The Linux desktop has been pretty good for over ten years now. The real trend is that the Windows desktop has declined rapidly since Win 7. I switched over fro

The Linux desktop has been pretty good for over ten years now. The real trend is that the Windows desktop has declined rapidly since Win 7. I switched over from vanilla Ubuntu to Xubuntu recently. Wished I had done so earlier. XFCE is probably as good as it gets for a desktop, at least for myself. It can be configured to get out of my way and let me do my work in peace. I even have tooltips shut off globally. The strength of a desktop isn't how "pretty" it looks in screenshots. That has nothing to do with real-world productivity. The strength is in its configurability. I can only imagine how many people will jump ship to something else after having a taste of Win 11. Once they realize their tool doesn't work for them anymore, they will have no choice but to find a different tool that does work. Most will probably switch to OSX, but there will probably be a few that will give Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint a try and never look back. With virtualization, it's almost a no brainer to drop Windows as a host OS and to just use it for windows-only apps. Even gaming is getting better on Linux.