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The more I try to learn linux the more I hate linux, this fragmented crap is not helpful and only adds pointless road blocks.
It is easier for me to strip all the privacy invasive bullshit from windows 11 than to setup a usable linux install.
I feel like that shouldn't be a sentence I should ever have to say.
Fragmentation is not a bad thing but I agree that instead of making programs deeply related to their DEs, they should keep that minimal if that's possible. Like I mentioned, Flatpak mostly solved this issue. Bazzite uses almost everything from Flatpak which is actually good from this point of view (while it might have other challenges on its own, like not everything is on Flathub, gets better though).
I would say even Ubuntu with telemetry is leagues better than a cleaned Windows 11 when it comes to privacy, but I understand what you mean.
Not sure when did you switch but if you're kinda new with Linux, it just needs time to recalibrate your knowledge. Once you learn the best for your every need, things like these won't be an issue. I wish the defaults would always be the best. Some distros actually pick their pre-installed programs really well, but most distros usually go with default suites, like if it's KDE, then everything is KDE because of the integrity.
I have been trying to switch to linux for over 10 years, I have been using bazzite with some success for a few weeks. I have been using windows since the dos days and I am a windows system admin with 10 years of experience. I can make windows do unholy things with little effort. Granted thats mostly because I have 10 years of experience but in those same 10 years I still know fuck all about linux because between the seemingly purposely unhelpful community and all this stupid segmented bullshit I can never get it to actually do anything so I just say fuck it and harden another windows install.
Finally Bazzite seems to be making some of that stuff a little easier but then I still run into quality of life shit like not mounting all of my installed drives by default like literally every other OS I've used.
P.S what is a DE? I'm sure it's basic knowledge for linux veterans but I have no idea what that means.
DE is for "Desktop environment". Most distro let you choose from quite a few. The two best known one are Gnome and KDE, i believe. But there are many more.
"Desktop environment" might just be two words without much meaning to you. If that the case, in the linux context, a desktop environment is basically the GUI to your computer: file explorer, desktop, taskbar, general setting manager and so on.
Thank you for clearing that up.