Since both are Debian derivatives, I imagine that both include synclient(1). No, it's not a GUI — but that's better, because you can just put the right command into your login scripts, and you know that it'll execute, and never get deleted because a desktop environment decided to change its config file format.
> Want a really good, free git GUI client? Sorry, not on Linux.
Magit is awesome.
> Sad to say but Windows, for all its faults, does work.
I have a couple of Windows machines, and I don't feel that they work. Swallowed keystrokes & clicks, ads — no thank you!
You just lost 99% of the userbase.
It happens just rarely enough to make me feel insane, but it never happens on my work windows machine or my mac. Maybe I'm subconsciously sabotaging my copies on linux.
This is the most bizarre thing I encounter, but it's missing the hundred other tiny warts I ignore because I "know what I signed up for" using linux as my daily driver.
And then there are the missing apps. Want a really good, free git GUI client? Sorry, not on Linux. It's git FFS, Linux should have great dev tools. Same with file managers.
I used to be an Amiga user, I'm a C developer and like tinkering. But I also want something that just works for the basics. Sad to say but Windows, for all its faults, does work. Visual Studio does work. And all the open source apps I use like Kicad are on Windows.
I really want to move to Linux, but it's too much work to make it work. These days I have better things to do with my computer.