Since I've got a new laptop I've decided to set up my previous machine with Linux and I'm trying out some distros, or, "The agony of UX blindness in the Linux world"
#Zorin OS: https://zorin.com/os/ Decently professional and easy to use with an interface chooser for different Windows / Mac-style layouts. Application title bars are way oversized and you can't change it. Worse of all, the titlebar buttons' click region doesn't extend to the corner. What the hell is it with modern software and the complete abandonment of Fitts's Law!??
#System76#PopOS Widescreens were a mistake. I can't even with how much screen space is wasted. You can hide the dock or move it to the right, but that bar at the top isn't even a global menu like Mac meaning you get a stack of bars if the window has its own toolbar -- here I've forced the toolbar on Firefox to demonstrate; VSCode does this but I can't install that on a live CD.
@thomholwerda I understand for a desktop but that is very strange for a small laptop! My previous machine had only 1366x768 which is the effective minimum for viewing webpages now and even though I’ve finally upgraded to HD the UI is too small at 100% so I have to run at 125% scale which effectively puts me back where I was :|
@bbbbbr You can hide / move the dock but I’m just not a fan of the system bar + title bar + toolbar combo. This seems to be a GNOME thing so I’m going to try some KDE distros instead
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