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I use KDE and can confirm, unfortunately, that (at least on my setup) I have encountered many bugs pertaining to graphics. I also often get PulseAudio issues like the sound skipping when the system is under heavier-than-usual momentary load. I can't run Chrome developer tools without it crashing inside the driver every few minutes. Mounting an NTFS partition works on second try every time. I've used GNOME previously, which was too memory-hungry and often too unresponsive to use.

I love Linux as a developer platform and that's why I'm staying here. But if I could give up the shell, package management, understandable system architecture and the like, I'd move to Windows in a jiffy. Its desktop works flawlessly on my PC.

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I stuck with linux for many years for the very same reason.

The solution that worked for me was getting an SSD.

Now, I always have a debian VM working in seamless mode. Ctrl+alt+t opens a terminal window, all linux dev tools work without a flow.

With an SSD there is absolutely no lag. Virtual desktops in Win10 and snapping with win+arrow keys, eliminate the need for a linux DE.

Plus you can use Adobe products, Visual Studio etc. at full speed, without hassle.

There is a VM that supports seamless mode for Linux?

Tell me more. Which one?

Virtualbox has so-called 'seamless' mode, in which the X11 windows from VM running on Windows host appear as separate windows in the Windows desktop. However, they only appear separate; they don't have separate panel button and they are not directly reachable via alt+tab. One needs to switch to VM first, then use keyboard shortcut set up in VM to access them.

If you alt-tab it to the vm, you have to alt tab again to switch between linux programs.

Usually that's not a problem, because I only have emacs and/or a terminal session running. With the control key on the right, you switch back to your host os.

To switch to a windows program from linux you simply press RCtrl+Alt+Tab.

Virtual desktops in Win 10 are very handy while using a VM. Ctrl+Win+d opens a new virtual desktop. Ctrl+Win+Arrow Keys switches between them.

> I've used GNOME previously, which was too memory-hungry and often too unresponsive to use.

Maybe you should buy a dev computer instead. Gnome consumes far less memory than the average DE. I always try every DE at every release and as far as I've experienced gnome-shell and cinnamon are the best at customization/plugins/performance.

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> I'd move to Windows in a jiffy. Its desktop works flawlessly on my PC.

I'm currently at work and I've a windows and an ubuntu on virtualbox - gnome-shell is pretty smooth while windows appends the "Not responding" text to every window's title, the search in the menu is much slower than it should be and the apps are often frozen - it is far from "flawless" for me.

I use Mate at Fedora. I see none of your bugs.

I'm sure that's of great value to him.

For me, it looks like a lie, because of no information about hardware, distro, kernel, etc.

For example, pulseaudio works fine for me for at least 6 years on 6 notebooks and 2 workstations of various vendors (HP, Dell, Acer, Medion). But if it will work badly under heavy load, then obvious command will fix that: `sudo renice -n -10 $(pgrep pulseaudio)` .

Assuming that other people are lying because they have trouble with things you like is paranoiac behavior. The almighty Linux desktop is not important enough to lie about.

I am leader of Linux User Group in my country, so I am aware about typical problems with Linux desktop. Last problem with PulseAudion on major distro, I heard off, was years ago.

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