On 2017-08-01 09:05 AM, David Ing isss--- via talk wrote:
Hugh, the question from Evan was about experiences.
Well, you're certainly going to have a lot of different experiences with separate root partitions: each one needing to be kept up to date, having to remember that you need this package in that install, weird things happening to ~/.config (if it was shared amongst several desktops), … I just did the Unity → Gnome switch in advance of Ubuntu 17.10. Gnome's gone worryingly minimalist (but naturally, no faster¹) recently: locked modal dialogues (o hai Macintosh System 6) that can't be moved out the way², a top bar with nothing useful in it², a file manager with single, locked file type associations³, a desktop lock/login manager that expects you to swipe the mouse up the desk³, no application menus unless they implement the tiny ‘≡’ menu³, browser-based desktop integration so tight that if a Gnome Shell application hits a JavaScript problem and locks, your system (incl networking) locks up³, and a virtual-desktop pager than doesn't preview screen contents so you have to frantically page through all your desktops to find the window you want³. It still works better for me than KDE, though. Stewart --- ¹: I just realized that the computer I had 30 years ago had roughly 0.00312% the processing power, 0.000191% the RAM and 0.0000356% the disk storage of the machine I have now. Yet that old machine could power on and be inside a word processor (admittedly, running from a 16 KB "sideways ROM") less than two seconds later ²: fixable with tweak tool ³: not fixable, AFAIK.