This, 100 % this. Linux hasn't succeed on the desktop because the business case for it is weak. The success of ubuntu is in large part due to the financial inpu

This, 100 % this. Linux hasn't succeed on the desktop because the business case for it is weak. The success of ubuntu is in large part due to the financial input of Mark Shuttleworth/canonical. For linux on desktop to move to the next step we need a way to generate revenue out of it. I do think there is a market for it ( a small one), and but that the main hurdle to a commercial desktop linux distro are cultural as opposed to anything else. I am not sure if i agree that something like redox would make more sense than using linux. The most lucrative market for linux desktop right now would be dev/front-end and backend. Going to redox you would lose all that ecosystem. I think microsoft is realizing that which is why they are pushing the linux on windows thing. But definitly, an desktop os based on something more modern than unix would be awesome