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Change a few of the details, and this post could have been written twenty years ago. The situation in 2020 is different though. What do you gain with XFCE, Gnome, or your favorite window manager, that is not done better in MacOS or Windows? Both of those environments already provide *nix support, and they have much better (understatement) hardware support.
Desktop linux will be bigger, probably much bigger, but as a share of the total desktop market. That market itself is not exactly promising. I think the last data I saw was that desktop sales had been falling for the better part of a decade! Counting laptops. With a dead cat bounce here or there.
This is all a roundabout way of saying that there is still a fight to be had for linux, but it's on phones. Desktop share will not be won, it will be conceded by the big guys as a sales pitch to the primarily techy types using it to embrace their SDK on mobile, where the money is.
Really? You really think that an article is necessary to discuss the fragmentation of Linux and how it's holding back the platform. The fragmentation predates Linux, System V vs BSD, it was a problem in the 80's. Linux is the technology equivalent of protesting COVID-19 lock-downs. Everyone is so selfish, and self absorbed that they are unwilling to yield for the greater good.
The rest of us that want something for ourselves that buntu has? Hack our own stuff to make the buntu solution work. It usually isnt as hard as it sounds!
You can take my Gentoo-with-runit from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I do my best to give back to projects. I patch upstream. I contribute to manuals. I help reinforce the compatibility and interoperability of our nix ecosystem. As an unpaid, end user.
Im told this is a role that can* grow into more robust, informed contributions to the community.
I only grew in this direction from the ability to jump around, learn here, learn there. And dig in for myself. Do you want to take that from future users, coders, and admins?