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> The only reason I and a lot of other people use Linux on desktops is because everything we work on runs on Linux servers

That may be true, but there are also a lot of people (myself included) that just prefer a Linux OS. I like having a choice of desktop environments. I like that a huge amount of software is freely available and just a "suda apt-get install" away. I like that there's no shitty bloat-ware on my systems.




I truly think this is a great idea. Literally the only advantage imo of OSx over Ubuntu to me is beautiful UX. Theres so many little tweaks and customizations. Everything else in Ubuntu is superior imo so I still use it.

Or maybe even an 'easy to use' theming system?

I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX.

I know the Ubuntu and Linux team have way too much going on but this a wish post lol.

200 bucks for a well UXed OS with support I would pay that tomm!!


> I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX.

Not really, you're a few clicks a way from installing KDE, Gnome or XFCE on any Linux and you can start hacking on it after some looks at the docs. Nowadays there should be plenty of HTML & CSS inside both Gnome and KDE themes... you just need the free time to waste on this!

Problem is not making the most gorgeous looking and butter-smooth animated desktop environment. Problem is you can't freaking expect drag'n'drop two work between any 2 applications because they are all so different and incompatible, or you can't have nice experiences with anything that need to integrate with the file manager because you don't just have one "windows explorer" or "finder", you have Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar etc. And the zillion things that "half work": like, try copy pasting a folder open by ssh in Nautilus file manager... the damn idiotic thing will do a round trip through your machine and back instead of sensibly translating your operation into ssh commands...

A Linux Desktop Environment I'd pay for wouldn't have more diversity and hackability, it would have less, but all possible UI interactions and inter-program integration would be thoroughly tested and debugged. Also things like hot-plugging in/out your machine into displays and projector. All UI things that now work would work reliably! And customizatons would be a simple right-click/cmd+click + "options..." away on any UI element, not having to dig through pages and pages of settings in a damn "Control-panel-like" thinggy, or to install a buggy "Tweak tool".

As stable as Linux is for server applications, all Linux Desktop Environments I've ever used are unstable as fuck and I can get them to crash/freeze/delay-for-minutes probably once a day.

Ubuntu's unity had a right goal, but their head is up their asses - it's buggy, annoying to both power-users and new users, and pretty unhackable/obscure for non-professionals underneath. I don't event have a simple on/off toggle for "group windows in launcher task bar" which is 2 clicks away on Windows.

Their vision but "done right" and with enough respect for "regular power-users" ("power-users" who don't want to edit config files or install buggy tweak tools, that just want the advanced options baked in and thorughly tested!) is something to pay for...


I see what you're saying and agree. Just a system that makes everything compatible on the desktop so I can focus on my work without having to go through a major hassle to accomplish things.

Just a minimal bug desktop user experience with a reason amount of configurability for power users and if you want to go deeper there's always the command line.




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