Sure, but that just means a failure of Linux as a product experience.
Users don't make that distinction, even a little bit.
This is also arguably a failure of the open source model in practice (though not in theory). It tends to generate projects that are really good at infrastructure and really bad at product.
The ones who fill in the product experience as best they can are the companies that are trying to get paying customers, because those customers won't stand for a weird experience, regardless of the technical/governmental reasons
Users don't make that distinction, even a little bit.
This is also arguably a failure of the open source model in practice (though not in theory). It tends to generate projects that are really good at infrastructure and really bad at product. The ones who fill in the product experience as best they can are the companies that are trying to get paying customers, because those customers won't stand for a weird experience, regardless of the technical/governmental reasons