> I'd always argued that GNOME/Unity was garbage Mostly agree, except one Unity feature that never came back in any other DE. What Canonical called the "HUD" -

> I'd always argued that GNOME/Unity was garbage Mostly agree, except one Unity feature that never came back in any other DE. What Canonical called the "HUD" - being able to search through application menus, like you can on macOS from the help menu (and now from spotlight on macOS 26). Instead everyone (Except KDE) decided to go backwards in terms of desktop UI design, and started shoving everything into stupid hamburger menus trying to look like Android because "Convergence" was the big buzz word of the time, and everyone (including Microsoft) thought we'd all just start using one device - a phone/tablet/PC hybrid device. Unfortunately, KDE was also going through its transition to KDE 4 at this time which eventually did get much better but it was rough going for a while. This was the time period that I moved to OS X, and have been on mac ever since. Ironically Apple is now going down the same road of missteps that the Linux DEs did back then, and would have pushed me back to linux by now if I could just get a laptop on par with the apple silicon macbooks.