Very good question. The answer doesn't exist today, unless somehow billions of dollars pours into ReactOS for it to be compatible with Windows 11, but another utopian and unrealistic chance of that happening.
We are looking for a full desktop open source to Windows so GNU/Linux doesn't count as an alternative, and neither does Wine. But the closest to answering that is ReactOS despite it not being a realistic alternative for the end user today.
I meant a modern GUI oriented OS that's stable (see glibc 2.36 breaking EAC and other apps*) and nice to develop for.
Compatibility with Windows or POSIX would be amazing but not required.
* Yeah, I get it. Changing from `DT_HASH` to `DT_GNU_HASH` had to happen at some point. Backwards compatibility is a real chore, and not what glibc maintainers bound themselves to.
Whilst it's not particular nice to develop for, Android sits on the Linux kernel. I haven't heard any convincing argument not to consider Android a "Linux for the desktop", in the sense of mass adoption and people using it as their everyday device.
Yeah. I've been hearing about Linux Desktop for the last 20 years. It's 31 year old.
I think either desktops will disappear (replaced by commodified computers like Androids/Chromebooks);
Or a large company will set some kind of standard what Linux OS is; Or some other OSS OS will not make same mistakes Linux did and guarantee a saner target for app development than current Linux.
I want (3) to happen (e.g. Serenity OS blows up and just devours Linux marketshare). I suspect (1) will happen - Microsoft/Google/Apple just make their locked down garden and Desktop computers go the way of the Dodo.
