I quote from the article: "To sum up: (a) First dimension: things change too quickly, breaking both open source and proprietary software alike; (b) incompatibil

I quote from the article: "To sum up: (a) First dimension: things change too quickly, breaking both open source and proprietary software alike; (b) incompatibility across Linux distributions" I must say, this is the type of thing I have been talking about for years. Linux has always had its evangelists and champions in the Server community (I would reckon Red Het, Ubuntu, and Debian/Slackware are the root of what what upended Unix servers in the 2000s, but that is for another day at another time to get in-depth). Yet, there was no foundation, no company, no project, until maybe in the last year or two with elementary OS and some of the standardizations coming out of the Fedora project, that you even see some evangelism in the Linux desktop space (let alone mobile. I am not counting android). The problem as I see it is Linux is the programmers playground - which is great! - but what that also turns out to be is that since you can fork, edit, re-create, spin, and otherwise modify the code as we programmers see fit, you get no level of standardization, no harmonized quality control on fundamentals, no one evangelizing the Linux Desktop as a platform that you can make apps for (which I still contend is a big issue for Linux as a Desktop for the even semi-mainstream user. I think most developers not withstanding.) It was never an inclusive platform Some might say this was the point. They don't want, nor do we need Linux to be the same as macOS, or Windows. Perhaps the point of the communities that sprang up around the Linux on the desktop movements is that there is a ethos that having these fundamentals is bad, or that evangelizing a platform is 'selling out'. I've seen this argument many times over the years. To me, the quote from the article above, sums it all up nicely. The platform never had any fundamental evangelists pushing for a harmonized Linux experience. There is always Chaos, sometimes a little (nvidia driver breaks again because of a point update) or a lot (Well, today we have no GUI because Gnome moved to Wayland and for some reason my distro has some component it doesn't support yet so when it went to apply the update it failed). Until idealism stops running the show and there is some consolidation in the fundamentals of Linux on mobile and Linux on the desktop, neither will be a way forward if you value access to the latest software, consistency in the fundamentals, stability, and out of the box hardware support from manufacturers.