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I try every year I try a few different Linux distros and each time I notice a tonne of UI and UX issues, and leave again (I mean, even the basic things like being able to resize windows is 95% of the time a pain on most distros I try. I'm sure there is a fix for it, but the point is, you shouldn't need to fix it, it should "just work"). In my mind Ubuntu is the closest, but still far far away.

I love Linux, and I use it almost every day (Debian), but only ever as GUIless servers, which it's amazing at. Just hope one day a team with design and ease of use will make a distro that "normal" people can enjoy to use. (but you would need other apps that look and work great in it too, which I fear will be the harder issue to tackle)

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How is resizing windows on Linux far away from Mac or Windows? I think you're exaggerating

Maybe it's just the way I do it, but most of the distros I've tried I always seem to have difficulty trying to click on the 1x1px spot to resize a window from the corner. Most of the time I'd miss it and have to try again.

The most recent example I can think of that I had this issue with is Ubuntu MATE last week.

And I get it, this is a very nitpicky issue, but in my mind, it's a basic operation that both macOS and Windows do really well and as a user switching from that, it's a little annoying.

In this case you are basically missing a feature

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/6963sa/plasma_tip_you_...

If you watch the gif in plasma basically you hold down the alt key and right click and drag to resize from anywhere on the window. Likewise you hold down the alt and left click and drag anywhere on the window to move it around.

Further there are hotkeys to place the window on a segment of the screen example: the left/right/top/bottom half or one of the corners. I think there is a function for sizing it to thirds as well. For me this virtually replaced any manual resizing even before I swapped to using a tiling wm where there is zero resizing.

I just tested this on cinnamon and this works there too. I don't know if it works in mate.

No. It is not only missing a feature. It is simply a very bad UI decision to make a hitbox to some user action only one pixel wide!

And using ONLY the mouse is the common way on a desktop for common folks where surprisingly many still don't even know strg + c

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