I recognized many personally and clicked on some but not most or all. Now that you mentioned it, I click on more to find that your right: some references straight up contradict the claim being made. Wth... Might have to make a revised version of it.<p>Many of them are hardware-related but you can&#x27;t solely blame it on proprietary hardware. The times where work was put in got things done. Tons of work has been put into Linux with all kinds of features and fixes. There&#x27;s even enterprise distro&#x27;s aimed at business desktops bringing in revenue. Yet, core functionality for desktops has problems it&#x27;s had for a long time that can only be explained by lack of effort.<p>So, author&#x27;s (and my) point still stands even after knocking out bad references or ignoring truly hardware-specific problems. If you doubt it, just check out autotools to see the state of software maintenance that sometimes shows up in FOSS UNIX&#x27;s. ;)