I am looking for a distro with a customisable UI. I want the ability to change everything in the UI: like changing the window borders style, animated interface, creating transition animations. Something that can allow me to create UI from my favourite video games. I am even willing to learn a language if needed. Just don’t suggest arch because I’m only interested in visuals. I don’t want to spend time creating and troubleshooting other aspects of os. Also, if above requirements can be achieved with changing the desktop environment, please suggest that too. I am somewhat familiar with Linux as I used it a few years ago for some time. Back then, the games’ support was lacking, so I switched back. But now with steam os and proton’s contribution, games shouldn’t be a hassle to run.
linux distributions generally don’t develop ‘their’ ui and all distributions worth using generally provide a large number of compositors, wms, or des to choose from.
essentially you just need to find a reasonable linux distribution based on repositories and package managers and set up the ui elements as you like. sddm and plasma are a reasonable starting point
while some people claim that arch is more difficult to use or requires additional troubleshooting, it is really very similar to the vast majority of other distros, especially if youre looking into in-depth customization of the desktop. arch and fedora have excellent package managers and expansive repositories. opensuse and ubuntu are also fine.
Good to know but it still feel a bit daunting to just jump straight to arch like going directly to final boss after chapter 1. Though I’ll try it once I have a spare machine.