It's not worth driving away the vast majority of potential end users to cater to a small number of hackers through, even if the hackers were there first. When

It's not worth driving away the vast majority of potential end users to cater to a small number of hackers through, even if the hackers were there first. When it comes to wide appeal, linux suffers from paradox of choice on multiple levels. But there are a huge number of people who want the stability of windows/mac/etc without the violation of privacy, as long as they don't have to spend ANY time configuring their system to keep it working. To them, just like fixing their car, that's someone else' job/hobby that they don't have time for or get any enjoyment from. I don't see any reason why Linux can't offer that experience, but only if we have a windowing stack that is very opinionated about the user experience. Maybe it's time for an X12, but the Valves out there trying to make a competitive experience on linux for consumers will be dumping their money into Wayland.