Some people want to remove bloat to have a more efficient system

Some people want to remove bloat so they can fill it up again with their own bloat

They are not the same

Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂

I love that many of the pictures in the bottom are from Rainmeter. A software for Windows that allows you to place customised widgets anywhere. So... literally have nothing to do with Linux

It's just so fun having an OS that you can make work for you vs being shoehorned into things you never asked for.

You may see insanity, I see home.

thats the beauty of it, is it not? having your OS fit SPECIFICALLY you and your needs. i am now so used to my setup that i fell like i will get an aneurysm when trying to use windows... or a DE on Linux

Customization is and always will be a key selling point of Linux, that's why I refuse to recommend any district with gnome as DE.

Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.

Bloat isn't "software I chose and spent time installing and configuring"

Hey, it's not bloat if you want it!

I almost spit out my coffee. Thanks!

I’m a recent covert for my daily driver.

I actually liked my Windows setup because it was fast and streamlined.

What I didn’t care for was cutting out bloat every major update and the surprises like “we just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid them”

I slightly customized my KDE taskbar by centering it with panel spacers because that was the only thing i liked about Win11. Set it to auto-hide for OLED reasons. I dont remember if the slightly floaty style was standard with my distro or i did it?

Then like two tweaks to dolphin to make it look more like the 'detailed' view in windows explorer which is the only legit way to view files. Everybody else with these giant folders is fucking crazy. Probably the only thing where i'm not open minded.

Uh, yeah thats it. Havent changed anything else in almost two years on two different distros.

I found a thread on reddit where some doofus was claiming the classic cube layout from Compiz is completly useless and nothing more than eye candy after someone was having trouble with setting up the cube on Wayfire.

It is objectively the best way to handle multiple workspaces.

Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc

Oh no

Look out

It's CHOICE

I've been using Linux since Red Hat Halloween. I don't think I've ever customized a GUI much beyond its standard settings. My CLI though...

I like retro computing so I have one computer that has Niri themed like Windows 98, also have Plasma on it themed the same way. then I have another that has Sway themed like the Apple II.

It's like forcefemming your pc :3

Idk, default KDE is almost okay for me. I spend maybe 2 minutes changing a few task bar options and virtual desktops.

I used to go crazy with conky and icons and colors and a bunch of crap. Now I got work to do, leave my w95 looking desktop alone.

Its fun. With the power of nixos i always have a safe fallback in case i brake something and need my laptop.

I feel forced to use slightly customized breeze at this point, because every other theme I would like is either straight up buggy or does not support all of the features Plasma has now...

Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.

Like all things, it will pass. Still the possibility to go that far is a blessing