hmph. as if it weren't clear enough before... today i accomplished the not-really-that-difficult-but-why-would-you-do-it feat of putting kde plasma on my linux mint install. and well um... guys... i do think xfce will have to take 2nd place... i absolutely love this desktop environment
i can't really give a clear explanation because there are, just oh so many things i could say about it... i think perhaps what i love most, personally, is the crazy amount of theming options of course...!!! i have been a sucker for theming since foreeever... people who viewed my site a bit earlier on might know, i used to theme my windows installs with windowblinds (i might have mentioned it in some of my other essays?). an awesome program, but, it does pain me to know it couldve been so much easier this whole time!!!
this is something that makes me a bit crazy about linux in general; there is pretty much always some form of theme customization even on a basic level... earlier windows versions had this (at least much better than current) and i really missed it!! its really insane that something as theoretically simple as trying to apply a theme can break your install on windows depending on how you do it. :p i remember attempting to install a windows 10 theme on my windows 7 computer when i was 9 or so and having to do a system restore! with the years i spent using that i almost feel kind of spoiled now, coming to linux... i can do so much... thank you for trusting me with this beautiful machine
doing practically anything on linux just fills me with joy... just opening a file i feel giddy at how quick it feels, let alone using the terminal (which felt natural to me instantly), i played an amazing visual novel recently and just getting it to work made me sooo excited ^_^ i feel this same way when playing with homebrew and the like, i suppose i just enjoy the feeling of being close to the hardware
i really cant think of me at any age not possibly enjoying linux--even little 5 year old me who was just getting their first PC, i feel wouldve enjoyed learning it... ive just always been a very knowledge-seeking problem-solving person i suppose and using linux really satisfies these urges in me, so similar to how browsing random wikipedia articles did when i was really little...
its also for these reasons that i think at some point i'll probably enjoy switching over to arch, but im not really in the mood to change distros rn, im quite happy with my weird little kde-ified mint... and i do still, admittedly, kind of have an irrational fear of operating a computer solely at the command line level LOL. its silly but im just afraid of doing one tiny little thing wrong and my computer just explodes or something... i used to get like this about using the washing machine so i guess i need to get over it if i want to be a successful nerd
it always seems to come back to my love of computers hm... i just want to protect them they feel so utterly fragile to me