• evranch@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    At this point Linux desktops have maintained a more stable UI, quirks and all. The main thing is the freedom of choice. If I want a standard start menu/toolbar interface that just works, KDE. Classic lightweight look and feel? XFCE. Stripped down tiling WM? i3. Then there is also Gnome Shell if you’re into that sort of thing ;)

    However I know for certain that next year I won’t be forced to use a UI that totally scraps functionality I’ve been used to for 20 years and changes everything for the sake of change.

    MS changes things without giving the customer a choice, from the Ribbon interface that started in Office, to the tile based launcher of Windows 8 and now the awful start menu of 11.

    I have a windows partition for my tax software and last year I managed to run it under Wine, so haven’t booted it in a year. Gaming under Linux is great now thanks to Steam/Proton!