Comment by uhtred
3 years ago
Have you tried using a Linux desktop? I personally find that it doesn't have all the negative things you mention.
3 years ago
Have you tried using a Linux desktop? I personally find that it doesn't have all the negative things you mention.
It has fewer, but unfortunately the mentality of developers believing they should be able to tell the user what to do is so pervasive that even FOSS developers do it. From what I can tell, GNOME is the most prevalent Linux Desktop environment and it is notorious for this. Ubuntu is, if not the most common distro, the most commonly recommended one and Canonical is also notorious for forcing things on the user they don't want like Snaps and auto updating.
Avoid desktop environments like GNOME. Stray from the guided path and use bare window managers and other alternative software. The additional effort required is overblown to a ridiculous degree.
The software does what I say, when I say. If it doesn't, it gets wiped from my system.
Another little picky example: gnome-terminal is my favorite of the various spiffed-up xterms. Start up a KDE session, and gnome-terminal does not appear in the menu even though the full GNOME is installed on the system. I have to run it from the menu's search function.
At least, this is the case on Ubuntu Focal. Anyone else using KDE and gnome-terminal?
ETA: I can't even make a quicklaunch for it in KDE.
I use Fedora+Gnome, and I haven't ever felt that I am being told what to do. Plus you can totally just install Fedora with a different desktop if that is the case.