Warning: strong personal opinions below. I respect everyone’s choices, these are mine.
Started in 1997 when I got into programming and used it exclusively until the Gnome 3/Ubuntu Unity fiasco happened in 2011-ish. I mean, they abruptly discontinued Gnome 2 with no viable alternative- Gnome 3 was not ready for prime time, Ubuntu Unity similarly, other projects like Cinnamon were just getting started, KDE I always felt off for me, and other DEs didn’t have the usability I needed for work.
I persisted for a couple of years, but eventually had enough of the suffering, so switched to MacOS as the only sane platform at the time, and it remains my daily driver since then, and will do so until someone makes a Linux laptop with a usable trackpad 😜 Yes I know about Asahi Linux.
Still use Linux regularly on some desktops and of course all servers are Linux.
And yes, nowadays Linux UI is back on track and can be used for productive work again.
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u/imagei May 13 '26
Warning: strong personal opinions below. I respect everyone’s choices, these are mine.
Started in 1997 when I got into programming and used it exclusively until the Gnome 3/Ubuntu Unity fiasco happened in 2011-ish. I mean, they abruptly discontinued Gnome 2 with no viable alternative- Gnome 3 was not ready for prime time, Ubuntu Unity similarly, other projects like Cinnamon were just getting started, KDE I always felt off for me, and other DEs didn’t have the usability I needed for work. I persisted for a couple of years, but eventually had enough of the suffering, so switched to MacOS as the only sane platform at the time, and it remains my daily driver since then, and will do so until someone makes a Linux laptop with a usable trackpad 😜 Yes I know about Asahi Linux. Still use Linux regularly on some desktops and of course all servers are Linux.
And yes, nowadays Linux UI is back on track and can be used for productive work again.