I don't even want linux to be mainstream.. this will inevitably lead to more for-profit enshittification of the ecosystem..
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.
For desktop Linux to be successful, it needs to be the cool different OS -- not the boring Windows that the accountants use, and not the MacOS that the art snobs and marketing hipsters use, but something appealing on its own merits.
And, arguably, that's about where it is now: 70% boring, 15% commercial hipster, 15% indie.
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.
I've gone to the extreme of writing my own OS because I got fed up with how corporate Linux has gotten