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Is there anything that takes the flat look of Windows 10? I really prefer the flat simple look of Windows 10.

KDE Plasma? I haven't used it personally but from looking at the screenshots and videos featuring it, I think it looks good aesthetically.

And the trope that KDE is bloated hasn't been true for the past 6 or 7 years too.

I'll concur that it looks really good, but it's also pretty buggy. (fully updated KDE Mint)

Report them upstream if you have the time. I'm looking to give all popular DEs a chance in an Arch Linux VM pretty soon.

Ever since moving to just a window manager (awesomeWM to i3wm) I've not felt the need for a full-fledged desktop environment.

For KDE you might want to go with KDE Neon

https://neon.kde.org/

Try out Antergos 17.4 in a VM. I think you'll really like it. I personally use Ubuntu 16.04/Unity 7, but I'm very impressed with the flat look and sleekness overall. Antergos is based off of Arch Linux. https://antergos.com

Took a screenshot for you also: http://i.imgur.com/bPyvCsN.png

That's actually pretty nice! There goes my weekend. Thanks.

:) welcome!

In my opinion, Arch currently has the nicest package management system with the straightforward if excessively terse pacman syntax and the wealth of packages in the AUR. Considering this is one of the most noticeable differences between distros, it has made me stick with Arch with no plans of switching to something else. I've heard great things about Antergos as well, as configuring an Arch install clearly doesn't make sense for many users.

The thing I hate about the AUR is that you (usually) have to compile everything on your machine. Sometimes I hit a package that takes an hour to build and then dies because I'm missing a dependency that isn't installed by the script. And then that dependency has missing dependencies.

aurget --noedit --deps might speed things up for you, I have it aliased. It pulls in missing dependencies and skips editing the build scripts (I also use --noconfirm, but that's probably not the best practice)

There are some gnome themes that you can apply that might do the trick:

https://www.slant.co/topics/2087/~gnome-shell-themes

Elementary.io maybe?

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