maple classic™ 
i wish i had the patience and knowledge of linux wms to configure a wm i like but linux is absolutely cryptic
mate is ok but it's hard to find the programs i want other than memorizing terminal lines
fvwm was nice but crashed too much
xfce has good usability but looks awful
@squirrel I'm quite fond of i3 but that's because I'm one of those bizarre individuals who prefers tiling window managers
@troubleMoney i could never do tiling wms ever
i just want nice window trimmings but that's too much to ask from linux
@squirrel ah yeah, pretty and nice have never really been development priorities
I've heard some good things about pop!_OS being nice to use, haven't tried it myself though
@troubleMoney looks too modern to me
i honestly just want it to look like irix but usable in a modern context
@squirrel eesh, yeah, that's not good
openbox might be suited to making it look like irix, that one's very customisable
@troubleMoney the problem is i dont have the patience and knowhow and ability to customize it myself from scratch
you give me too many options and i just panic and cry not having any direction
i want to just pay someone to custom build me a linux desktop environment
@squirrel half of what comes out of my mouth is me thinking out loud
I'll see what I can find/come up with and then I'll come back with what I've worked out
@squirrel oh i was just doing some looking for you
maybe sawfish could work? it's a lot like fvwm
@squirrel oH MY GOSH MAPLE I FOUND A THING
so some weird company makes a port of 4dwm (the IRIX wm) called 5dwm that runs on Linux!!
and the install instructions are here: http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site/?page_id=529
and it looks like this!!!
@er1n yes that's maxx desktop like i said
it's
unfinished and buggy and doesn't work right on ubuntu
i tried
@er1n and the person who made it disappeared several times and then came back with new versions and every time he disappears the download links go offline and it's basically vaporware
@squirrel ewwww im sorry
@er1n not your fault
otherwise yes maxx desktop looks very pretty and very much something i want
@squirrel ohhh :(
sorry
@squirrel i didn't see that post
@troubleMoney the closest i got was fvwm on ubuntu but it crashed so often that i got too frustrated about randomly losing all of my work because it had no fallbacks it just brought the whole fucking thing instantly down and kicked you back to the login manager and whoops all your work is gone if you didn't save it