Gnome 2 or XFCE4 with the autoconfiguring X.Org instead of X11 was good enough since the 2.6 Linux release, FreeBSD 4.3 or since OpenBSD 4.6. OpenBSD with toadd/hotplugd brings the same capabilities on device automounting as Linux without a dependency nightmare. If you simlink /vol to /run/media/$USER, you magically get UDEV-like mounts. Add tray-app from packages and you'll almost get the same usability as Ubuntu on device automounting. From that everything went downhill on desktops, with tons of bloat to do basic things.