Main points of interest to me, beyond OXT on Linux:
- A desktop environment / basic apps bundle that is intuitive like macOS. I've been primarily a mac user for 34 years, I still have never found an OS as intuitive as macOS, I'm sure others have different opinions about that, but that's my opinion, and it's the main thing I'm looking for in an OS. This may be the hardest thing to get in a Linux because of the nature of Linux which seems to favor choices in "Looks" over any underlying "Feel" of intuitiveness and integration. What I mean by this is that I know I can fairly easily get a Linux Desktop to look like macOS with a Dock at the bottom and all that, but I can't find one that is as intuitively integrated with things like dragging and dropping various types of elements between apps. For example in macOS finder (file manager) I can drag a file icon into a terminal window, and the Terminal will insert the path to that file into the command line automatically, no typing! Is there anything, file manager, clipboard manager, or whatever, for Linux that can achieve this sort of thing?
- Multimedia creation (not just playback) capabilities, particularly Music & Sound capabilities including Linux Audio Plugins. Not too many distros fall into this category. Ubuntu Studio is one Distro that comes with a lot of this stuff preinstalled. I know I can install these things on most any Linux distro, but when use start messing around with system audio drivers and changing APIs for MIDI routing and such you can easily wind up breaking things, at least I have, so to have these sorts of thing already auto-configured during installation is very nice.
- Light/Medium weight Desktop, I'm about to try the newest Ubuntu Studio which is built on Kbuntu (KDE Plasma DE), while previous versions were built on Xubuntu (XFCE DE). I was surprised by this, but it turns out that newer versions KDE Plasma are actually now LESS resource consuming than XFCE, at least by default.
Any suggestions would be appreitiated. Thanks!