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Who do you imagine this "Linux Desktop" is, that you attribute lack of interest to?

Various groups make desktop environments that may be used on Linux, as diverse as KDE, Gnome, Chrome, and Android. It could possibly make sense to complain about one or other of them, or even several. As it is your complaint is entirely nonsensical, a category error like saying red is too hot.



> Who do you imagine this "Linux Desktop" is

The community of people who make and distribute Linux distributions and software intended for the Desktop use case, when taken as a whole.

> Various groups make desktop environments that may be used on Linux, as diverse as KDE, Gnome, Chrome, and Android.

Calling Android or ChromeOS a Linux Desktop is incredibly disingenuous.

> It could possibly make sense to complain about one or other of them, or even several.

Every distribution has the same problems because they are all built with more or less the same hodgepodges of desperately developed software.


> Every distribution has the same problems because they are all built with more or less the same hodgepodges of desperately developed software.

In other words, slightly better than trying to change system settings in Windows 10?


Well no. The new settings panels in Windows 10 certainly do suck ass and contribute to the general UI fragmentation, but the systems that are the foundation of the Windows operating system are not disparately developed hodgepodges. The same cannot be said for Linux Desktop, although with SystemD taking over everything that might not remain true indefinitely.




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