The author is an untrustworthy Ubuntu astroturfer who picks fights and insults his critics on the platform he publishes the paid articles he writes.

The author -- me -- rejects every one of those accusations.

I am a former member of staff at both Red Hat and SUSE, and I have coming up on 30 years of experience on Linux across coming up on 100 different distros.

Among the OSes on bare metal on my home machines are macOS, FreeBSD, RISC OS, ArcaOS, FreeDOS, PC DOS, Haiku, Oberon/A2, ChromeOS Flex, Q4OS, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10... alongside Ubuntu and other distros.

As for Ubuntu itself, as it happens, I thoroughly dislike GNOME and never recommend or use it.

Among Linux distros which have been my full-time desktop platform were SUSE and Caldera OpenLinux.

My laptops mostly run Ubuntu with the Unity desktop, with Snap packaging removed and disabled, but I am currently assessing a move to MX Linux.

I've been using UNIX systems since 1988 and I still don't like it much. Case sensitivity is a pain, the shell is pointlessly arcane, and I am not a programmer -- not because I can't, because I can but I recognize that I'm not very good at it -- and don't really want an OS designed for programmers.

My favourite OSes over a 41 years in computing so far were VAX/VMS, Acorn RISC OS, and Classic MacOS, although I was a keen user of IBM OS/2 2 for some years.

I am a paid full-time member of staff at The Register, where I have been for 2 years today, as it happens. Before that, I freelanced for them from 2009. Before that I wrote for the Inquirer.

MX too bloated. Feel the power of ANTIX with RUNIT, run it RAM, setup some persistence on some storage in whichever way you like, disable and remove all the fluff like conky, use IceWM as WM, and zzzfm as filemanager, make it look nice, feel the insane speed.

Remaster. Then this is yours. And stays that way, whith some remastering from time to time, due to updates, whatever.

Giggle like a madman for not having to care about all the useless 'make work, make work!' anymore.

Relax.

Edit: While you're at it, deploy https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon / https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon or something like that for FF. That's the icing on the cake, for FF not to access your /home , whereever that may be stored. Works wonders for Sideberry, and preserves your precious SSD. OFC that applies to any distro.

Edit: s/Openbox/IceWM