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I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday December 23 2016, @10:51PM
My only wish is that Ubuntu would make a flashback version that is standalone, instead of jumping through hoops to get it.
Yeah, but that would involve admitting that maybe not everybody loves Unity and may not want to use it. And that's not a message they want to send.
Although they do KDE and XFCE versions as well. So I guess I'm not really familiar with what non-Unity GNOME would get me over XFCE. Haven't used GNOME since that whole Unity thing dropped...6 and a half years ago? Dang.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"