It is pretty frustrating that Linux failed to take advantage of Windows spending a decade with the tiles two-screen desktop and all the associated disasters of

It is pretty frustrating that Linux failed to take advantage of Windows spending a decade with the tiles two-screen desktop and all the associated disasters of Windows 8. Ultimately, linux on the desktop needed a big sponsor. IMO it should have been Intel who had some spare billions to put the heat on Intel and keep abreast of hardware adaptation since Linux is shoehorned into so many things, but Intel was ruled by drooling MBAs and that's why it's in the predicament it's in. Sun would have been a good one if it didn't blow up, and so tied to Solaris. Maybe the sponsor should have been the EU. The US had OS marketplace supremacy with Microsoft and to a lesser extent Apple. The EU should have poured a couple billion into it for economic independence, and fostering their own dynamic software industry. AMD was sort of EU's hedge on Intel, Airbus was their hedge on Boeing. Heck the US military should have done it, and still can, for effective cyberdefense. Microsoft and Apple won't open their codebases for hardening or deep dives into hardware+software security, but Linux can. Alas no way the lobbyists for the private OSs would allow it. Linux is a lot like democracy, the worst OS, except for all the others tried.