its really not as bad as people say. linux has same pretty reasonable standards that DEs all implement. most things you need for a DE run as daemons. the bigg

its really not as bad as people say. linux has same pretty reasonable standards that DEs all implement. most things you need for a DE run as daemons. the biggest pieces that cause problems are UI theming and application distribution. theming is less of an issue these days since applications just do their own thing anyways.