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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by gitgud on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:06PM (#25107883)
> "You couldn't pay me to put up with the massively inferior environment of any of the Linux DEs at this point."

Sounds like you're using Visual Studio... which at this point is closer to an Operating System than an IDE...

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by TylerE on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:09PM (#25107901)
Why do you say that? I just hate jank, and KDE, Gnome, and XFCE are all janky as hell in their own infuriating ways.

PS: I haven't had any version of Visual Studio installed since about 2004.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by blockmeifyoucan on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:58AM (#25108924)
Can you give examples of what you disliked in each of KDE, GNOME and XFCE?
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by gitgud on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:03AM (#25108231)
Ahh, my mistake, I misread your initial comment to be about IDE's.

I would encourage you to try Gnome again. I use it everyday on a 7 year old laptop with Ubuntu, and it is impressively stable and smooth and a pleasure to multi-task with vertical windows.

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