Don’t know what’s special about this one. Ikey Doherty though is well known for starting new distros. Managing to get them into a relatively stable and semi-popular state. Then leaving and starting a new distro. Seems very capable. No idea what happens behind the scenes for him to keep dropping out from the distros he founds

I remember when Solus (I think it was called Evolution or Evolve OS first) and people were calling Ikey leaving the project to start a new one eventually. Always happens

It’s funny to frame it as bravery. Maybe that’s clickbait strategy. Regardless desktop Linux is great. Only a handful of kernel level anticheat games are a problem. No you don’t need adobe suite for your YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok influencer aspirations. Even open source applications that don’t stack up to Adobe or Avid or whatever exceed what’s needed to succeed in social media. More than enough for what amounts to solo projects

I feel like things in the consumer software space for Linux is getting there like desktop Linux ~10 years ago. Waydroid is solid. Android translation layer is in development. Valve with Steam machines.

Krita and GIMP look to be in good positions. Kdenlive doesn’t crash all the time anymore. Can have good consumer interest synergy between regular Linux/SteamOS/Pop_OS if they ever get big selling hardware and Linux phones

Android apps needed as part of the proposition now. But eventually over many many years there should eventually be a good ecosystem of Linux native phone apps