Here are two things I feel I don't understand about a number of quite similar "desktop distributions".
One, what's the target user? Is it really every type of desktop computing? In that case you're competing with not only KDE but also GNOME, even if we confine ourselves to Linux based desktops. Two major desktops are already a bit much for such a narrow market. I totally get doing something for friends or for the joy of it, but any semi-commercial endeavour pretty much needs to outcompete them both.
It's not like GNOME's problem is too slow development which some healthy competition can fix. Seriously, I don't think I am a completely atypical user when I value most importantly my desktop to stick around for the next decade, and work with whatever new hardware changes that comes around without annoying me too much along the way.
Two, are you developing a desktop environment or a Linux distribution? In the latter case, you're competing with massive projects like Debian and Fedora. The testing required to release a general Linux distribution on just one architecture is enormous. Security response must bascially never sleep if users should be kept from risk. If the answer is "both" I don't know what to say really.
I'm not saying there should never be any more Linux distributions, or that the computing desktop is perfect as it is. Far from it. I'm just saying that competing with the established projects here is realistically going to take a decade or more, and maybe finding a niche other than a general desktop for everyone might be a good start.
One, what's the target user? Is it really every type of desktop computing? In that case you're competing with not only KDE but also GNOME, even if we confine ourselves to Linux based desktops. Two major desktops are already a bit much for such a narrow market. I totally get doing something for friends or for the joy of it, but any semi-commercial endeavour pretty much needs to outcompete them both.
It's not like GNOME's problem is too slow development which some healthy competition can fix. Seriously, I don't think I am a completely atypical user when I value most importantly my desktop to stick around for the next decade, and work with whatever new hardware changes that comes around without annoying me too much along the way.
Two, are you developing a desktop environment or a Linux distribution? In the latter case, you're competing with massive projects like Debian and Fedora. The testing required to release a general Linux distribution on just one architecture is enormous. Security response must bascially never sleep if users should be kept from risk. If the answer is "both" I don't know what to say really.
I'm not saying there should never be any more Linux distributions, or that the computing desktop is perfect as it is. Far from it. I'm just saying that competing with the established projects here is realistically going to take a decade or more, and maybe finding a niche other than a general desktop for everyone might be a good start.