On Linux
I use Windows 11 to game and Linux Mint to work, on two distinct machines. I've customized Mint fairly thoroughly and pretty much got rid of its very, erm, "Dad's basic laptop" UI design over a few months.
Bottom line is, I'm satisfied. I don't need a new shell, I don't need a tiling window manager, I don't need to gut Adwaita from the main install - I'm a big fat casual, I know, but it works for me.
Compare and contrast to some colleagues of mine:
Week One: "OHMIGOD, Pop_OS is the best thing since sliced bread! Never going back to Ubuntu!"
Week Two: "Aw, man, I have the tiniest reservation about System76's update schedule, I'm going back to Fedora 32!"
Week Three: "Fuuuuck, why can't Fedora have Pacman?! I'm moving to Manjaro, it's got the package manager I like!"
Week Four: "Man, the Manjaro guys are corporate assholes! Arch, here I come!"
One Month Later: "I've finally wrangled my Arch install into something I sort of tolerate, but I miss the security of rolling releases! Ubuntu!"
Three months later, my colleagues are wondering why I haven't deployed other distros to the call centre guys.
Do they seriously think non-computer-savvy Boomers could keep up with them?!
This is my one and only issue with the Linux ecosystem. Linger a while and you realize how flighty and cultlike some users can be. It's not everyone, Canonical and Mint have awesome teams - but Manjaro's is, erm...
Can I call a distro's community cringe? I think it's fair game, right?
