Gräßlin: Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7

Posted Jul 15, 2016 18:19 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Gräßlin: Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7 by ewan
Parent article: Gräßlin: Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7

> The current state of the Linux desktop is bad, it's worse than it was, and it's a lot worse than the alternatives.

I disagree on all three points, especially on the second one -- The other two are a lot more subjective.

I suspect there's a certain amount of rose-colored memory involved when it comes to comparing things as they are to as they used to be. Despite the modern desktop being an order of magnitude more complex (and capable) than the old desktop environments of yesteryear, things largely JustWork(tm) without having to hand-fiddle with anything.

Sure, things are *different* but that in of itself doesn't make them worse (or better).

This things-have-never-been-better situation goes for the entire software stack.

(BTW, I am writing this as someone who currently uses Gnome3 at home, Gnome2 at work, and has been using Linux as his primary desktop/compute environment for nearly twenty years..)