Yeah, it does read like a rant, but I think the suggestions are valuable. I've been using Linux since the first release of Slackware back in 1994, I believe.

Yeah, it does read like a rant, but I think the suggestions are valuable. I've been using Linux since the first release of Slackware back in 1994, I believe. For a number of years, I developed desktop applications for Linux for some of the companies I worked at, but it was always a pain to support multiple distros and multiple versions of the same distro. I got tired of the effort after a while and moved to doing web-only programming. Then, in 2010, I gave up on Linux as a desktop environment altogether, simply because the user experience was so much better on macOS (OS X at the time). I think having a standard that all distros adhered to that provided a common, universal baseline that developers could depend upon would go a long way toward increasing developer productivity, interest, and desktop usability.