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> Linux is, considering what's going on with the major distributions, desktop environments and UI toolkits, seemingly heading the same way. Sure, pick your own
by wnoise 6y ago
> Linux is, considering what's going on with the major distributions, desktop environments and UI toolkits, seemingly heading the same way. Sure, pick your own window manager, see if we care - we've got client side decorations! Want to theme your GUI? Yeah, but not in our Snap packages you won't! Want to turn off cursor blinking? Mmmmyyeeaahhh, not too sure about that. Oh, you started a GUI file manager? Hey, enjoy the ten new folders we've littered your home directory with! They all start with capital letters: designed for typing convenience in a case sensitive file system.
- viraptor 6y agoThose are weird complaints when talking about lack of customisation. Snaps are not enforced - you can run all of that software without them. Terminals will have their own cursor blinking config - worst case change your terminal. File manager creates directories? Disable that, or if you can't, change the manager, or if you can't configure system to deny creating them, or compile your own version which doesn't do it. The options are all there. I get the complaint about the lack of configuration on popular systems. But you can't have it both ways and then complain that Linux doesn't expose the options you really want. Every person will have something they'd like to do and you can't realistically expose millions of options without killing usability - but if you really want to adjust something, and are willing to put in some effort, you can.