Life is too short for boring windows

Why does your computer look the same as everyone else’s?

Ditch the tired material design, muted colors and inoffensive typography. Did you hire an interior designer to set up the furniture in your home? No? Why then, do you let UI designers dictate the aesthetic of your digital home?

Maybe you don’t think of the software you use as your own space, since you didn’t create it. Your workplace is not your home, but that does not stop you from hanging up pictures of your kids in your cubicle.

Let your inner designer have fun and customize the appearance of the software you use.

Many in the linux community that find fun in customizing the appearance of software. I admire their efforts, and a lot of their “rices”¹ are extremely sleek. Because of this, people will want to copy it, and I think that is a mistake. There is something inherently good about choosing yourself how your digital space looks, and not letting it be dictated (even by the Arch Linux sweats).

Your digital space should be yours.