What would it take to fix Linux?

that's not the problem with linux, though. if you're new use ubuntu. once you're used to it, you'll know what you want. the point of distros is to cover many usecases.

They all give back to the one Linux, so I don't see the problem. Simply being used in many places does not mean Linux is fragmented.

freetards will never fix anything

but, the way microsoft is going... windows is going to reach linux levels of broken/unusable

Linux is the most used kernel in the world. Hell, Linux based OS such as GNU/Linux or Android are the most important to the world: they either power the Internet (not just the Web) or millions of shitty consumer devices.

Winshit and AppleBSD are just mostly good because of a few outstanding softwares and games developed for them.

The problem with Linux is that every userspace API tend to change and break stuff at each upgrade of the distribution, the Linux userspace is a joyful and annoying mess. Meanwhile on Shitdows I can run very very old soft, on Linux I can't because it will need old libs like libssl-dev-0.0.1, or it's not systemd compatible and it's a mess to manage all those dependencies: you have to learn stuff you don't want to learn or grab the old lib and compile the shit yourself or setup chroot jail or docker shits those days…

Linux is for professionals, it's not a toy OS like memedos and fagBSDbyApple

You know the biggest contributors to Linux are companies like Google, Intel, Microsoft, and IBM, right?

So why not have 5 to 10 distros that cover every conceivable use case?

Linux on servers and other enterprise/science/whatever specialized seems to be doing good.
If you are about desktop the only thing that can fix it is interest of corporation to fix it.
I guess RedHat can try (if the ever want to pour money into that).

a single distribution with uniform design guidelines for software and UX
everything else goes into le trash for creating this distro fragmentation hell

But it isn't a problem to anyone.
Very few things are distro specific these days.
The only way this poses a problem is where a developer can't update the software because there are too many scripts to run but small projects shouldn't deal with that.

Far more talent than basements can provide.

We have Ubuntu, fedora, arch, centos and openSUSE. That is 5. What is the next problem?

>Very few things are distro specific these days.
Even more of an argument to have a single good distro, then

cuz anyone can make them

centos is the only decent one on there

Linux should be replaced entirely. The replacement should have a microkernel, CLI should use a real language none of this archaic bash shit or emulating 1970s technology, no pointless fragmentation, and most importantly should have no dynamic linking.

women and minorities

STANDARDIZED STABLE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT THAT IS NOT XORG

GuixSD seems to be close to what you want, it'll support Hurd soon