alt Hacker NewsThat isn't it. Generally whatever the majority of users tend to use that where the majority of focus goes.
The vast majority of people that were using Linux on the desktop before 2015 were either hobbyists, developers or people that didn't want to run proprietary software for whatever reason.
These people generally didn't care about a lot of fancy tech mentioned. So this stuff didn't get fixed.
There’s some truth to that, but a lot of (maybe most) Linux desktop users are on laptops and yet there are many aspects of the Linux laptop experience that skew poor.
I think the bigger problem is that commercial use cases suck much of the air out of the room, leaving little for end user desktop use cases.