Red Hat worker and GNOME blogger Christian F.K. Schaller has provided some thoughts on why GNU/Linux has failed to become a mainstream OS. According to Schaller, a range of issues, which include a fragmented market and lack of big-name applications, have kept Linux from reaching a bigger market.



One of the most common explanations for why it never caught on is the fragmented state of the Linux Desktop space. We got a large host of desktop projects like GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, etc., and an even larger host of distributions shipping these desktops. I used to think this state should get a lot of the blame (and still believe it owns some of the blame) but have also come to conclude that it is probably more of a symptom than a cause.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?