The best (most productive, least off-the-wall) I can do year after year seems to be to run an XFCE desktop. But its not polished (although the icon set got ref

The best (most productive, least off-the-wall) I can do year after year seems to be to run an XFCE desktop. But its not polished (although the icon set got refreshed recently which is nice.) Poor UX for me seems to boil down to off-the-wall or geek fad UX decisions the major desktop managers make with every new version that drive me back to XFCE. Linux vendors, please focus on productivity and less on glitz/chasing the unified mobile & desktop UX dragon. Please?! Also, I can't pin exactly why I think this is, but linux desktop managers always feel bolted on rather than integral to the experience - it doesn't strike me as valued by the operating system vendor as much as the underlying kernel. Maybe its an inconsistent frame rate thing or trackpad funkiness on my underpowered HP laptop that has me so negative on the Linux feel.