> Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), b

> Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace. See, I get where you are coming from, and I use Linux myself, but I feel that the author sees this as the fragmentation problem. One of the author's points is that the division between userspace and kernel is a problem, and the *BSDs offer up full operating systems, not just kernels. From TFA: "Linus Torvalds has many times made it very clear that he doesn't care about what goes on in the "Linux world", all he cares about is the kernel development" Otherwise, yeah... BSD is a great choice for some stuff, but it certainly falls short of the tools available to a Linux environment.