>Those developers are very unlikely to find Gnome 3 or Unity too constraining for their tastes The problem is that most of those developers have already left L

>Those developers are very unlikely to find Gnome 3 or Unity too constraining for their tastes The problem is that most of those developers have already left Linux and would be unwilling to switch either because of the hardware they like or the Mac app ecosystem or toolchain they use (for example iOS development). I doubt a significant percentage would come back even with a better Linux.