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Author here: let me clarify further. I’m not just talking about the CLI experience, since WSL doesn’t bring you anything new there. It’s Ubuntu (by default), o

Author here: let me clarify further. I’m not just talking about the CLI experience, since WSL doesn’t bring you anything new there. It’s Ubuntu (by default), or whichever other distro you choose. When it comes to desktop applications (both in breadth & quality), video/GPU drivers, and (if it wasn’t clear already!) my preferences for a desktop experience, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian with XFCE, Fedora + KDE, etc - just don’t do it for me. And that’s OK, because what I prefer probably doesn’t do it for you.

setquk 8y ago
I'll give you the desktop environments aren't very good. Gnome 2 was about the peak and it went a bit weird after that as they appeared to have an internal battle between making it look like MacOS and inventing something new while locked in a dungeon with a bong. xfce isn't quite polished enough even with a lot of configuration done.
- intertextuality 8y ago
  That's why people don't even use a desktop environment. My setup for the past year and a half has only been: * xorg server * i3 tiling wm * rofi application launcher that's all one really needs.
- rbanffy 8y ago
  I'm kind of happy with Gnome 3. It's almost Mac-like in being opinionated, but steps out of the way most of the time. I'm using it with Fedora on a couple machines and it works great. I gave up on having my desktop looking like a futuristic sci-fi movie UI and that brought me a lot of peace (and free time). ;-)
  - rhinoceraptor 8y ago
    None of the desktops are any good at high DPI yet, and Gnome seems to have gone off the deep end in terms of killing useful features and settings (removing desktop and tray icons for example). It’s absurd to remove these things, and have the community re-implement core desktop feature as Javascript plugins without even a stable API between major versions.
    - aeroevan 8y ago
      GNOME on Wayland is nice on my hidpi screens. Wayland even got mixed DPI working better that most of my co-workers windows or Mac machines.
      - rhinoceraptor 8y ago
        It still doesn’t have fractional scaling like the Mac does (at least without Wayland). I have 28” 4K monitors, so I need to run them at about 1.25-1.5x. To do that, I need to scale to 2x in the Gnome settings, then scale down using xrandr, and I have to manually position the X offset the second monitor.
        rbanffy 8y ago
        OTOH, Wayland is able to run software written in the 80's without it realizing. That's quite an accomplishment.

setquk 8y ago

I'll give you the desktop environments aren't very good. Gnome 2 was about the peak and it went a bit weird after that as they appeared to have an internal battle between making it look like MacOS and inventing something new while locked in a dungeon with a bong. xfce isn't quite polished enough even with a lot of configuration done.

intertextuality 8y ago
That's why people don't even use a desktop environment. My setup for the past year and a half has only been: * xorg server * i3 tiling wm * rofi application launcher that's all one really needs.
rbanffy 8y ago
I'm kind of happy with Gnome 3. It's almost Mac-like in being opinionated, but steps out of the way most of the time. I'm using it with Fedora on a couple machines and it works great. I gave up on having my desktop looking like a futuristic sci-fi movie UI and that brought me a lot of peace (and free time). ;-)
- rhinoceraptor 8y ago
  None of the desktops are any good at high DPI yet, and Gnome seems to have gone off the deep end in terms of killing useful features and settings (removing desktop and tray icons for example). It’s absurd to remove these things, and have the community re-implement core desktop feature as Javascript plugins without even a stable API between major versions.
  - aeroevan 8y ago
    GNOME on Wayland is nice on my hidpi screens. Wayland even got mixed DPI working better that most of my co-workers windows or Mac machines.
    - rhinoceraptor 8y ago
      It still doesn’t have fractional scaling like the Mac does (at least without Wayland). I have 28” 4K monitors, so I need to run them at about 1.25-1.5x. To do that, I need to scale to 2x in the Gnome settings, then scale down using xrandr, and I have to manually position the X offset the second monitor.
      - rbanffy 8y ago
        OTOH, Wayland is able to run software written in the 80's without it realizing. That's quite an accomplishment.