> The people making it don't have any profit motive to make it better While I won't disagree if you claim Desktop Linux wasn't nearly at the level of polish as

> The people making it don't have any profit motive to make it better While I won't disagree if you claim Desktop Linux wasn't nearly at the level of polish as OS X Snow Leopard was, I think you've got a completely wrong diagnosis here. Both because there can be motives other than super-high salaries and because quite a lot of them do actually have financial motives to make it better. And having seen how the development goes on behind the scenes for KDE, I would disagree outright that the developers of KDE lack seriousness or dedication. On the other hand, Windows Metro was made by people with profit motives.