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No, Linux desktop will never will be polished, but it's as free as it can be. I use xfce4 as a window manager, which is quite simple, but featureful. Started with KDE, and never liked Gnome.

I've been using linux as desktop OS since 1998. Started with redhat, then changed to debian in 1999. For a long time I went with Debian, but there was a time when there was no new OS release for 2 years, which pushed me towards Arch Linux. I'm going back now.
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Mountain Man 2mo ago 💬 1

All very interesting.

I never liked Gnome either. Felt odd. I always used KDE.

I don't think I've ever used xfce or arch. I used Ubuntu and that felt odd to me, as well. I think I just locked in to the Redhat family long ago and stuck with it through the changes.

I just closed my website and decommissioned the servers. They went from Redhat to Centos to Rocky over the years.

Now I have a Rocky development VPS I'm playing around with.

I have several Linux variations on portable SSDs that I boot to at home for fun. I also load up the virtualization stack and play around.

I've thought about doing development work on Linux desktop - Visual Studio code and the iPhone/Android simulators - but I don't know how well the mobile simulators are supported.

Everything works well on Mac OS so I've stuck with it all these years for my main desktop.

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Lez 2mo ago

As the saying goes, use the linux distribution your friends are using. :)

I think iphone development is unsupported in many levels on linux.