> I personally think it's the #1 reason Linux never stole any sizable market share from Mac OS X/Windows. I assume you speak about desktop. MacOS never had any

> I personally think it's the #1 reason Linux never stole any sizable market share from Mac OS X/Windows. I assume you speak about desktop. MacOS never had any huge market share in this space. Its iPhone (and its predecessor, iPod) which allowed Apple to become as big as they currently are. > Does this fragmentation help or hurt the ecosystem over the long-term? Over the long-term it allows for abstraction layers, such as Ansible or Nix, to become status quo.