FWIW, they did give a valid use case and a valid issue in their initial post -- regarding configuration of distro vs. desktop environment. However, I don't know

FWIW, they did give a valid use case and a valid issue in their initial post -- regarding configuration of distro vs. desktop environment. However, I don't know how valid that problem is in many Linux desktop environments today. There have been leaps and bounds in terms of usability and smoothing out the user experiences on Linux desktop environments lately.