I don't really think it is impossible to gather all that under one roof. However I tend to think that perhaps we have to much in the distributions. Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution?

A common packaging of common apps should simplify a lot.

Windows is slow, heavy and "bloated" because it is monolithic and not optimized. They keep adding functions without bothering to improve them once they have them. Also it is one single large blob, not organized in packages like Linux. Also there is to much spaghetti in the code making it hard to modularize core functionality often depends on binaries that are not core functionality.

The MinWin team is improving on this but it will take time....

> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:20:52 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
> 
> Hi :)
> Windows tries to be all things for all people on all hardware (not including Arm, hand-helds, netbooks, 'old' or low-spec hardware, phones, Apple hardware, Sony Playstation, embedded devices, servers, firewalls, routers and so on).  The result is that it is very slow, heavy and "bloated".  It's difficult to streamline for any particular purpose.  It's very vulnerable to a wide range of malware and viruses.  
> 
> Even distros that have the same general idea tend to aim at slightly
> different niches in the market.  Mostly the wide variety is so that very
> different types of use can still have choices.
> 
> Between the different distros it is co-operative competition.  
> Regards from
> Tom :)
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/4/12, vekotin <> wrote:
> 
> <snip />
> 
> I think that by dividing into masses of distros and not working more
> together, caused that very own problem of linux.
> 
> <snip />
> 
> And moreover, some things work in Fedora and openSUSE - and not in
> ubuntu, so how on earth open source can't make that open source thing
> work in reality?
> 
> <snip />
> 
> Aim must be good alternatives, not just amount of alternatives.
> 
> <snip />
> 
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> Title:
>   Microsoft has a majority market share
> 
> Status in Club Distro:
>   Confirmed
> Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
>   New
> Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
>   Invalid
> Status in dylan.NET:
>   Invalid
> Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
>   Invalid
> Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
>   Invalid
> Status in JAK LINUX:
>   Invalid
> Status in LibreOffice:
>   In Progress
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
>   New
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
>   In Progress
> Status in The Linux OS Project:
>   In Progress
> Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
>   In Progress
> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
>   In Progress
> Status in Tabuntu:
>   Invalid
> Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
>   Invalid
> Status in Tv-Player:
>   Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
>   In Progress
> Status in Ubuntu:
>   In Progress
> Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
>   In Progress
> Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
>   Invalid
> Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
>   Invalid
> Status in Arch Linux:
>   New
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
>   Invalid
> Status in “linux” package in Debian:
>   In Progress
> Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
>   Confirmed
> Status in openSUSE:
>   In Progress
> Status in Tilix Linux:
>   New
> 
> Bug description:
>   Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
>   This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
> 
>   Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
>   restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
>   limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
>   potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
> 
>   Steps to repeat:
> 
>   1. Visit a local PC store.
> 
>   What happens:
>   2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
>   3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
> 
>   What should happen:
>   1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
>   2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
>   3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
> 
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