[kattagarian]

No?

Nobody in their right mind would claim that they are building the official Linux OS without turning the whole community against them.

And it's not as if the average user need to use linux. If developers move from windows 10 to linux, the impact would be huge.

[frollogaston]

This website seems directed at average users. There aren't a whole lot of devs, but even then, many devs want things to just work cause time is money.

Nobody is upset that there's an official Linux kernel. Of course it takes Linus Torvalds to declare it, and he's understandably not interested in designating an official OS, but this is a consequence.

[kattagarian]

> Nobody is upset that there's an official Linux kernel.

Because he was literally the creator of the whole thing. And the word "official" means little in the open source community. Yt-dlp took the crown out of youtube-dl hands when it comes to downloading videos. Is yt-dlp official? What official even means?

And that's fine that many devs want things that just work. Little by little, everyone is noticing that windows not only not improving but taking direct action to make the experience worse. The balance is tilting in favor of linux not only because linux is getting better but because windows is also getting worse

[frollogaston]

It's not enough because there isn't something comparable in Linux. Microsoft will follow their MO of avoiding pissing off users just enough that they don't bother switching, been that way since Vista at least.

[prmoustache]

The website doesn't pretend it will catch all users.

But some people are more curious than others. And among them, chance is that a large fraction can understand what a distro is.