When I first started to use puppy, I almost immediatly wanted to run away. It looked horrible*, like something from the early 90's that had got lost in a time capsual and was put on the internet for a laugh. However after a few tweaks to its looks so I could deal with it, I fell in love. The fast processing, the huge selection of programs and the nice and simple pet packaging system made me stay. When I finally got around to upgrading to puppy 4.1 I was extremely happy with the improved user interface, and after installing and running the pwidgets and icewm, I realised that it could look good and was customisable to a point where I felt that I could proudly show my friends my computer that made XP look outdated. (See pic below). I don't have a fancy machine, just a standard laptop thats about 5 years old. It runs puppy fine, 'bling**' and all.
I understand if you want something that looks like its from the 80's but if you're going to keep complaining that it doesn't look how you want then either do what I did and customise it yourself or find another distro. Its not that hard to do, and if you're as computer savy as you try to make out you are then you should have no problem making it look how you think puppy should. (ie make your own puplet.)
Now please, can we all stop criticising each other and this distro or it could end up killing it altogether. I love this distro and I think that it can only get better, and if gettting better means improving how it looks then I say bring it on! Vistah eat our dust! We're faster, more powerful and can even rival you on looks. Don't mess with this Puppy cause its got Bite!
*Puppy 2.x
** I personally dislike the word 'bling' to describe puppy's eye candy. Bling is horrible gold/diamond/silver jewlrey worn in excess by wanna-be gansters and chavs. Puppy linux's eyecandy does not fit this description. It is simple and elegent yet bold enough to make a statement and look good along side more traditional distros such as Windows, Mac and Ubuntu.
