> compared to modern Linux DE's ... it (Windows) blows them out of water when it cames to both smoothness and resource consumption. I'm not going to debate th

> compared to modern Linux DE's ... it (Windows) blows them out of water when it cames to both smoothness and resource consumption. I'm not going to debate this, but I'll just try to assign blame. It goes one place: X. As long as they all build on X, things will be suboptimal and I can't wait for initiatives and projects like Wayland and Mir gain more traction. If you doubt anything I say about X, please watch this youtube video which has one of the key X-maintainers complain about how bad it really is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6PFjoYuml0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6PFjoYuml0