[hsn915]

This is depressing actually.

Instead of working to simplify the desktop, people are pouring energy into solutions that further complexity everything.

I don't understand the comments on this thread that express excitement and enthusiasm.

To this day, the UX of the linux desktop is subpar. This is caused by the complexity involved in running a gnu/linux system.

We do not need additional layers of complexity.

We need to collapse the layers and simplify the architecture of everything.

[taeric]

Pretty sure this is a non sequitur. This isn't a desktop environment, but a desktop application to manage containers. Right?

[jeffh]

I feel you hit reply on the wrong thread ... this seems to have nothing to do with Rancher Desktop?!?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Rancher Desktop is

> an open source app for desktop Kubernetes and container management on Mac, Windows and Linux

What does that have to do with Linux desktop UX or running a GNU/Linux system?

I could see objecting to k8s and containers in general on the basis of too many layers, but by the time someone's looking at using Rancher Desktop they've probably made that decision already. (For instance, this caught my eye because at work we ship everything in containers. Even if I disliked that, there's no way I'm ever moving the whole company off containerization, so I want the best tools to do the job I have.)

[hsn915]

I was meta-commenting about other comments in this thread that imply the future of desktop is all containers and that this would be a good thing.