Linux is ready for desktop use, I have not used Windows for 3 years and I donot see any point to use windows any more considering the secure-boot nonsense and etc..

No need to run for Win7, Linux and osx are better options and will make life much easier.

Now, it is right time to dump Microsoft.

amusing. C & lisp are the best languages available currently. Sooner or later, a developer will become to love them as long as they do not quit programming job.

dwm is final solution. I came down from kde->gnome->xfce->openbox->dwm.

C++ sucks, QT sucks even more. I prefer a simple C API for GUI but there is none. FLTK is pretty close, but it is c++, and it is also not as sophisticated as QT.

As a long time linux user, I lost interest in KDE almost from the very beginning. I totally agree that KDE is unnecessarily complicated. I am going the route like KDE->gnome->openbox->dwm. Now I am very satisfied with dwm with dmenu and no interest in microsoft and apple at all.

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