content: Distros come and go so often and the changes are so shocking There needs to be a real focus, driven by a small standards group Until Linux takes a long, cold, hard look at itself and decides it needs to stop playing fast and loose with everything, it will not be the Windows or MacOS killer.  Enter Redhat's Poettering. Who has started freedesktop.org to make unifying standards to Linux desktops, and written infamous software to include windows-like features in Linux DEs. The changes were drastic, widespread, and were to a degree "ununixlike" enough to spook the philosophically-unix-inclined Dennis Ritchies and Ken Thompsons to run towards (or make) "fighting man" distros. X11 is being replaced with wayland compositors and libinput. Init scripts and services implementations were molested. Device management, IPC, seat, and privilege escalation software was introduced. All of this is relatively new. Ultimately, it won't make serious suits consider Linux, because inside the consumer world, it considers itself a hobby platform. For the suits,  65e1   windows is what they are convinced they want, and Windows is all their users know, and nothing else will make anybody happy. Besides, its the OS that is preinstalled on the laptops they order.     Distros  Love it or hate it. If you had your way, there would only be RHEL, and it would be terrible.   LibreOffice  Describe what mystical feature being missing that is interfering with your stonks.