/tech/ - Technology

>>13141
The Linux desktop is currently replacing the old display-server X11 with the new one Wayland.
I think X11 might be something like 40 years old and predates linux. So it's not like "crap" gets rewritten every couple of years.

>it's getting shittier every time.
A lot of stuff has to be adapted to the new display server, and that's causing some transitional bugs. But if you compare it to windows, it's looking pretty good.

>linux is just the project car version of mac os
Not really comparable, Linux is very modular, runs an pretty much any hardware, while macos is monolithic and only runs on a very small hardware selection.
Apple probably wants to kill off macos and convert their entire product-line to ios. If you want any of the power-user features you will need to think different or switch to linux.

Xfce and LXDE are working great for me, dunno what you're talking about…

Because real ones use I3/DWM

>>13141
speaking from a programmer's perspective, there is no reliable API or good low level library for graphics on Linux. The only "solution" libraries are bloated, hacked together and incredibly complex.

Both GTK and QT are poor solutions to a lack of a consistent and sensible graphics API. Even expert GTK programmers hate GTK.

>>13141
Have you tried not using the latest gnomeslop? Why would you need anything more than XClock and a couple of XTerms? FVWM is 90s yet it's still the most advanced desktop. Unironically the only progress happening during the last decade was shoving inane freedesktop standards into every system component and making everything a mobile UI.