they sure are: difference in e.g. desktop usability with like 15 years ago is huge. You can finally install something from cd and have it up and running including audio/network/automatically mounting pendrives/... without having to touch a config file. Usually. But the problem seems to be in the getting better: I'd rather just have it good enough already right now. Too often it does, for me, as a desktop, still not feel quite right yet and still too buggy. 15 years ago a lot of things Windows just worked and now they still do and a bunch of nice stuff was added (ok crap was added as well) and for what I do with it I have close to 0 problems. I just wish I could say that everytime I try any of the distros you mention.
they sure are: difference in e.g. desktop usability with like 15 years ago is huge. You can finally install something from cd and have it up and running including audio/network/automatically mounting pendrives/... without having to touch a config file. Usually. But the problem seems to be in the getting better: I'd rather just have it good enough already right now. Too often it does, for me, as a desktop, still not feel quite right yet and still too buggy. 15 years ago a lot of things Windows just worked and now they still do and a bunch of nice stuff was added (ok crap was added as well) and for what I do with it I have close to 0 problems. I just wish I could say that everytime I try any of the distros you mention.