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That one really really really pissed me off because it’s a task I expect to do tens of times a day. Also it has some serious focus loss issues in that space where you’ll have to tab or click something again.

I must have installed a Linux distribution 100 times with the intent of using it as a desktop and lasted less than a day every time. I’ve been doing it since 1998. Literally something that horrible punches me in the face every time.

I refer back to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678434

I bought a Mac now. I’m too old for the fight.

Everything I do server side is on Linux but the desktop is vile and I want no part of it any more.

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> I bought a Mac now. I’m too old for the fight.

I said the same a decade ago. As of last week, I'm back on X11... chipping away at configs for hours and hours and hours.

But I have libnotify popups now. :D

And if it goes like it did for me, that smile will turn upside down in a month and you'll format your Linux partition and move to WSL2 on Windows even if you haven't used it in 20 years. That's it, I'm done.

At least now I only have to put up with a slightly dated and crufty interface but I can use my PC to full potential - gaming AND work AND working bluetooth. Crazy huh?

In my case, I also managed to notice that my computer is much faster than it ever was on Linux, which is nice. If I had an old Core 2 Duo Linux would make it fly, but alas, I can afford a modern PC.

Yeah I've got a hefty PC here too running Windows. WSL2 is wonderful until you get your first Hyper-V bugcheck, filesystem corruption or weird ass network issue to debug. It's really not very good. I used it from day one and WSL1 before that which was even more horrible (NT impedance mismatch was obvious)

The compromise for me before migrating to Mac was using Windows on the desktop with Ubuntu VMs in Virtualbox. I had whole clusters running on my desktop.

Windows 10 is fairly decent on most hardware I have found. If they finished off all the little quality issues, had a decently integrated mobile ecosystem and stopped all the telemetry bullshit I'd be there now. I had some hope back in 2015ish when I was full time windows desktop dev with WP handset etc. Alas the world moved on so I dug the old Unix hat out.

Mac is great, I would use it full time if Jobs and Apple hadn't decided gaming is for kids. It's my hobby, especially now that I'm locked home, and being unable to play the latest PC game is an unacceptable compromise for me. No, a console is not what I'm looking for.

So in that case, Windows is the best compromise. And while I'm still in the proprietary world, I'm outside the walled garden.

In any case, I haven't hit any WSL2 bug or corruption in these 6 months (nor blue screen), so fingers crossed.

Yes I keep my PC for games as well.

I wish you continued fortune with WSL2.

Run `kcmshell5 kwinoptions` or System Settings → section Workspace → item Window Management → subitem Window Behaviour → tab Focus.

You are not allowed to complain about "Linux" when your beef is really about Gnome.

If I use KDE I'm still subjected to GTK and Freedesktop for stuff I use which is where all the bugs live. But then I have more inconsistencies between Qt and GTK so in fixing it that way I now have two problems.

Linux itself is fine. It's the layers of shit smeared on top that are not.

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