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It's also a tech issue. Linux Desktop is a mess and breaks constantly as soon as you start to tweak it. And every damn plug in is maintained by a few different people with no commitment of backwards compatibility. It's a disaster and incredibly time intensive to troubleshoot every broken desktop on patches.
Linux is great for running technology services. Linux DE is and has been a disaster for 20 years now.
Wtf is "Linux desktop"? There are more than a dozen different mainstream desktop environments and window managers that have different degrees of maturity, stability and complexity so this blank statement is very hard to support. Not even talking about the servers/prtocols behind it. I can certainly not confirm that experience on Sway, Gnome and Hyprland and with how young the latter is, I would actually expect it to break.
So no, from a technical perspective, Linux is absolutely ready as long as you stick to stable distros and configurations.
Edit: wording
Lolol gnome, stable, 🤣🤣🤣
And I guess kdes swap to Wayland has been an easy joy for most people. I definitely don't see bitching every other week about electron apps breaking.
KDE is still working great on X11, which is the standard for most users anyway.
👌👍 whatever you say.