Subj : What's Your Go-to OS
To   : MRO
From : Accession
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 17:22:50

Hey MRO!

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:20:00 -0600, you wrote:

 > well it was easy to change around with a 3rd party. i think i just 
 > rigged mine to auto login

Sure, but 3rd party stuff shouldn't be necessary for any desktop environment in order to make it work comfortably with a desktop PC. They all thought tablets were going to take over the world, and they didn't.

At that time, I remember Gnome had all icons (like a tablet would) and no "start" menu. I think at first, they brought the start menu back, and then they eventually turned all the large icons into regular icons that could be placed in a taskbar/docker thing again.

Windows did something similar around the Windows 8 release, and then went backpeddled in 8.1 to at least offer an option for a normal non-touchscreen desktop style again.

I remember that time quite well, as I was dabbling with Linux for awhile before that just as a fun hobby, but right around that time was when I ended up shifting all of my BBS/FTN, plex and other server related stuff over to CLI Linux, for good.

Now I just keep Windows for gaming. While Linux is catching up (slowly), it still has a ways to go when it comes to high-end gaming.

Regards,
Nick

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