I totally sympathize with the author here, having tried Linux on the desktop multiple times for the last 20+ years. Back then the problems I repeatedly ran into were around hardware support, stability of the desktop environment, near total lack of documentation, system upgrades via built in package manager totally breaking the OS at random and fairly often, and way too much choice for literally everything imaginable. (So much fragmented attention means there’s not enough deep focus on one really good, well tested and bullet proof set of options, tools and integrations.)<p>20 years later the same problems remain.<p>And that makes me sad, because I have zero faith in Apple or Microsoft when it comes to privacy and security, so I need a seriously competitive Linux desktop experience really bad.<p>But even after 20 years, it’s still a shitshow.
"I keep trying to fit a Ford gearbox on to my Buick and it just doesn't seem to fit properly"<p><i>My first hurdle teaching me a valuable lesson was getting VS Code to work properly.</i><p>There's a very, very old website called 'Linux is not Windows' which details this failing mindset of Windows users. Why should VS Code work on Linux?? Next thing you'll be wanting Office365 (or whatever it's called today) to work on Linux too.<p>Stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. If you want to run Windows, then just run Windows. If you want to run Linux then just run Linux. Your thinning hair will thank you.
"WSL (running Arch)"<p>Why not Ubuntu ? Arch is not for newbies afaik.
Anyway , the line "I switched from Mac to Windows a few years ago, right when they announced WSL integration. As an early adopter I instantly fell in love with it, even with WSL1. " makes me think that this individual has some issues (paid ?). MacOSX is a UNIX but the windowing system is not X11. And i do not think that development on windows is easier than on MacOSX.