Much better than modern minimalist look.
Currently I sport Oxygen theme with GNOME icons which is good enough, but itās not quite there.
Only modern Ui trend Iāve enjoyed is dark mode, I remember using WindowBlinds back on Win7 to make my own dark mode but it still keeping the Aero look.
KDE with Volatile + Avalon icons have been the closest Iāve gotten to the look I really want on modern systems.
Iāve not tried them personally but Iāve seen quite a few aero themes for KDE and I think XFCE too if you want an aero look. Or if you just want a glassy texture you can adjust your blur settings in your compositor and add translucency/transparency. I have a very nice-looking matte frosted glass look on my Hyprland laptop.
I actually went back to a light gray theme for my new Linux machine after Iāve been stuck with Windowsās options of āflat pure black with hairlinesā and āflat bright white with hairlinesā for too long.
I donāt actually need dark mode that much (except for coding) if a bright mode theme is easy enough on the eyes. Windows 10 is just so ugly that only the dark mode is halfway palatable.
If only the old themexp.dll hacks still worked I could have a decent looking desktop on all of my machinesā¦
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