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What more do you need? Mutt is good for terminal usage too.
Or are you lamenting stuff like integrated calendar and what not?
>- Very messy to install software. The native "App Store" wouldn't work or connect, so had to resort to shell commands.
Software install is A) fundamentally messy if you refuse to read what is being installed, B) nothing to complain about given that the level of friction a developer has to go through for say, bloody Mac software releases is insane. For linux, a tarball download, path update, and linker path update is generally sufficient.
>-- Lack of suitable productivity software (which you mentioned).
I have immense difficulty taking this at face value.
>That's the problem with OSS, everybody wants to blame each other and nobody wants to take responsibility and deliver a complete experience to users.
Ya know what, maybe I've gone to the dark side in that the problem there is in the expectation of the user.
Most tools arise out of "it solves a problem for me" and we share. Maybe some distro builder has the passion to integrate things... Good on them.
You will never have a great experience using a tool you refuse to become proficient in, and computers are no different in that. The most toxic thing that happened to our industry os we suddenly seem to have drawn a line between Users and developers when in reality, there is only users.