Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?

nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off

I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.

Then I'll notice that one of my main apps doesn't adhere to the theming i've designed, or that will completely break my theming because , or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.

Then I'll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.

There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.

Do the windows wobble?

I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.

Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.

For gaming its Plasma.

Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.

Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).

i3wm has been my daily driver for the past 4 years. I just flow on it

KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.