Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.

Exactly and then from time to time your clear out and clean the garage. Hence the original post.

Bold of you to assume people have perfect knowledge of what they installed and what they use and how much.

Sure, it’s a matter taste and I too like a good UI.

Both can exist, that’s a another beauty of linux.

Also, updates.

“hey computer! Update!”

“Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?”

“y”

“ok… done!”

👌

idk, I’ve been using xubuntu for more than 10 years now, I’m not happy with absolutely everything, but the trouble I do have is definitely less effort to fix than learning a new, more elaborate distro.

So, it’s a pretty good, common denominator, and as long as it keeps working it doesn’t really need to be anything else?

I’m sure there are differences and niches that other distros fulfill better, but until there is a killer feature I’m interested in that only works on a specific distro or works extremely well on a different distro, I don’t see the “push” factor that would make me leave?

(btw, that there is no “report bugs here” button that’s just built into the window manager (besides the -,+,x buttons) and takes me to project home pages or bug trackes is wild to me, on any distro as far as I know. Like they don’t want to interact with users? I don’t get it.)