We need a new commercial OS. Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads, spyware, and LLM garbage.
I honestly don’t think so for any consumer focused ones.
Including it with bespoke hardware kinda works but is so expensive to actually do.
Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience.
KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica.
A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.