Desktop Linux suffers from the same chicken-and-egg problem that doomed Windows Phone. Developers don't develop for it since the user base isn't large enough,

Desktop Linux suffers from the same chicken-and-egg problem that doomed Windows Phone. Developers don't develop for it since the user base isn't large enough, and people don't switch to it because app support is severely lacking. How good the raw OS is doesn't matter that much when the apps aren't up to par. Your Wine comment illustrates my point - while Wine is an awesome project - even apps running perfectly through it feel like they're running on Windows 2000. That's fine if you just care about the functionality of the app, but not if you care about the user experience.