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Post #2157444

2026-05-07 13:25 UTC

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.

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  • @abra_k@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-07 14:16

    Thats very fair! Similarly, I looked at r/unixporn and wanted whatever they have. I gotta admit - that WAS a motivation for me hahaha Other DEs or gui frameworks support proper theming, adwaita has it’s reasons to ignore it. I’d love to see/hear about cool things you can do with qt theming or whatever, but whenever I got theming related things on my screen, it’s about how adwaita/gnome sucks and will kill your childlike wonder

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