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Most other distros have GUIs which look terrible
I can't really think of a linux GUI i would consider as looking absolutely terrible. LXDE is ugly, but it has a good reason for that. I guess my least favorite DE would be MATE just when talking about aesthetics. Right now i have unity on my laptop and PC. While i'm not a huge fan of it, i feel it best serves my needs.
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I recently rediscovered Gnome 3
I too gave Gnome 3 a good try just few weeks ago. It would be the best DE for my laptop usability wise, but the performance was terrible. Everything felt laggy and i had tearing issues. Sad really, since i really like where Gnome is going. 
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I've spoken a lot about GUIs, which some might disregard as a minor point because they are focused on the technical benefits of different distros. But as far as I'm concerned, the GUI is a critical detail, as it determines how I interact with my computer, which ought to be as painless and efficient as possible.
I completely agree with this. There are crazy people out there who think that anybody can just pick up a CLI and use it with no problem. This is a major reason why many people are scared away from linux. I can't even remember how many times i've suggested linux to people with computer issues and the answer i got was that they can't deal with CLI. Linux developers need to get into their heads that we don't live in the 90s anymore and people just aren't comfortable with the command line. Luckily projects like Linux Mint have made big efforts on this area.
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Linux doesn't have portable applications by default.
Yeah, and there isn't really any other reason for this than a philosophical one. I hear that the new Snappy packages in Ubuntu should fix this issue, which would make a whole lot of things a lot easier later down the line.
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So, when SE is ported to Linux, my guess it will be on Steam before it is distributed any other way.
It's either that or make a dedicated repository for SE. This would limit SE to be compatible with just Ubuntu, which is not that great when the steam layer can make it work with almost any distro out there.
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And I refuse, refuse, refuse to ever call it GNU + LInux.
As do i. It is a horrible name and even Stallman must realize that. A name like that will never gain market appeal. "Linux" isn't very media sexy either, but i feel it's too late to change it.
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Say what you want about Microsoft but I'll take MS Office over LibreOffice in a heartbeat.
LibreOffice team really needs to step up their game. MS Office is one of the two reasons why i still need windows partitions on my machines. It's a real pain in the butt to start up Win10 for some text editing and then having to deal with all the accumulated updates. 
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