[ShadowAce]

If Linux developers were capable of producing a single desktop environment, you’d see higher gains for Linux.

1. Linux is an OS. It's not a desktop environment. The DE runs on top of the OS.
2. Linux is known for being able to conform itself to the user's way of doing things--not the other way around. One DE would destroy that, and drive away a lot of users.

[bobcat62]

I’ve been working on Unix systems since X10 was in vogue. Before Linus made his first release of Linux. I know what Linux is.

The problem is normies want a single DE with applications. Those flexible DEs will stunt Linux growth on the desktop.

There’s an additional problem: The growth of far-left politics into open source projects. We’d both be banned from contributing to many open source projects because we post here on FR.