All i see is a source engine console in the pic, not really a terminal as in terminal emulator. console is more correct here i think

I’m hoping to transition from left to right wihtout going through the middle stage.

May I introduce you to the simple life of just using whatever text editor and terminal that comes presintalled on your favoraite distro? It’s ridiculous how far this can get you, I’ve been enjoying gnome text ediotor with gnome terminal.

Not that different, I tried. Animation smoothness is slightly better on gnome, apps startup times were slightly better on KDE this is more of qt6 vs gtk than DE difference.

wow looks dogshit compared to previous one