Linus would disagree and there’s a reason why the kernel keeps a 1000 ft wall up at all times. He would outright reject majority of user land code with good reason. It’s a miracle that anything outside of the kernel works and it shows very often. People seem to forget how often distros shit the bed on every update and how frequently people have to rebuild the entire fucking thing to get it to work again. Updating is an incredibly stressful procedure for production anything. I haven’t even gotten to audio and video - that’s a separate Fuck You ft. Wayland mix. So no, Windows is the gold standard in many ways, precisely because it’s mercilessly fucked from every which way and manages to run every day across a bajillion machines doing critical things. I don’t care about who is being financially compensated and who isn’t - the depth of decision making shows itself in the musings of Raymond Chen and others, and that level of thoroug thinking is very rare, even in the OSS world.