I would be convinced if Canonical: - Dropped the entire Linux desktop software stack. - Wrote a well-integrated top-down designed set of frameworks that provi

I would be convinced if Canonical: - Dropped the entire Linux desktop software stack. - Wrote a well-integrated top-down designed set of frameworks that provided a consistent API for desktop software, with binary-level ABI compatibility across major releases of the operating system. - Promoted and encouraged the distribution of standalone applications that included all their dependencies, including distribution via an app store. - Dropped the use of package management for anything other than OS components, especially for managing application dependencies. - Leveraged their well-designed set of frameworks to advance the state of the art and simplify the lives of developers, making it easier to ship "great software" for their platform as compared to others. As it is right now, Linux is a cess pool of poorly maintained, unstable, poorly designed, rapidly shifting crap. There's almost no centralized vision, and what centralized vision does exist is almost entirely co-opted and captured by massive ubernerds that don't seem to understand the first thing about producing a viable platform that end-user application developers would want to target. What Canonical has done is put lipstick on a pig; it's not enough to throw money at making the operating system acceptably attractive to just end users.