The first thing you need to ask is, are you using Xorg or Wayland? I will assume you are on X11 because I think most major distros still use it by default, but this is going to be changing soon. If you are using Wayland, ricing it uses a totally different set of tools.

The package manager of most major Linux distros let you install an alternative desktop environment. For example, if you are using Ubuntu with the default Gnome desktop, you could install Xfce using the command apt install xubuntu-desktop. Then logout, and in the screen where you type your password, select the Xfce desktop environment from the menu, and login again. Now you have your new desktop environment running the xfwm4 window manager.

You don’t need Xfce desktop, but it is usually easier for beginners to customize than rolling your own desktop environment. Once you figure out Xfce ricing, you can try rolling your own.

An alternative to Xfce which is also very customizable is KDE Plasma, but they configure everything through their own internal tooling.

If you are using Xorg under Xfce, then from there you can install alternative window managers like i3, Awesome-WM, OpenBox, and so on. Most of the time you install this from the package manager. Most X11 window managers let you switch the current window manager from the command line. For example, to switch to OpenBox, in a terminal type openbox --replace. Any existing windows you have open will stay open but their decorations will change, and so will the wallpaper (probably).

Then you can install alternative window manager themes and icon packs from GitHub, or websites like https://www.xfce-look.org/browse/. Be aware that OpenBox may not be able to use all the themes that Xfwm4 can use. As always, read the manual.

Finally, you can install other desktop tools like Conky, Rofi, Kitty terminal, btop, Tint2 Panel.

Not sarcastic, I genuinely like this sort of thing. To each their own.

How can you pirate Photoshop and Elements? They are WebAssembly binaries that phone home before you are allowed to use them.

Why are you trying to distract from that?

I am not trying to distract from that, I thought I made myself clear:

this particular report seems to be more concerned with anti-Trans and neo-Nazi propaganda which is indeed a real problem, and their research here would otherwise probably be very useful

But if Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL is defending the genocide of Palestinians, that is some pretty important context. If there happens anything in the report about pro-Palestine protests being equated with neo-Nazis, you need to take those parts with an extra few grains of salt.

Poisoning the well

Yeah, that seems to be the M.O. of the Anti-Defamation League with regard to anti-zionism: poison the well against anyone who might feel empathy with the Palestinian people before they have a chance to speak, by equating them with antisemitism and Nazis.

Ironically, the Palestinian people are technically Semitic people also, but their wells are being literally poisoned by white Phosphorus bombs “made with [white] pride in the USA,” and dropped by different Semitic people who have the privilege to do that.

This is why white supremacy is so evil, it is so arbitrary. Who gets counted as “white” and that dividing line between enjoying privilege and being a victim of mass murder changes from day to day, and place to place. Zionism just happens to include Jews in that definition of white (while also excluding Palestinians), where as antisimitism excludes Jews, but both are white supremacy.

Until the ADL gets rid of their pro-genocide leadership and spokespeople, I can’t take any of their reports seriously. Its a shame, since this particular report seems to be more concerned with anti-Trans and neo-Nazi propaganda which is indeed a real problem, and their research here would otherwise probably be very useful. They have really damaged their own reputation this past half year by equating support of Palestinian victims of genocide with antisemitism.