Windows: Choice But No Choice

“I know that there are other window managers for Windows but
they are little more than themes compared to what we have. We Linux
users have thousands of versions of Linux that you can run on
multiple types of hardware with dozens of different desktop
environments on top of them, or none at all if your really cool.
All of them customizable to the hilt and we’re still not happy. It
seems like we are the spoiled child in the 31 Flavors who can’t
find anything they like while poor Windows users have no idea that
‘ice cream’ comes in anything other than vanilla, and a sad vanilla
at that.

“We have gotten fat on the bounty of choices and drunk with the
power of functionality they provide us. Go use a generic NT, 2000
or XP setup for a week and then try and tell me that KDE, GNOME,
Xfce, Enlightenment etc. are really that much better or worse than
each other. Because compared to the Microsoft window manager in any
version of Windows, any Linux window manager blows it away. Many
authors, Bruce Byfield stands out in my mind, have told and re-told
their issues with, loves and hates of competing desktop
environments to the point of ad nauseam.

“Give me a desktop environment I do not like on top of a Linux
version I cannot stand and it will still be a thousand times better
than any Windows machine you could put in front of me. And I will
make a bet that even if forced to use the desktop environment and
distro I do not like I would still be able to change enough of the
settings and download whatever programs I couldn’t live without and
make it enough to my liking that I could live with it, happily. I
could not do that with Windows even if I wanted too.”

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