[suyjuris]

There is something to be said for leaving a platform if you do not like the direction it seems to be headed in, even if you could compensate for the issues in the short term. Otherwise you might sign up for years of incrementally increasing misery.

Once Windows installed updates against their users' preference I switched my main desktop to Linux – this was a significant amount of work but has saved me a lot of frustration over the past years. Similarly, once I experienced UI stutter in Gnome and noticed that it moved towards Javascript, I switched to i3. Again, huge setup cost (e.g. I had to implement alt-tab behaviour myself), but things ran smoothly since.

[jckahn]

That’s fair. My experience with Ubuntu is that it’s basically fine for what I need a distro to do. I’d like to stay on this train because at the end of the day I just need my computer to work reliably. Ubuntu is not perfect, but it’s the devil I know. :)