This is a poor rant. You never managed to change the terminal in grub? You couldn't change the background in KDE? These are PICNIC problems. It seems like you're frustrated about a lot of things, which is understandable, linux desktop is very far from perfect. You're also sticking with a distro that's essentially for enterprise server use. Throw that in with a few questionable practices (30 terminals windows?) then yes, I can see why you're not very happy. It seems like you're just taking out _your_ frustration on the linux desktop experience. I finally binned off windows in the last bastion it had in my personal life about 6 months ago (laptop) and it's been great. YMMV.