Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

[Amit]

I have now figured out what the main problem in the linux world is -
The message from the linux world is that if you don't like something
then please don't suggest anything to us, just go ahead and do it
yourself, we are not going to do it. We will do what we want to do,
irrespective of whether people will like our work or not.

It is kind of strange because in the whole world I see that -
"Feedback is most welcome" but not in the linux world.

So, now I have given up. I am now not going to give any ideas to the
linux world.

I had mentioned this before in this thread - I had opened a discussion
on GNOME discourse and I started questioning them on GNOME 3 user
interface. I said that GNOME 2 user interface was more user friendly
than GNOME 3 user interface and even Linus Toravlds had said a similar
thing. But they didn't even want to discuss this in detail and they
closed the discussion topic abruptly.

I like GNOME Flashback Metacity because it has menus. GNOME 3 user
interface doesn't have menus. Windows/MacOS both have menus. Almost
all applications in this world have menus. So, I don't know what GNOME
3 user interface developers were thinking when they decided to remove
the menus. I had read somewhere, probably, a few years ago that GNOME
wanted to be different from Windows/Mac, etc. Well, they definitely
made it different with GNOME 3 but they couldn't make it popular.
Doing something different doesn't guarantee popularity. And it is
clear that GNOME developers are not going after the popularity, they
just want to do different things that they like to do. Well, then,
they are obviously not going to get lots of funds.

As an example - an employer will not pay you for doing your own thing,
an employer will pay you for doing what they want. Similarly,
companies won't give funds if someone just develops something without
involving the companies and that something is not what the companies
want. So, your software may be different but not necessarily be liked
by companies and hence not much funds and hence you may go extinct one
day.

Already freedesktop.org and Alpine linux are struggling to get some
money so that they can save themselves from extinction
(https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/02/04/0044210/popular-linux-orgs-freedesktop-alpine-linux-are-scrambling-for-new-web-hosting).

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By the way, Linux Foundation is getting around $250 million funds
every year because they do what the companies ask them to do. No such
thing with GNOME, etc.
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Besides, linux kernel doesn't care much about linux desktop(s) and so
they don't care whether companies are giving linux drivers or not and
without drivers, it is very hard to use linux desktop(s) if some new
(and necessary) hardware comes up. Also, as gathered from the
discussions in this thread, probably, there are not linux drivers for
some common hardware like - scanners, card readers, etc.

I had mentioned here that I had sent an email to the linux kernel
mailing list about making developing device drivers very easy on linux
but no one responded. So, it is clear that they don't care much about
linux desktop(s).

So, the whole linux world is not working as a single unit and neither
there is a will to do so.

>
> Do you suggest that the tens of thousands (or more) of linux developers
> and all the linux companies drop the current plans that they have been
> using and follow you instead, as if they haven't thought about these kinds
> of things with orders of magnitude more depth and knowledge?
>

I really don't think that they would have thought about these things.
What is the proof that they did think about these things? In my
opinion, they would have implemented it if they had thought about
these things (that is - to get funds, they need to involve companies
and do what they ask for).

Now, I have decided that if I want to work for increasing the usage /
popularity of linux desktop(s) then I will do it in the background
without revealing my plans to anyone. I have some plans but I don't
know if I will go ahead with those plans or not. But anyways, I won't
write about them here or anywhere else.

I am sorry if I have offended anyone.

Regards,
Amit