Comment by qudat

FOSS OS dev is slow but is built on cross collaboration so the foundation is strong. Corporate OS has the means to tune to end user usage and can move very fast when business interests align with user experience.

When you are a DE that’s embedded in FOSS no one has an appetite to fund user experience the same way as corporate OS can.

We do have examples where this can work, like with the steam deck/steamOS but it’s almost counter to market incentives because of how slow dev can become.

I see the same problem with chat and protocol adoption. IRC as a protocol is too slow for companies who want to move fast and provide excellent UX, so they ditch cross collaboration in order to move fast.