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> Desktop OS is not a distribution but set of popular GUI applications that work on that OS natively including tested specifically on it.

That's what a Linux distribution is.

> Keeping in mind that number of Linux GUI developers is in magnitude of times less

It's roughly proportional to the number of people using Windows or MacOS for serious networking applications, yes.

> Users are forced to pay extra price for hardware just to be able to run those Electron applications

What are you even talking about anymore? Linux is not responsible for shitty Electron apps, Windows and MacOS is. People wanted a univeral runtime that worked across both operating systems - neither Microsoft nor Apple budged. So the browser it is - it just came with the side-effect that other browser-enabled platforms can also run Electron. Linux is not forcing you to use bad software because Apple and Microsoft can't work together to fix desktop computing.

If you don't like the Linux desktop, fine. Go use 9front or something. It still exists though, you cannot deny it's usability because you don't like the way it does something. I dislike the way MacOS handles it's desktop, but that doesn't mean it's not a desktop OS.



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