From a non-tech perspective, IKEA, as a private company, shares a similar focus with Bell Labs on enhancing individual components to improve the overall system.
What I've noticed buying Ikea stuff over the last 30 years so that it's gotten progressively lower-quality.
Take for example their Kallax shelves. I've purchased them at least 4 times in the last 20 years, each time, a part that was metal before got replaced by a plastic or wood part, the wood got thinner or less dense, .... They still work so maybe that's innovative.
I was contemplating to upgrade to Windows 11 but I took the plunge and moved to Linux instead. No issues whatsoever - the games I play work with Steam compatability mode or just natively. The work I do is mostly in the browser.
My list of requirements is non-existent except that it would be nice to easily out of the box be able to play games and have a tiling window manager.
I come from Windows10 so, no real demands or philosophical needs about the OS other than that it would be nice to avoid ads in the OS as much as possible.
For a tiling wm, I'd not prefer Ubuntu. Ubuntu works best when you just accept the default way of doing things.
I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my past experience (maybe it's different 10-15 years later) the distro annoyed me sometimes with the rigor of its anti-proprietary stance. Software which I expected to be available in the package manager turned out to be unavailable because the license wasn't up to debian standards. I like the gentoo approach that, although only Free Software is available by default, you can still add overrides for specific packages.
I guess if debian doesn't work out, you can always try Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Void. Distro-hopping exists as a trope for a reason :)
Also in that situation. Currently not really interested in updating. But at some point Ill have to do it. Have barley done anything and the TrueNAS Mini has just be chucking along for almost a decade now.
While your small projects with next to zero market share fight it out between themselves, Microsoft keeps swallowing more market share making more billions.
Who do you think is the real winner of your sandpit fight?
Keeping the separate projects at the national level also precludes the furious lobbying efforts against it that could target members of the union with... "friendlier ears". It also allows for smaller scale testing to work out kinks, in the same way that some US federal law started as laws in specific states.
You are right, we need to make a bloated project and need to pour in millions into it like we did with Gaia-X. Then it will be a big trash-fire with smoke visible from afar and not just some small sandpit.
Until you can bribe officials to the tune of billions the quality of your software won't matter. The only reason why ms keeps winning is that it keeps bribing.
MS also keeps winning because they have billions of dollars to pour into the UX of their Office suite. The FOSS community doesn't spend a lot of money on hiring professional UI designers, and it's "do-ocracy" doesn't handle UI design well because UI design isn't seen as "doing" so much as nitpicking the choices of the programmers who are "doing all the work".
MS bribery is a factor, but if we use it as an excuse to ignore our own faults as a community then we're just screwing ourselves over.
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