[Dracophoenix]

> I've heard others say this (and was a "loyal advocate" of Windows for around 2 decades myself), but the reality is they simply do not care. You are merely a single user out of several billion.

What changed your outlook? Did you get burned by Microsoft?

[userbinator]

The gradual decline of quality, and increasing hostility towards the user once they went from software to services.

[cerved]

Probably they tried a real operating system.

[userbinator]

Linux and the other unices are great for their CLI, but GUIs seem more like an afterthought on that side.

[adhamsalama]

I find KDE Plasma to be much better than Windows and MacOS.

[cosmic_cheese]

While Plasma is among the better desktop options, it’s still something of an acquired taste, being a significantly different flavor from either mainstream commercial OS (and particularly un-Mac-like). I know some like it, but having used it on various single-purpose machines of my own I don’t think I could make it the desktop of my daily driver or work machines.

[adhamsalama]

Windows is very similar to Plasma and copies it sometimes, but is much worse.

[cwnyth]

Hard disagree. I find that Linux (particularly but not exclusively Gnome) is actually even better than Windows or Mac OS. I hate having to use Windows or Mac again for how clumsy and poorly thought out they are. It took how long before they finally got Window snapping? And file search is still atrocious on both, and getting worse on Windows.

It always seemed to me the people who deride Linux's desktop GUI are those who actually never bothered to use it, especially not seriously in the past decade.

[xigoi]

I’ve been using COSMIC for the past month and it definitely doesn’t feel like an afterthought. Unlike Windows, it has window tiling, for one.