I feel it was pretty much there in 2010, but it's gone backwards since.
I remember Gnome back then would just work. Other than some sound issues (it's always sound issues) I could get programs to do pretty much anything and the use interface had at least as much control as Windows.
Today, it feels like they've deprecated all the useful GUI interfaces. I used to have a couple of programs that could handle mounting ISOs as drives (great if you're, say, running an old PC game from an image of the disk). Now I can, technically and with much research, do so with the command line, but there's no good GUI interface to do this. I feel the settings and a lot of the utilities are same way. The Start menu is completely fucked and impossible to edit, how they failed to copy the Windows "each menu item is a folder with shortcuts" is beyond me. Software Center should allow you one click install any program you could need, but it's slow, can't search for beans, and often breaks.
I feel it was pretty much there in 2010, but it's gone backwards since.
I remember Gnome back then would just work. Other than some sound issues (it's always sound issues) I could get programs to do pretty much anything and the use interface had at least as much control as Windows.
Today, it feels like they've deprecated all the useful GUI interfaces. I used to have a couple of programs that could handle mounting ISOs as drives (great if you're, say, running an old PC game from an image of the disk). Now I can, technically and with much research, do so with the command line, but there's no good GUI interface to do this. I feel the settings and a lot of the utilities are same way. The Start menu is completely fucked and impossible to edit, how they failed to copy the Windows "each menu item is a folder with shortcuts" is beyond me. Software Center should allow you one click install any program you could need, but it's slow, can't search for beans, and often breaks.