if linux would get its shit together with proper desktop environment(KDE, obviously) and fix the backwards compatibility of libraries issue, they could rival windows any day. but nope, everyone wants to have their own name put onto every piece of code they can get their hands on and so linux will never succeed on desktop because there is no unity, no single functioning core os others could bouild upon if needed. no, everyone is doing their own thing and no one gets anything done. this is why
@Justicar I like the current environment. If everything was unified, feds would make it all fake and gay just like Microshit. I honestly think it's better way.
@RegalBeagle i think there should be core os(linux+gnu+kde) which would be maintained by linux foundation and distributions would be built on top of that. It would handle drivers and backwards library compatibility so no distro could screw them up. Distrod would only provide gui theme and preinstalled programs. So partial centralisation to provide a standard that can be relied upon.
@Justicar Maybe after the USSA falls, we can have something nice like that. Even if someone could wrangle all the kernel devs to all play nicely with each other, feds have huge incentive to sneak backdoors into the core.
Sure, FOSS and all, but with a single project to contribute to, feds can just buy off/inject devs and have them push whatever the feds want into the core. I'm paranoid enough to type this out but not even I compile kernels from source and examine the code.
@Justicar We all Arch down here.
@RegalBeagle you might, normal desktop users most definitely will not
@RegalBeagle but it is still open source. That is not mutually exclysive with having barebones OS