Comment on Ask HN: Which Linux or windows desktop do you find the easiest and fastest?Comments−lproven1yXfce.Understands Windows-style keyboard navigation and shortcuts, which is way faster than reaching for a mouse and trying to aim at anything on screen.For speed, learn _all_ the keyboard shortcuts. I mostly use my mouse only in web browsers: everything else is keyboard-driven.I also rate Ubuntu's Unity for this. Looks like macOS but understands all the Windows keystrokes, even quite obscure ones.For example the QuickLaunch bar, added in Win98 and deprecated from Vista on.https://www.ancsite.com/bringing-back-windows-xp-styleWindows + 1...9 opens the n th item in the QL toolbar. Win+1 opens the first pinned app, Win+2 the second, Win+3 the third, etc. This works in Unity.
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Xfce.
Understands Windows-style keyboard navigation and shortcuts, which is way faster than reaching for a mouse and trying to aim at anything on screen.
For speed, learn _all_ the keyboard shortcuts. I mostly use my mouse only in web browsers: everything else is keyboard-driven.
I also rate Ubuntu's Unity for this. Looks like macOS but understands all the Windows keystrokes, even quite obscure ones.
For example the QuickLaunch bar, added in Win98 and deprecated from Vista on.
https://www.ancsite.com/bringing-back-windows-xp-style
Windows + 1...9 opens the n th item in the QL toolbar. Win+1 opens the first pinned app, Win+2 the second, Win+3 the third, etc. This works in Unity.