All modern desktop environments for Linux are sad caricatures on software

FOSS developers decisions always screw things up. They are geniuses, and genius is as genius does: as a degenerate.

Enter KDE, AKA "K Desktop Environment". Two words: transparent menus. Yes, you read it correctly: their menus are transparent, as in 'can't see shit on them'. Figuring out how to disable transparency takes you to the Web, and you find that everyone tried that but was told that short of using another theme it is not possible. Sounds genius, does it not?

At some point, between KDE 2 and 3, the developer of system monitor applets decided that he can't live without a major redesign, so he screwed the applet up and users over. I begged him to add textual values to graphs but he flat out refused. Fast forward to the present, and textual values have been added, but simultaneously he expanded the graphs and made them 2 inch wide. Now, the CPU, RAM, and network applets take like 50% of the panel's width. Sounds genius, does it not?

Its desktop mode when all icons disappear, and it is not possible to revert, is like WTF is wrong with you, FOSS developers? Why are you absolutely hell-bent on torturing your users?

All desktop icons are duplicated on the secondary monitor. Why? No, seriously, why?

Enter Gnome. Your every action, every mouse move morphs the desktop to a windowed preview. I don't know how else to describe that the desktop shrinks to about 75% of its height and width and acquires rounded corners. WTF motivates them to do it, I dunno. It is beyond me what motivated Gnome developers to emulate smartphones, but I've written to that affect, ad nauseam. What is the purpose of its multi-step activation of the main menu through 'Activities' link up-top? What is the grand idea that tasks require many clicks of a mouse when they could require only one? Are we not selling many enough mice or touchpads?

Enter MATE, AKA miserable Gnome2 wannabe. This perpetually confused desktop is the least painful of them all but still nowhere near the previously glorious Gnome2.

I am above mentioning LXDE, XFCE and other caricatures on desktops. I'd rather be stuck with FVWM than with those shits.

Can our genius FOSS Community not offer anything workable? Guess not, they only want utmost perversion in UI designs. Praying for an asteroid.

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