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sweeter | 9 months ago

And if they think that this version of Linux "isn't janky" but regular Linux is, than idk what to say.

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With WSL you can use “Linux the good parts” (command line tools, efficient-enough paradigms for fork() servers) and completely avoid X Windows, the Wayland death spiral, 100 revisions of Gnome and KDE that not so much reinvent the wheel but instead show us why the wheel is not square or triangular…

const_cast|9 months ago

It's all opinion of course, but IMO Windows is the most clumsy and unintuitive desktop experience out there. We're all just used to the jank upon jank that we think it's intuitive.

KDE is much more cohesive, stable, and has significantly more features.

ahartmetz|9 months ago

>the Wayland death spiral

That sounds like Wayland getting worse, but it's actually been slowly improving and it's pretty good now. Only took a decade+ to get there.

jchw|9 months ago

It blows my mind that people can complain about the direction KDE is going when trying to paint a picture about how it's so much nicer to use Windows. I know the boiling frog experiment is fake, but just checking: are you sure the water isn't getting a little uncomfortably warm in the Windows pool right now?

tyingq|9 months ago

I know you're saying you don't have to use it, but for any that didn't know, WSL2 does ship with it's own Wayland. And it does have some weird bugs.

xnickb|9 months ago

After having used i3 and Sway, Windows is surprisingly bad at handling windows for an OS called Windows.

It requires a bit of work to setup to your liking of course, but hey, at least you have an option to set it up to your liking

the__alchemist|9 months ago

Compiling and testing cross-platform software for Linux lately (Ubuntu and similar)... You can't even launch an application or script without CLI. Bad UX, IMO. For these decisions, There are always reasons, a justification, something about security. I don't buy it.