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Quite frankly a lot more than this. The reason is that at the end of the day I need to be productive. While I viciously oppose this sort of stuff, I've turned o
by m0xte 6y ago
Quite frankly a lot more than this. The reason is that at the end of the day I need to be productive. While I viciously oppose this sort of stuff, I've turned off enough of it not to be bothersome and what is left is an extremely reliable, flexible and easy to drive operating system.
I am a very experienced Linux user both on desktop and server side of things. In fact 90% of what I do targets Linux but all the desktop solutions are quite frankly a mess. After 20 years of infighting and rewriting the universe, there is no cohesive desktop that even makes any sense at all and isn't bug ridden. I am forever fighting small things and edge cases to get anything working. Within a few days, it gets toasted and back to windows. I don't have enough hours left before I'm dead to actually argue with these things.
And as for MacOS, the hardware went down the toilet, you tend to have to fight the OS at every available opportunity, the pricing is quite frankly terrible and it's utterly inflexible. It's Apple's way or a punch in the balls. No thanks. At best I'm hanging on lightly to iOS as that's not too problematic when it's being inflexible (apart from HEIC which is a pain in the ass)
I also beg people to find a better place where I can throw together an 8-core workstation class machine with 32Gb of RAM, 4k 27" display, decent GPU, replaceable NVMe storage and high quality input devices for < £1300 that actually works reliably and the software doesn't get in the way.
- adolfojp 6y agoI got tired of trying to make Linux on the desktop happen when XFCE told its users that not being able to resize windows by dragging their borders was "not as much of a usability issue as some suggest". When every Linux desktop complaint gets dismissed with a variant of "you're holding it wrong" a bit of mandatory anonymous telemetry by the alternative doesn't look that wrong.
- Paianni 6y agoXfce doesn't represent all DE's and WM's. Chances are that statement came from a single dev anyway.
- adolfojp 6y agohttps://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce/ https://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce...
- ubercow13 6y agoI am resizing this window by dragging the border in XFCE right now
- adolfojp 6y agohttps://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce/ https://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce...
- ubercow13 6y agoYes, you have to click on the border instead of outside. There are other window managers available that don't have that issue. I often see this sentiment but I guess I don't get it. You are actually seeing a response from the developer about this, that's a good thing! They have repeatedly acknowledged the usability problem in the bug report I found [1], while explaining that the implementation would be difficult. I might wonder why in Windows I am not able to resize windows with a hotkey+the mouse instead of fumbling for the border to click on. Personally I find that much more of a usability issue. But I would never get some response from a Windows developer about it. I might make a post asking about it on a Microsoft support forum and get some volunteer unqualified Certified Microsoft Helper explaining to me why my use case is invalid, but you would probably never get any real contact with a developer. Wasn't it only Windows 10 that finally allowed you to scroll inactive windows under the mouse cursor, something that I'm sure worked fine on Xfree86 in the 90's? Using Windows can be pretty tiring too. [1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11808 https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11808
- m0xte 6y agoYeah that was one of the things that poked me in the eye.