If that's your experience then I can absolutely understand your frustration, but as someone who has been using Linux on the desk top full time for about a decad

If that's your experience then I can absolutely understand your frustration, but as someone who has been using Linux on the desk top full time for about a decade this simply is not the case for me at all. I almost never have to compile anything on my desktops or laptops that isn't related to work on a server.