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Linux on desktop users shouldn’t be bemused until Linux desktop experience isn’t a pile of UX trash. Linux on the desktop is still so frustrating, ugly, and only marginally more useful over a Mac for extremely specific use cases, that I would rather use Windows + WSL2.

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Whenever I read these comments I really wonder what do you do with your desktop environment. I spend most of the time inside an app, mostly the browser, the terminal or the editor. As long as the desktop env doesn't get in the way it's good. The only annoyance I experience when I switch back and forth from GNOME to MacOS is really the different keyboard shortcuts and that I have to install an additional tool (Rectangle) to get basic window tiling on mac. I can even use Windows these days, as long as WSL is installed

I've become a wsl convert now as I can trust windows to deal with sleep/wakeup and wifi much better than linux. If macosx experiences a developer exodus I think it's likely many will follow suit. Especially with things like WSLg coming out

With the M2 MacBook Pros due in a couple months, it’s more likely Apple experiences an inflow of developers.

These past 6 months with WSL2 are the most productive I've been since I've spent 2 years on the Apple ecosystem or 15 years on Linux.

I don't have to debug OS wide breakages or weird Wifi/BT issues or unstable GUIs and it's running Linux, not BSD on a weird kernel and file system with... interesting permissions and security settings.

And I can play games and use Docker at native speed.

YMMV.

> Linux desktop experience isn’t a pile of UX trash.

Desktop Linux is the only bearable desktop UX. Anyone who actually prefers the UX of desktop Windows is mentally deranged and should not be allowed to make user facing software.

> Anyone who actually prefers the UX of desktop Windows is mentally deranged

Think a bit about what you say.

I stand by my words.

Standing by a demonstrably wrong statement is your right.

Hey, I make no promises as to my level of sanity. But yes, desktop Linux UX is trash. Trash being defined by incomprehensible design and inconsistent implementation of proper design lessons learned in the last 20 years.

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