I don't even want linux to be mainstream.. this will inevitably lead to more for-profit enshittification of the ecosystem..

Some of us are old enough to remember Corel Linux. It was about as mainstream as Linux could have gotten.

It shipped with WordPerfect Office, which was still neck and neck with Microsoft Office at the time, including WordPerfect, Quattro, Corel Presentations, Corel Draw, all there.

It had migration tools to move Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook, mIRC, and ICQ settings, and Windows registry settings to Corel Linux.

It shipped with a Wine-based Windows application compatibility layer out of the box.

It lasted less than a year.

The way that happens is if you don't make the ethos of Linux mainstream.

It can't just be a means to an end; that's what happened to Android. You make it an expectation that everything on a given box be FLOSS.

it's already happened. So many of the main contributors work for IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. It's extremely difficult to have your voice heard / patches accepted if you're just a hobbyist developer

I've gone to the extreme of writing my own OS because I got fed up with how corporate Linux has gotten

how?

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