> he credited Canonical's failed Unity desktop approach for helping the company become more profitable than ever, as the issue forced the business to focus on server, cloud, and IoT offerings.

This is quite a way to spin a negative into a positive.

As a long-time Linux user, I'm okay with this. I used to think Mint was an easier transition for Windows users, but Ubuntu is likely the 'sweet spot' for the general public.

Meanwhile, I've mostly moved to Debian.

Isn't this guy one of the first to declare "the year of Linux on the desktop" back around 1998?

Plan all they want, Snap is trash, gnome is painful and for someone who was sused to using one version of windows for a decade updating to a different animal version every year or so is a head fuck.

Backward compatibility is a unique Windows advantage that many Linux promoters underestimate and many of their converts only discover after the fact.

100% I know people still using ME money from 20 years ago

So.. use KDE and Flatpak?

This seems to be the way to go. Do you rate/have you tied the KDE Linux distribbaed or arch?