The Linux desktop is in trouble
Found on ZD Net on Sunday, 14 April 2019
For example, better Linux desktops, such as Linux Mint, provide an easy way to install applications, but under the surface, there are half-a-dozen different ways to install programs.
The broad strokes of the Linux desktop are painted primarily by Canonical and Red Hat, but the desktop is far from their top priority. Instead, much of the nuts and bolts of the current generation of the Linux desktop is set by vendor-related communities: Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE's openSUSE, and Canonical's Ubuntu.
It is not easy building and supporting a Linux desktop. It comes with a lot of wear and tear on its developers with far too little reward.
The good thing about Linux is that anybody can fork and a release a project. The bad thing about Linux is that anybody can fork and a release a project. Hopefully desktop developers get their act together and will in the near future combine their resources.