is entirely unappealing to me, and because it didn't exist yet in my peak distrohopping era.
That's really funny, because Cinnamon is the only one I have used... and I'm starting to get pretty sick of it. I'm not entirely opposed to a DE that looks similar to Windows, especially older versions of it that actually worked (relatively speaking, of course), but I don't think that's really what I actually want/care about.
Well, you know what they say about distrohopping. Usually, you don't really want a new distro, you just want a new DE.
Try GNOME
I see so many posts of people who "got GNOMEd" by accident, and now one of the crazy (affectionate) Linux nerds on Hexbear dot net is telling me to do it on purpose... lol.
Get GNOME'd, nerd
Okay, that one's good and I totally walked right into it.
You really like GNOME, huh?
About a month ago, I distrohopped because the distro I was using (PopOS) stopped using a customized GNOME and started using their own (buggy, unfinished) COSMIC DE. Now I'm using Fedora GNOME.
I like that it's fast and smooth and stable and looks nice with no effort, and is very customizable through extensions. And I like that it makes absolutely no effort to resemble The Bad OS in any way.