[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Sure, maybe, if you have the time and expertise to fix those flaws. But if the community doesn't adopt your fixes then you're stuck maintaining them yourself forever.

Over the years I've seen several solutions to my personal gripes with Linux Desktop, and they are routinely ignored or rejected because the culture as a whole just doesn't seem to actually care about those problems, or doesn't even believe they are problems.

[cix_pkez]

I haven't had the same experience. Which distros have you tried? Perhaps another would be a better fit technically or community-wise. I'd recommend Manjaro for a rolling release (no major reinstall every year), a focus on user-friendliness, a friendly community, as well as being based on Arch, which means the platinum-standard Arch Wiki is available as documentation for you.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

I've tried many. The problems I have with the Linux Desktop are not solved by any of them, though Nitrux at least tries to deal with one, albeit poorly. This is because the problems I have are pretty much endemic to the thought process of people who use and develop for UNIX systems. Things like hardcoded paths, the weird file hierarchy (please don't try and "explain" it, I know how it works and the reasoning behind it, I just disagree with it), no separation between system and application, overly complex and convoluted abstractions, etc.

>a rolling release (no major reinstall every year)

In my experience, rolling release just break things more often.