if i want a gui text editor that doesn't use gtk for the sole reason that gnome has not learned in 20 years how to render fonts in a half competent way and you tell me to use vim or emacs i'll make you use windows 95 for a week to learn to use a mouse
2024 linux still to this day has no equivalent to Windows 3.11 Microsoft paint or Microsoft notepad and honestly that's very sad for an operating system that is still trying to break into the desktop market started by apple in 1983 with the Lisa
face it we all gave Linux a shot in the early 2000s because we saw that video of compiz doing the 3d workspace switching thing and thought that was the pinnacle of desktop UI and later lied to ourselves it was because free as in beer or speech software was somehow better than pirating windows xp and now the stronghold of gnome is making you use a worse version of mac os you have to manually fix every update or let go of whatever customisations have even survived this far
but maybe Wayland will fix everything once it finally releases in 20 years
not that it'll run on any current, let alone older, machines we currently own
you're lucky if the same hardware heavily supported 10 years ago by xorg and mesa even boots today
but hey mesa-amber huh
next time someone tells me to try Linux instead of windows i'll just shove this thread in their face