Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch
I have used Linux as my primary desktop system for over ten years. Usability really sucks. I&#x27;m not talking about a new UX model, systemd vs sysv, or wayland vs xorg. I&#x27;m talking about not needing to know about unix-isms to run a desktop operating system. Gnome and KDE are okay-ish now.<p>Honestly the best desktop system for linux I&#x27;ve seen is Deepin <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepin.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepin.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a> , which is produced by a Chinese based group and marketed mainly at Chinese audiences.<p>It installs updates on reboot, which removes many corner cases for desktop users. It has a nice dedicated admin panel that feels like a single interface rather than 20 different panels glued together. It focuses on efficient desktop use rather than some new hotness UI concept which Unity and Gnome3 both got infatuated with. The desktop interface is fast and gets out of your way, but providing useful quick tools to open, close, and switch apps.<p>Why do I think governments haven&#x27;t used more open source? Because we care more about systemd vs sysv then a single good consistent UI. Because we think writing desktop components in javascript and python will give good (enough) performance that won&#x27;t feel sluggish; hint, they won&#x27;t. Because coders (often) care more about how their code looks, using the slow interpreted language they know, or &quot;getting the job done&quot; (as they define it), then they do about concrete performance evaluation, benchmarking, and end user use cases and long term person off the street testing.<p>Sorry, that was kinda a rant. But seriously, checkout the deepin desktop. New users can be really productive in it quickly and maintain it themselves.