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1183 points robenkleene | 1 comments | 20 Oct 20 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.454s | source
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AlexandrB ◴[20 Oct 20 16:27 UTC] No.24839296[source]▶
Both major consumer OS vendors seem hell-bent on bringing the OS layer under their complete control. As a power user, it's very frustrating. Meanwhile "desktop" Linux still kind of sucks, just like it did 10 years ago. I don't have much hope of seeing a compelling, unified UX out of Linux in my lifetime.
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pmarreck ◴[20 Oct 20 16:56 UTC] No.24839695[source]▶
I'm kind of glad Linux doesn't have a "unified UX". I mean, the MacOS of 15+ years ago iron-fisted it, and it was right most of the time, but glaringly not in a few cases (simple examples, the ability to reshape a window by any corner or edge was conspicuously absent on Mac for a long time, as was the right mouse button).

Best to let a bunch of free ideas duke it out.

Currently using Ubuntu 20.10 beta (releases in 2 days!) on ZFS on root, and got all my dev and games working, so I'm pretty happy with it thus far. The ability to roll back to any point at which an apt install was made or attempted via zsys' integration with ZFS snapshots is nice. And ZFS is just... as glorious as an enterprise-class filesystem, basically. And all "for free".

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1. millstone ◴[20 Oct 20 19:31 UTC] No.24841455[source]▶
Consistent UI compounds. If every app picked its own keyboard shortcuts and "duked it out", we would lose the thing that makes keyboard shortcuts useful.