This is a very interesting article and to be fair while I agree with the author's conclusions that it would be great to have a standard Linux distro to refer to, I thought we had already hit that point with Ubuntu.

Nowadays, I have seen quite a few download software pages that simply list Ubuntu rather than Linux.

Anyways, for those complaining about how difficult it is to get anything to work with linux those days were 10 years ago, I invite you to spin up a Ubuntu VM and give it a test drive :)

(Happy linux user since 13 years)