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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by drinchev on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:57AM (#14955507)
Side topic.

I can't believe the list of top GTK3 Themes [1] are so much influenced by macOS ( second "greatest" one basically replicates even the icons ).

macOS is beautiful, indeed, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson's quoted :

"... Imitation is Suicide."

I bet if the effort is put towards themes that can distinguish GTK from anything else, there will be another reason of Gnome being the best LDE.

1 : https://www.opendesktop.org/s/Gnome/browse/cat/135/ord/top/

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by ac29 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:57AM (#14958426)
A quote widely attributed to Steve Jobs: "good artists copy, great artists steal." Turns out he wasn't really the first to say that or express that sentiment [0], but it'd be hard to argue that Mac OS (at least back in the 80s) didn't heavily rely on copied or stolen features.

[0] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by Maken on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:45AM (#14955813)
I find kinda funny how many of those themes are displaying captures of a themed up Unity rather than Shell.
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