I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.)

Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I went ahead and installed some distros to get back in on the action. I came to four conclusions:

1) You can play games on desktop Linux now other than Tux Racer. Cool!

2) There's less weird X11-wrangling. Thank god.

3) It's otherwise still pretty much the desktop Linux I've always known and felt mildly annoyed by.

4) The current versions of Windows and macOS have gotten to be so unbelievably annoying for no good reason that a mildly improved desktop Linux now actually seems far less annoying than the mainstream options do.

Good job, Microsoft and Apple, for giving us the year of retreating in disgust to the Linux desktop.

... and considering the GTK file picker we still have to live with, that's saying something.