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
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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It's not bloat if you want it
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.
don't love your desktop bloat, bloat your desktop love
Whatever bloats your boat.
Insert two wolves meme here
Im actually going for the Gus fring one
Yes but I am both
Inside of you are two Gus Frings
They are not the same
I'm the second part of this statement and I don't like it.
hey, all that processing power used to layer three layers of differently tinted slightly differently translucent blurred windows with rounded corners are WORTH IT.
EDIT : after all, you need it to run a terminal based browser.
Oh no
Look out
It's CHOICE
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.
Itβs not a Linux experience if you donβt customize it to the point of it breaking.
Idk, all the power to everyone who wants it but I also like ootb experiences
The high customisability of Linux desktop is part of the reason why I moved from Windows. Everything looks so clean and modern, and doesn't have any of the Windows bloat. It's so good.
It really is. Every time I think "Hey, it would be cool if my desktop could have [blank]", I look it up and someone has already had that idea and built it.
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More like OS Interior Design.
You may see insanity, I see home.
I got to the point in my life where I just enjoy a basic Debian XFCE with no customization (except for removing the bottom bar and adding some shortcut keys). With so much going on in real life, I learned of enjoy the never-changing stability on my PC.
Me too. I recently switched from NixOS to Fedora workstation because I didnt have the energy anymore to maintain my config. And all my kubernetes stuff got shoved in proxmox lxcs via the community scripts.
Bloat isn't "software I chose and spent time installing and configuring"
But it can be "software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it"
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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.
You got to recommend what fits the user. Otherwise you are just telling them what fits you.
It's all fun and games until you have to actually maintain everything as time goes on. At some point the tradeoff in personal time becomes too great.
My ricing days are long gone. Now I just roll with the defaults and adjust the key bindings since my muscle memory has already hardened into diamonds.
...but I actually like GNOME!
There are quite a few customization options for it too.
Finally KDE will allow us to save our custom desktop layout. I might spend all my weekends customising my setup from now on.
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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.
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.
I almost spit out my coffee. Thanks!
Not me writing my quickshell panel for over a week straight (so far) π
Its almost like I CHOSE to have this shit bog down my pc
Iβm a recent covert for my daily driver.
I actually liked my Windows setup because it was fast and streamlined.
What I didnβt care for was cutting out bloat every major update and the surprises like βwe just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid themβ
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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...
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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.
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Your title alone deserves multiple upvotes. The meme is just the icing.
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.
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Its fun. With the power of nixos i always have a safe fallback in case i brake something and need my laptop.
It's like forcefemming your pc :3
That's okay. I don't customize anything to balance it out.
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