Distros aren't going to be visually appealing as they typically and just standard desktops or CLI
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highly subjective
Logos and soft branding are important for my aesthetic pleasure so I like Fedora GNOME with Papirus icons and Oxygen Blue cursors. Manjaro GNOME, similarly set up, would be my second choice.
elementary! It’s macish, but I still think pantheon is my favorite DE
I tried their icons on KDE (there is a theme) and these old, very detailed icons just dont make sense. Too much color, very incoherent style and way too much detail that you cannot see anyways.
But I have not tried it, as I was too dumb that you need Javascript to have the payment download button work.
I use the La Capitaine icon pack because I agree, the default icons are pretty meh
Very cool and unique iconset!
DDE?
Gnome OS
I think that's for Gnome App developers and not for regular users.
I like the look of tiling wms with a top bar. Hyprland looks especially nice with rounded corners and color gradients. Too bad it's not stable enough to be my daily driver at the moment.
Debian with the Awesome WM. I'm biased because that's what I use.
I like the default look of Nitrux
Deepin looks great, I wouldn't use it but it looks great.
Mint with Papirus icons and blue accent colour set to match the folder icons of Papirus theme.
Elementary has some very clean sober themes. I fell in the tilling windows craze and ricing so I'm sporting an Arch (I use it btw) with AwesomeWM, so very minimalistic.
Manjaro Sway
Nitrux looks pretty nice
I like simple default, so it is easier to customize. But If I have to keep the default I would say Garuda.