Yea, Linux is another good example, but that's really mostly because of Linus' adament commitement to never break user space. A lot of other people would be hap

Yea, Linux is another good example, but that's really mostly because of Linus' adament commitement to never break user space. A lot of other people would be happy to break user space programs. As in this famous rant https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 For the "gnu" user space programs, I don't use much of them so I can't comment, but for the desktop environment? It's a huge mess. Even with stable/sane environments like xfce, somethings are confusing and brittle, such as getting things setup properly for Kanji/Chinese character input. I've tried it several times, and everytime it takes a lot of effort to get it right, and I always forget what the right steps were. It's not even worth remembering because in a few years it will change.