[goldorak]

Using Linux for 25 years, I never understand the complains about the desktop at least for me has been the best just because I can pick, choose and tweak (I love XFCE and BSPWM). My only issues was pre-2000, before mplayer there was no decent video player for Linux after that mplayer was really ahead of the competition (first one with framedropping AFAIK) It was also rough not having flash support in mozilla but that got solved and forgotten long time ago.

I worked a little bit with windows and OSX. For me Windows is a pain to maintain, everything is just obscure, I can't tweak the desktop to fit my needs and the worst thing is just see how fans and resources goes crazy and I cannot find a reason for that misbehaving. Not flexible at all.

OSX is a little bit nicer for me but still closed, not flexible and for some reason consumes resources like crazy.

We all have different experiences I think familiarity is the strongest factor.

[k8sToGo]

>tweak

I don't want to tweak. I just want to work and things should just mostly work out of the box.

Whenever I try Linux Desktop I end up tweaking a lot.

[MrDresden]

Tweaking is usually not needed if care has been made in selecting the right hardware. In most cases things work out of the box if that selection was done correctly.

Going further, workstation tweaking is a power feature, for those that want or need it.

[freedomben]

If you don't want to do any tweaking, my experience has been best in Fedora. out of the box it's highly usable, and unless I'm building a workstation I don't change anything. The things that I do tweak now are just settings in the "Settings" app and the gnome-tweak-tool.