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You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations. A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be rand

You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations. A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be random is the GTK fonts throughout the UI changed to a mono-spaced font regardless of what the control panel showed. It "resolved itself" within a few weeks. I don't know if it was an update that caused and subsequently resolved the issue, or something else I did. This was just one of many hair-pulling examples I ran into across KDE Plasma and Gnome on Fedora. I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS.

Dah00n 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I don't think those frustrations are comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser. I also find it funny that you mention problems with fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows.
- Rimintil 3y ago
  > fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows. Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS. I don't see Linux as superior with font handling. Certainly lacks on the rendering side of things (DPI etc). > comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser Wouldn't know. I use Win 11 Pro so those updates don't seem to have come down to it (yet?) and use Win 10 Ent at work where those will never arrive.
  - dlivingston 3y ago
    > Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS How so? I use Windows 10/11 at work and macOS at home, and Mac's font rendering is light-years ahead of Windows IMO. The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC.
    - Rimintil 3y ago
      > The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC. Nah, it was for the color accuracy of _classic_ Mac OS. Windows caught up in the Vista timeframe.
bsder 3y ago
> I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS. Agreed. However, I can continue to feed the Microsoft maw, or I can make a different choice. I choose to tell Microsoft to pound sand.

Dah00n 3y ago

I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I don't think those frustrations are comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser. I also find it funny that you mention problems with fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows.

Rimintil 3y ago
> fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows. Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS. I don't see Linux as superior with font handling. Certainly lacks on the rendering side of things (DPI etc). > comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser Wouldn't know. I use Win 11 Pro so those updates don't seem to have come down to it (yet?) and use Win 10 Ent at work where those will never arrive.
- dlivingston 3y ago
  > Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS How so? I use Windows 10/11 at work and macOS at home, and Mac's font rendering is light-years ahead of Windows IMO. The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC.
  - Rimintil 3y ago
    > The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC. Nah, it was for the color accuracy of _classic_ Mac OS. Windows caught up in the Vista timeframe.

bsder 3y ago

> I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS. Agreed. However, I can continue to feed the Microsoft maw, or I can make a different choice. I choose to tell Microsoft to pound sand.