[whitegrape]

I don't know what a true polished, seamless desktop experience on any OS would look like. Windows 10 may be better (I'm still on 7 for work/gaming) but I still notice it BSODs and is apparently heavily resistant towards custom configurations like improving your privacy and control over the machine you own. I don't understand the Mac's UI and popularity among power users or casual users so I can't comment on it much. In the end I agree with Linus, the real issue is user inertia, but I also think it's not really an issue. Linux won everywhere but the Desktop, and it's not like that fact stops me from having the best desktop experience I can get using Linux.

Did you ever pay to support the various commercial endeavors for a Desktop Linux that Dell et al. have tried? I haven't, for one simple reason, though a second builds on it: their hardware is always subpar (laptop or desktop) -- which I can't even blame them for if they're trying to get sales from the much larger market of non-power users, but then the price isn't that competitive either. Second I'm going to reinstall the distro to one I prefer anyways, or even if the same distro at least one that I'm sure is free of any bundled crapware that is supposed to make the experience more polished and seamless, so I'm going to do it on better hardware. The only time hardware has been an issue for me was, I don't know, 15 years ago with a laptop's built-in wifi? Linux runs on a lot of things, some of those things include laptops and desktops.