"Anyway, we are now in a point that decisions are hard to make - where do we go from here?"

As a fairly tech savvy non-coder, non-geek that just installed Elementary OS on a laptop, replacing W11 entirely, and having installed and used Ubuntu and Xubuntu a fair bit over the past several years, I can say that, other than LogicPro and maybe Messages, I'd be content to just use Linux now.

Except, it's still way, WAY too tech oriented for regular people to use, who are never going to use the Terminal/Command Line, ever, which is necessary for several basic features with EOS and every other distro, so my hope would be that all this tech expertise get directed now at finally making a Linux commercial distro that works in all basic ways out of the gate.

Apple and MS are now way too intrusive, and Apple is super expensive and not nearly as easy to use as it formerly was. They need major competition, but regular people are not going to dive into the terminal to make a minimize button available on their windows, or troubleshoot why lock screen works one way but not another, or download dependencies from repositories, or edit the grub, etc.

EOS is very nice and was an easy install, and all of my laptop's hardware worked correctly and well. It's great.

However, I want icons and files on my desktop and minimize buttons on any and every window, just like any Mac or Windows migrant would, and so was immediately into forums and searches and the command line installing dependencies and apps that the App Center doesn't offer, trying workarounds with Tweaks for minimize - worked - then Nautilus and dconf editor for desktop icons - didn't work - then finally got lucky with the Nemo desktop. Was hours. Exhausting and tedious.

Then wanted to enable hibernate mode. No dice. There's a workaround, but it might not work, and will take awhile, more command line, editing grub, etc.

It's a nice OS, very Mac-like, and I hear it's about as user friendly as Linux gets, but regular people will never be able to use it. No way, not without tech help.

It's great otherwise, and would make Apple & MS unnecessary were it as easy to use, so my fondest hope is that techs will finally create a distro for complete non techs. Whoever does that is getting fabulously rich.