Post #2153852
2026-05-07 12:05 UTC
I honestly don’t get the adwaita hate. These apps try to be simple and functional. This is the software for normal people who just want things to work. I used to care about theming my desktop a lot, but I’d rather have apps where form follows function (is that how you use that phrase?)
And there are projects that do bring almost enough theming to adwaita (“almost” = I saw 1 issue for me - rewaita is still pretty amazing): https://github.com/SwordPuffin/Rewaita
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-05-07 13:25
There is a lot to justify my move to Linux in hindsight, including privacy, less bloat, the nature of FOSS, etc. But before I really understood those concepts, a good chunk of why I switched over was my dissatisfaction with the loss of customization options starting with Windows 8. I’d still never bounce back to Windows, of course, but I am strongly considering writing a full theming engine like Kvantum, but to act as a libadwaita replacement/shim, if it creeps into too many packages I use on a daily basis. I’m glad that I have this possibility in Linux and that the theming can be altered in some capacity system-wide, rather than being baked into each package.