> Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want

> Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want or use software the same way as the average person. So they don’t build what the average person wants. So the average person doesn’t want to use it. That's not necessarily a failure mode though. If Linux developers are producing the desktop they want to use then that's fine. They don't owe the "average" person anything, whoever that is. (BTW, I don't think the situation is quite so dire. From experience, dropping non-technical users into a modern Ubuntu is not really all that hard. The fact that most custom software these days is web based makes that much easier)