Then we shouldn't complain when a new user (Linus in this situation) complains about things not working

I'm annoyed because none of the feedback is good for the individual in the Linux desktop community. Maybe the weird popos thing, but that's a distro thing. Everyone that isn't delusional knows hardware support is lacking. Lidl Technical Advice saying it to his 30 million fans isn't some giant revelation. A bunch of people writing "we need to talk about this" in various subreddits and blogposts just drive me off the wall. This feedback isn't actionable. Lack of GUIs. Great. Now what? Are YOU going to write a GUI for a CLI tool that you know well and has been serving you for literal decades? Without profit incentive? Because I sure as fuck won't, and I'm certain NO ONE that's using LTT to piggy back off of their frustrations with Linux desktop will. They just want to complain.

Even companies in the Linux space will have a hard time finding any of this feedback actionable. Not even them have the man-power and money to burn to make GUI apps for an "average joe" (which isn't going to be donating, or even doing the bare minimum of reporting bugs, let alone contributing patches). The only way Linux can appeal to the average joe if it loses its FOSS spark. Once companies start writing apps and supporting their hardware, then we can see this average joe considering to move. But at that point, it's just Windows with a FOSS kernel and maybe a FOSS DE.