For my use cases (a stable environment for writing and running systems code locally, browsing the internet, reading pdfs, etc), desktop Linux peaked about ten y

For my use cases (a stable environment for writing and running systems code locally, browsing the internet, reading pdfs, etc), desktop Linux peaked about ten years ago. That was back before systemd/wayland, and back when deleting pulseaudio just made everything work better. Also, minimal window managers like evilwm were more tenable, since the only useful thing that really used the notification area/dbus was wifi. Anyway, being behind on the spiral of instability I’ve seen with recent Linux desktop environments seems like a feature, not a bug.