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If you think about it, Microsoft and Apple have considerable advantage when it comes to peripherals and bug fixing. With peripherals they have decades of experi
by davidthewatson 5y ago
If you think about it, Microsoft and Apple have considerable advantage when it comes to peripherals and bug fixing. With peripherals they have decades of experience working with vendors who are enticed to support them - I walked through the halls at building 27 (which was Windows engineering before I lived in Redmond in 1997) and the halls were decorated floor to ceiling with hardware peripheral boxes everywhere. That would have been Windows 95 or NT or something like that. Multiply that experience 25 years forward and you have a rough idea how much depth and breadth you'd get across every person, peripheral, and PC involved. No Linux vendor is close. Now consider the situation for bug resolution: you have dramatically narrower focus when you consider the source, tools, and binaries. Linux has numerous breadth and depth across kernel, hardware, peripherals, toolchains, and so on. There's really no one outside canonical and redhat and IBM driving that commercially. Compare to Apple or Microsoft who can afford to fund development across vendors for decades with no impact to their bottom line. If you wanted to have something approaching macos or windows, it's simple: reduce the features and focus on a single distro running a single desktop environment running on a single hardware environment. Fix those bugs and those bugs only. Ship! That's pretty much what you've got here minus the funding (AFAIK): https://pop.system76.com/ https://pop.system76.com/ Outside that, I'd vote for Garuda Sway, Manjaro Sway, or maybe Regolith Linux since I believe that Sway will eventually win the Linux Desktop war once people realize form follows function and those three have a headstart with the last having an easy port given i3 and ubuntu. I believe arch is a better base so I'd pick either of the arch-based distros, but garuda is ahead of manjaro given it's keybindings being ahead by a year or so.