Linus highlights several pain points with regards to desktop Linux. From DebConf 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8 0:00 Application distribution is a huge PITA 2:52 Distros break things and ignore backwards compat. 5:53 Distros waste too much effort on package management 8:26 Linus roasts his own package maintainer 8:50 Windows has a better app distribution experience 9:29 Linux distros expect users to compile everything