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I used Linux (Gentoo/KDE) quite a bit about 10 years ago, this year I ran Manjaro as one of my clients used that for their developer workstations. I was severe

I used Linux (Gentoo/KDE) quite a bit about 10 years ago, this year I ran Manjaro as one of my clients used that for their developer workstations. I was severely disappointed. UI scaling for high resolution displays was terrible. Configuration still spread in a billion places, badly documented, and with the polish of a gravel road. Still no smooth scrolling, and no good remote access solution, unless you think VNC is still considered good. It's not. Apart for some pretty logos, it felt almost exactly like the system I left 10 years ago. I actually felt rather sad that day. It's rather shameful, but not unexpected how all those massive companies that built their businesses on Linux can't be bothered support what is - in a sense - the "origin" of that success: That people wanted a decent OS with a nice GUI where we also wouldn't have to be prisoners of Microsoft, Apple, or anyone else.

wayneftw 7y ago
If you're going to scale the UI, why even bother with a high resolution display? Honest question: What do you do that requires more than 1080p? > Configuration still spread in a billion places, badly documented... Not quite a billion, but hey at least you can configure things the way you want very much unlike macOS where you have absolutely no choice whatsoever. I can't remember the last time I even used official documentation for macOS or Windows. Don't you just google everything? Aside from that, what resources do you have for mac/win that are better (more detailed?) than the Arch Linux website (which applies to Manjaro)? When I first setup Manjaro, I looked at all the remote access solutions as well and I found that X2Go was the best performing solution. Did you give that a try?