Honestly the rest of the owl is drivers, not applications. The favorite sports of programmers are rewriting things from scratch and porting DOOM. Not to mention

Honestly the rest of the owl is drivers, not applications. The favorite sports of programmers are rewriting things from scratch and porting DOOM. Not to mention that we have virtualization concepts built in to our modern architectures anyway. If your OS is good and works on their hardware people will get software working on it. The problem is that it won't work on their hardware without an army of people writing drivers. Even Linux has driver issues despite having huge numbers of people working on it. Arguably that's a bit self inflicted because they insist on having everything in-tree, but still.