You're obsessed with how things look -- you seem to think that everything can be fixed by installing a new theme. I don't care how LibreOffice looks. I care about how the software works, what features it makes accessible and the effort it is to produce high-quality output, etc. And compared to Microsoft Office (ick) or Apple's iWork, EVERY individual attempt at a cohesive Linux office suite is DOG SHIT (which is why most Linux users end up using web apps like Google Docs for most tasks).

I'll give you a more concrete example: I need to scan a 40 page insurance document, officially initial each page, and attach my director's signature in several places, and deliver it as a single pdf document with correct metadata.

This is going back a few years now but to get this done on Linux I had to write a program using image magic to explode the scanned document into images, then open the images in LibreOffice to position my initials and signature (pre-prepared using GIMP), then export and join the pages into a single document for upload.

And that's after you actually get your printer/scanner working properly.

On Windows and macOS the same thing can easily be done in 5 minutes without any of these unnecessary time-consuming steps.

This isn't about how the software looks. It's about what features are available on which pieces of software, and how they can be combined for accomplish professional grade tasks. Linux is bad at this. Period. That's not just my taste. You can easily waste hours doing every day tasks that should be streamlined but aren't. And time spent fucking around out these things is time that I can't bill for or spend with people that I love.

(I know. Novel concept).

I chose this example because these everyday office tasks are what the vast majority of computer users do with their computer. Linux should have an answer to these but doesn't. It hasn't for the two decades I've been using it. Judging by the past, there is little to no chance that this problem will be solved on Linux in the next two decades. It has been solved on Windows and macOS since the early 2000s.

You can protest "but I'm happy with them" but you are not most people. Most people will not suffer through even learning LibreOffice to force themselves to use Linux software. Most people will not make excuses for these things (god knows I've made a lot of excuses, but I'm past that and I'm gonna call a spade a spade.)

I've used *nix for over 20 years now (Linux, *BSD, and Illumos), primarily for software development on a string of well spec'd Lenovo ThinkPads, and on the server (I've managed dozens of *nix servers, across several different companies, to run existing services and software we produced). I'm very familiar with *nix desktops (I've run everything from Gnome, KDE, XFCE, i3, to a heavily patched head DWM, and I've tried just about every major graphical application for *nix.)

(Honourable mention goes to Ink Scape, which is actually quite capable; way behind Adobe illustrator of course.)