"The Linux desktop killed itself, by playing on their terms instead of its own. The best thing it can do now - once denial and recrimination are done with - is

"The Linux desktop killed itself, by playing on their terms instead of its own. The best thing it can do now - once denial and recrimination are done with - is turn the killing process itself into a virtue, and slice not only the DE/application mess but also the cultural one right back down to the bone and start rebuilding from there." One of the key features of Linux is the way it was always supposed to run noticeably better than Windows on much older and/or lesser hardware. If everyone involved had at least prioritized this one feature without compromise (I know, infiltration of open source by those who felt the need to kill this advantage), that would still be part of the playing field that other OS's would have to contend with instead.