I think it's fair to assume they were talking about Linux as a desktop OS, which for some reason absolutely refuses to learn lessons from the other 99.9% of the market. And is also infatuated with internal fragmentation despite its tiny usage. That makes it really fun as a hobby for sure, and powerfully flexible for datacenter usages (from the mundane to the supercomputers). But also pretty terrible as a "I just want my laptop to work reliably & well" OS.
> I just want my laptop to work reliably & well" OS
Which I had for the best part of 2 decades. Until systemd came along, infected pretty much every mainsteram distribution, and broke things that have always just worked like DNS.
Instead people decided "ooh mac is shiny, lets copy that". If I wanted OSX, I'd use a mac. If I wanted windows, I'd use windows.
Which, worth noting, does its own thing for init & services ( https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste... ).
I think it's fair to assume they were talking about Linux as a desktop OS, which for some reason absolutely refuses to learn lessons from the other 99.9% of the market. And is also infatuated with internal fragmentation despite its tiny usage. That makes it really fun as a hobby for sure, and powerfully flexible for datacenter usages (from the mundane to the supercomputers). But also pretty terrible as a "I just want my laptop to work reliably & well" OS.