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Re:Ask HN: What did Linux not do right? by anta40 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:59PM (#33049034)
Could you explain more about about the "messy desktop experience"?

Many years ago, around 2006-2008, my PC exclusively ran Slackware after saying goodbye to XP. It wasn't really beefy, so I installed FVWM. I could do all the university assignments on it. Internet browsing, multimedia, USB plug n play, printing etc etc worked fine. Guess my use cases were kinda minimalistic.

These days I mostly work on Mac, but still have a headless Linux PC running for personal tinkering. Probably I need to have another taste of Linux desktop experience :D

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Re:Ask HN: What did Linux not do right? by heavyset_go on Sunday October 02, 2022 @12:15AM (#33052788)
> These days I mostly work on Mac, but still have a headless Linux PC running for personal tinkering. Probably I need to have another taste of Linux desktop experience :D

Try out modern Plasma/KDE, it's actually really nice. I say this as someone who has disliked KDE for a very long time before using Plasma.

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