My own personal history: - first machine a dismissed SGI O₂ so Irix/CDE I do not remember witch version - after few year my first laptop with Windows XP (newl

My own personal history: - first machine a dismissed SGI O₂ so Irix/CDE I do not remember witch version - after few year my first laptop with Windows XP (newly released): I was shocked how limited and bad it is. - quickly turn to GNU/Linux following some family friend / teachers suggestion, unsatisfied, they were still crap compared to Irix to my eyes - turn to FreeBSD, hw issues but not much (it was the time from linux 2.4-2.6 passage) I start to breathe a bit - OpenSolaris then another breathe - Back to FreeBSD after it's death but too many hw issues, so back again to GNU/Linux, now still on it with NixOS That short history to state a thing: hw got more and more powerful but also crappy and software keep turning to crap. I think that anti-customer age start right after Xerox/LispM era, even SGI was bad respect of them, they have tried "the unix way" and quickly touch it's limits badly correcting them introducing anti-unix patterns in Unix with GUIs. In that context my desktop environment is Emacs (EXWM) and while buggy and limited in bootloader OS terms I do not really know how people can keep using "modern GUI", not only Windows since their absurd limits and limitations. The main point is that a desktop must be a flexible tool for the human user, not an endpoint, not a dumb terminal, not a set of know pre-determined by someone else. The rest is noise.