> If only the desktop (read: personal) computing experience on Linux wasn't so awful[0]. I realize that's a subjective statement, but come on, I've been hearing

> If only the desktop (read: personal) computing experience on Linux wasn't so awful[0]. I realize that's a subjective statement, but come on, I've been hearing "Year of the Linux Desktop" rhetoric for 20 years now and it's still a platform[1] so utterly unorganized and chaotic that even a whole lot of people like me, who believe strongly in personal computing and value the ideas of openness, don't want to use it[2]. Well, who's going to pay to make it better? Yes, there are for-profit companies behind many Linux distros with paid developers, but they don't have anywhere near the resources Apple or Microsoft does, so it's simply not realistic to expect a Linux distro to be as polished as Windows or iOS. The Linux world is unorganized and chaotic because it's full of developers who can get what they want out of the OS, while Apple and MS are organized because they are driven by a top-down vision. Maybe, just maybe, some Linux company gets a large enough contract, maybe from a nation-state or two, and over a decade is able to polish up a product which slowly starts to gobble up a market segment. That's not impossible, but not likely either. EDIT: also, normally when people cite things, they're citing something someone else said :). If it's all just going to be your opinion, you could just write it as such.