I originally posted this in the Linux Mint subreddit but thought I should also post it to a more broad subreddit associated with the mentioned Linux challenge. Anyway...

>Important info here. A Linux distribution could easily become a threat to the bigger players if it copied the ideas from an OS that millions of dollars of research went into: Windows. It doesn't have to look like it, it just needs to work like it. It's the small things about Linux that have started to bother me: mouse in the corner doesn't always click close, false confirmation that a file is done copying to a drive, middle-click doesn't work, etc.

>Sure there's probably ways around it, but I just want things to work (like most people), so unfortunately, I considering going back to Windows. Linux Mint is still the most familiar distribution for beginners in my opinion (I know others will disagree and that's fine, just my opinion), but even *it* is not quite there yet.

The edit from the [original post](https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1u3d7d6/hammers_without_handles_why_linux_ux_sucks/):

>Edit: The down-votes on this post already show a major source of this problem: "You're wrong for wanting an OS to work in a familiar way".

Hammers Without Handles: Why Linux UX Sucks.