> Linux is hard This is a bit patronizing. I'm a Windows/OS X user who used Linux as a daily driver OS longer than he's used Windows or OS X. I came to (Soft L

> Linux is hard This is a bit patronizing. I'm a Windows/OS X user who used Linux as a daily driver OS longer than he's used Windows or OS X. I came to (Soft Landing) Linux from Minix on Amiga, and AmigaOS before that. It's not that Linux is hard, I feel more comfortable with it than I do in either Windows or Linux, but I'm tired of messing with things and not having available common apps I desire. And yeah, there's OSS alternatives, but I find them almost always awful (GIMP and Wireshark are exceptions, though). It's not that I find KDE too hard, it's that it's hideous (just my opinion) and it too closely emulates the stuff I like least about Windows. And yeah, you can change its appearance but I'm tired of messing with things, or having to tweak UIs to look right because they were designed to function with the default theme. Every year or so, I take another look at desktop Linux to see if it will meet my needs. I want to go back, but there's just not enough there for me to pull the trigger. But God, I want to.