I've been systematically looking at different Linux GUI environments, on and off, for a while now. I currently use macOS on both my desktop and laptop but have Linux and Windows virtual machines. I might switch to Linux for the host OS at some point. The thing I am finding to be lacking in all the Linux GUIs I've tried so far is, surprisingly, some basic usability issues. It's things like target areas for the mouse that are too small. For example, I have to go back and forth a few times to get the mouse on the right spot to resize a window. There is often a lack of feedback. For example, you click to run and application and nothing happens. You don't know whether it errored out immediately or it's just being slow to start up. There tend to be a lack of keyboard shortcuts (compared to the Mac.) What would really be nice is keyboard shortcuts that don't conflict with the terminal. So you can, for example, use keyboard shortcuts to cut and paste between the terminal and the GUI. Too often, things just don't work and stay that way too long. For example, in Ubuntu 12 to 14, and possibly even more recently (I left Ubuntu after 14), TCP/IP would not work if you set it up in the GUI. You had to use the command line.
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