What is the base data for your analysis? Is this data available?
And how did you come to the conclusion that "missing high quality linux desktops" are the thing "holding back" Linux?
Is this based on some statistical work you did?
If we talk about feelings - did you ever have the feeling that corruption, lobbying and blackmailing could play a role?
BTW - why do you think Linux is missing high quality desktops? I am working with very high quality Linux desktops since many years and I wonder why people are using such low quality desktop OS that are sold commercially.
But that is life - you will die at the end. This is not a reason to be depressive, there is a way to find freedom accepting the volatile nature of everything. Enjoy your life, do not harm anybody and do positive work.
Simon H, your inter-galactical mission has failed!
People of planet earth KNOW, that YOU and your friends are HERE and we will not submit to extraterrestrial leadership!
Your denial of an obvious fact is evidence of you being part of the extraterrestrial gang that tries to stay in the dark - but it is too late, you can hide in Antarctica or in the oceans, we still know that YOU are here!
BTW - would you please like to support us in building better polyphonic analog synthesizers? This technology is stuck in the 80s and we still have limitations in total voice count and number of modulation sources - we need some serious evolutionary jump in this area. Thanks!
But people using forums also got so many things wrong.
One thing that really went wrong: people using forums as issue trackers.
Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from. Instead of using an issue tracker, they post more and more messages to the one forum topic dedicated to $thing. Some hardware related forums still do that. Ultra long topics with hundreds of posts, somewhere between page 157-178 there are some nuggets you will never find.
Also the extremely annoying UIs - as an example look at the minimal navigation / pagination buttons in many forums. Well, OK, that started to change slowly, but still we have horrible UIs everywhere. Annoyances like most space on a forum page still wasted for unimportant side information do exist - some designs are so bad that the most important information has the smallest font size.
But while the good old slick and dirty PHP forums still delivered with all that warts, mostly because these people still knew how to program fast software, then came the ruby programmers and brought us a vision of forum software that should get a premium lifetime award for coding horrors. JS heavy frontend with grotesque front-end anti-patterns and a monstrous bloated backend that breaks when your forum actually has some attention. The time of "internet software as a satirical art form" has not stopped until today.
So hopefully the old-school PHP devs can easily iron out the annoyances of the past and still deliver internet software that is fast and usable.
I do not understand what do you mean by "interlocking" and "overlapping" networks. The word "federate" you use very near to these words make me believe that you are talking about some technical feature - but I do not know that.
What kind of "interlocking" and "overlapping" are you writing about here?
BTW this limitation made me believe that the data distributed with Protomaps is limited to that zoom level in general. Some wording related to "data" and "shopping" near that map quickly made me assume that deeper zoom levels will cost money.
Are you presenting a limitation of the product on the front page or is this just a limiting presentation of your product? Mind the difference.