> I’d really like to have a working Unix environment, and Linux stopped being that for me years ago. That ship sailed very, very long ago. The moment the GNU/Li

> I’d really like to have a working Unix environment, and Linux stopped being that for me years ago. That ship sailed very, very long ago. The moment the GNU/Linux community decided to implement their own desktops and not copy the standard Unix desktop - CDE, the die was cast. From then on we lost any possibility of having a unified standard desktop and instead we have two competing GUI toolkits neither of which can truly be called native. I am still optimistic that perhaps Wayland will raise the bar for making and maintaining your own DE so high that due to practical considerations we will end up with just one de-facto desktop API.