As a software engineer, this post resonates with me.
But, you can find this attitude pervading the whole linux desktop ecosystem. This post may as well be titled "Why it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop".
I don't really care about "the Linux Desktop" and I don't quite understand why so many people do. I use Linux and it works great for me. If it never makes inroads among my non-technical friends and family, who cares? They are doing fine without it.
I guess this is what survives of the 90s/early-2000s Slashdot mentality where people defend software for ideological reasons and get in Linux vs. Windows fanboy fights, but I think that's anachronistic today. Linux Desktop is never going to take over among average people (increasingly many of whom don't even use desktops at all) and that's fine.
But, you can find this attitude pervading the whole linux desktop ecosystem. This post may as well be titled "Why it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop".