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Re:I’ve used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never ... by kitsunesoba on Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:55PM (#18563913)
Maybe if you’re OK with the defaults on whatever DE the distro ships with. Once you start trying to bend the stock DE to your will or install some other DE/WM setup, you’re likely going to be faced with an endless rabbit hole of tweaking and configuration to get the result you’re seeking. Your only hope for escaping this is finding a DE with defaults you like or forcing yourself to adjust to whatever bits of incongruence that exist between whichever DE and your personal preferences.

This is the problem I’ve faced with Linux at least. I’ve been able to achieve something close-ish to what I want in a Linux desktop setup, but no matter what there’s always a list of papercuts that I can’t really do much about short of writing my own DE (good luck with that with the insanity of X and the bad docs of wayland/libweston/etc).

Re:I’ve used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never ... by madez on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:56PM (#18564480)
You are comparing apples with oranges. If you tried to modify the behaviour of the desktop of other OS'es to the extent as you want with Linux, then that would be a fair comparison.

If you want it to look and behaviour just like Windows 7 or Mac OS iDon'tCare, then you might be lucky and find a premade theme that does that work for you.

Re:I’ve used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never ... by qihqi on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:30PM (#18564219)
Same can be said for OSX or Windows, if it is even possible to use a different DE/WM than the default one.