just to beginner looking
I'd say it looks more "professional" than "beginner," you still have access to the console, to do any "advanced" stuff. It also lends itself nicely for when other people want to use your computer. It's comfortable and stable as fuck; I'm tired of constantly using buggy DE's with finicky display settings and having to manually edit a hundred confs to get things looking proper. Both KDE and GNOME are garbage, IMO. KDE less-so, but still: bloated.
I love the slide-out alerts menu. Instead of a thousand "bubbles" popping up and getting in the way, you can just click it to see all the messages in one place: all the bubble notifications you might have missed 'cause you were afk at the time, etc. It's like the linux version of Android's drop-down panel. There's nothing wrong with things being "simple." If anything, it takes a very thorough and intelligent group of people to make something simple that works well, is stable and doesn't give you problems. Nothing wrong with having high standards. ;)
You do you, fren. That's the great thing about linux: you can change whatever you want to make it work however you want. If you like open box, use open box. I used to use fluxbox, back in the day. It just got too annoying; I realized that I'm just the kind of person that wants someone who designs a DE to do it properly for me— don't want to spend all day fussing around with it. If I wanted a totally, 100% custom UI: I'd build my own from scratch. :p
KDE's big problem is they have to many widgets. The panel they have is crap, it's a bitch to get setup and the widgets are not clearly described so a place to hold your open programs it took like an hour to find the right one, total bullshit that people can't put a discriptive title or a screencap or something so you can actually see what the mystery widget really does. I wanted arch with open box but arco linux didn't specify you have to memorize script names to install the DE or that you ended up at just a login and my internet was not started so it was basically the basic ISO is installed so fuckoff I did my part.
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