>We'd have Linux on the desktop in 2020 if any of those projects had some Torvalds-like figure ranting on a mailing list about why the user is always right, sha

>We'd have Linux on the desktop in 2020 if any of those projects had some Torvalds-like figure ranting on a mailing list about why the user is always right, shame on you on redesigning the menubar yet again breaking any UI convention for no real purpose, and no, Canonical/Red Hat/whoever, we will not accept this patch that undermines the goals of this project. I think if you followed things more closely you would see that this is not true. There is no shortage of highly opinionated people making angry rants and throwing out patches. That's not going to help with the ridiculous amount of edge cases it takes to keep a desktop working. Using the Linux kernel as an example, there has been a meme there for quite a long time from overworked maintainers complaining about how the BDFL model scales poorly. (Recent writing here: https://lwn.net/Articles/703005/ https://lwn.net/Articles/703005/)