It's amazing how so many smart people can be so blind. I've been using unix and linux for about a quarter of a century. I cut my teeth on proper X Window termi

It's amazing how so many smart people can be so blind. I've been using unix and linux for about a quarter of a century. I cut my teeth on proper X Window terminals and Motif Window Manager (and NeXTSTEP and SGI IRIX workstations, etc, etc.) I was using firefox on linux before it was even named firefox. I've used a variety of desktop linux distros over the years, but I've never felt compelled to actually make the jump for good. In theory I'm the perfect candidate for switching to a linux desktop but for me it's never been worth it. Yes, desktop linux can be a perfectly fine experience, but is it a superior experience? Every time I've made a serious effort to try out a desktop linux OS it's always felt like a bit of a downgrade. Not just because of all the stuff I miss out on like being able to run games and other software I like, but even well beyond that. Despite most desktop linux distros being pretty decently polished there are inevitably a few dozen little completely unfinished and often completely buggy or broken parts of the OS lurking around. It's like opening a door in a house and finding everything ripped down to the studs with an excitable nest of raccoons roosting where a bedroom should be. The fact is, it's pretty common to have to do some rather serious "IT department self-service" when you try to use desktop linux, just in the course of dealing with ordinary trivial stuff like power management, connecting to wifi, watching video, etc. I remember the bad old days of X Window config nightmares: type in the correct horizontal sync frequency in kilohertz to avoid blowing up your monitor. Things are light-years better than those days but they still aren't at the "install off a usb drive and everything basic mostly works with at best some annoyances" level. The value proposition of a linux desktop has to have a lot more to it than "you can have a kind of ok experience with it if you don't ask for too much" if it's going to get any sort of adoption. Especially in a world where the competition isn't just windows/macos computers but android/ios tablets and smartphones as well as chromebooks. Linux has such a compelling story in the server space, but people need to really stop pretending that they can just tweak that story a bit and push it into the desktop space, it still needs a ton more work to get there.