Defending your right to exist as you are

I was thinking last night about Linux apologists. You've probably met one, those people who try to defend Linux at every turn and insist it's the best at everything. People who love to remain adamant that desktop Linux will overtake Windows. It won't. The desktop Linux toolkit we have today was fundamentally built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. Windows, as an example, was built for the consumer and the business man, from 1 to NT to 11. From around ME and onwards, they moved nearly everything to GUIs. An average user will never have to use the command line. The standard toolkit used for functioning desktop Linux environments (GNU/BusyBox, X11/Wayland, Pulse/Pipewire, GTK/Qt) still expect that you either have knowledge of the system you're running, that you are willing to edit config files and use the CLI for anything and potentially everything. Distros like Debian or OpenSUSE have historically done a good job at hiding this and building a GUI wrapper for everything and anything -…