They said GUI everything AND “just works”. I was more so referring to the latter.

My point is that nothing “just works”. With immutables, your system is less likely to break after updates, but introduce other headaches.

On a traditional distro, you can use pretty much any format. Traditional packages like deb/rpm, flatpak, snap, Nix, distrobox, etc.

That’s not the case for immutables. Bazzite primarily uses flatpak, but (1) not all apps are available as flatpaks, (2) not all apps work well as flatpaks, like IDEs, (3) apps may have permission issues that require some know-how and tweaking to fix. Bazzite also comes with Homebrew and Distrobox, but (1) Homebrew doesn’t have many GUI apps for Linux, (2) apps may not behave as expected in containers and don’t integrate as well. Finally, as a final resort, there’s layering but that (1) requires the terminal, (2) may not be allowed in the future as Universal Blue is going more bootc native without rpm-ostree support, (3) may not even run Fedora in the future if they like their “distroless” version more.

There is no right answer. While I love immutables, they bring their own set of problems to the table.

I wish they were more clear on this. Is this about existing AI features? Future AI features? AI images?

My only real complaint is that I would prefer it to never show the AI answer by default, I would just like to see the button to get the AI answer. And to be clear, I know I can set DDG to behave that way, but I do a lot of searches in private tabs too.

I actually do find the AI summary helpful maybe like half the time. When it comes to basic programming questions, like to remind me of syntax or arguments, it gives a useful answer most of the time.

But I don’t want to see AI images. And I’m hesitant to agree to future AI features because of how aggressively some companies push them in your face.

They share a few small visual elements, like a top panel and “dock”, but using them are completely different experiences.

MacOS is in reality closer to KDE than Gnome. That being said, almost every Linux desktop environment and Windows are closer to each other than MacOS. MacOS is quirky in comparison to all of them.