[Update] Re: [OT] Granny-friendly Linux Distros?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 5/25/19 9:34 AM, Uknown wrote:
>> - It turns out, based on actual hands-on experience, LXDE (Lub. 18.04) 
>> is still just as crap as ever (though vastly faster than stock 
>> Ubuntu), but LXQt (Lub. 18.10) is actually really, really, *REALLY* 
>> freaking *GOOD*. In fact, *so* freaking good, I'm REALLY tempted to 
>> ditch KDE in favor of LXQt myself!!! (Biggest holdback is the fact 
>> that <https://github.com/papylhomme/diskmonitor> doesn't have a widget 
>> or systray tool for LXQt. God I wish [*proactive*!!] S.M.A.R.T. tools 
>> like that were more standard!!! It's an absolute SIN against computing 
>> that they aren't </rant>)
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Well a lot of the major DEs have manpower issues, and to add to this a 
> massive transition from X11 to Wayland. Kind of hard to work on "minor" 
> issues.

Well, yeaaaa....and I certainly sympathize with those manpower issues, 
buuuuut, even still...

Dragging an edge, or an item...mounting a panel...resizing 
something...even if it isn't a uniform resize...

...seriously, these are things that just about any Indie game dev could 
do practically *in their sleep*. And these DE's have had **24 
YEARS**...nearly a quarter of a century...to *copy* it. *AND*, TONS of 
that time was *WAAAAAY* before Wayland was even a thing! And 
yet...nothing...

Hell, I'd even do it myself, but I've long since run out of patience for 
big C and C++ codebases. D ruined me ;)