> Yet another reason why Linux and BSD distros, were never taken seriously on the Desktop I think you're overblowing this point. Many administrations, non-prof

> Yet another reason why Linux and BSD distros, were never taken seriously on the Desktop I think you're overblowing this point. Many administrations, non-profits and companies actively use GNU/Linux or BSD desktops and are quite happy with it. Red Hat, Ubuntu and Suse are famous example providing good levels of support and customization if you can afford it. Mandriva in its time was very user-friendly and popular (at least here in France) but unfortunately they were shut down for business reasons if i remember. But i agree with your critique that switching distro just because you want to switch desktop environment is the wrong answer because it introduces so many layers of complexity you know your tiny distro is gonna fall behind in terms of features/security. I wish more distros exposed higher-level knobs to customize everything without learning the specifics of every piece in the stack. That's for me the strongest selling point in nix/guix even though i feel it's not as user-friendly as it could be.