Start again with simpler stuff? I did kind of hoped that when we got an open source Linux desktop, back in the 1990s, that these things might improve. But they

Start again with simpler stuff? I did kind of hoped that when we got an open source Linux desktop, back in the 1990s, that these things might improve. But they did not make it debuggable, even for an advanced user. I can debug hard server stuff, but I have no idea where to start with most desktop software. It didn't help that its all compiled, would be much easier to add sane debug hooks in say Python than in C++ for this type of software. The web at least has got that right, with far better debug tooling than any desktop environment.