> So? The same has been the case for desktop Linux in general, for 2 decades.

Some of us have been running Linux desktops for over two decades. Nothing more fun than setting Modelines manually for your VESA card:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline

Desktop linux actually worked pretty well in 2003 for my purposes. I started on Fedora Core 1. I burned a dvd hit the magic key to select a boot target booted it up told the installer what time zone I was in and what disks it could use and such details and rebooted after a while.

Wine sucked and there was less software existed but it was perfectly possible to do the normal tasks one did with a computer.

Back on my IBM 386/75MHz (yes, really), linux could only boot at 25MHz, yet its desktop environment was faster, prettier and more featureful than Windows @75MHz

Edit: I guess it was a 486 in a 386 motherboard. Windows was definitely slower at 75MHz than Linux at 25MHz though:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/sandy55/Interposer/386_upgrade.html#R...

Linux desktop has been perfectly fine for at least 1.5 of those decades.

My Gentoo/Xfce multiple monitors with Nvidia has been great for at least 10 years.

Linux Desktop is Great. Wayland is still in the process of becoming great (I think it's making good progress too)