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I'm a SWE, I've been a DBA and a sysadmin, and I've been using Linux on servers for a long time, but on the desktop I'm just a user who doesn't care to understa
by hot_gril 4y ago
I'm a SWE, I've been a DBA and a sysadmin, and I've been using Linux on servers for a long time, but on the desktop I'm just a user who doesn't care to understand the inner workings of the stuff that's supposed to just work for me. This KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Cinnamon, X vs Wayland, Unity, MATE, Plasma, whatever GUI stuff is way too confusing and not worth my time. Just sticking to the default in Ubuntu doesn't help much when even that keeps changing a ton, which is unbelievable. Why do they get users accustomed to something only to swap it out?
- klodolph 4y agoI feel like I’ve got conflicting desires here. On one hand, I just want everything to work, and everything to stay the same, just like what you describe. On the other hand, there are a dozen or two dozen packages which I want always up to date. Most of them are development tools. Any distro which is good at one is bad at the other.
- hot_gril 4y agoI'd expect that the most stable distro could run the latest versions of those tools too. Do the tools depend on the latest desktop environment or something?