Germany and Italy learn from their mistakes. The US keeps repeating them more than any other country (except for Argentina)

But those are Americans.

Would not say equally shitty, otherwise they won’t have popular support they do.

You are correct however that they are not pro consumer.

They are just a smarter, wiser business with a sustainable business model that understands the importance of consumer trust.

As an African with access to reasonable traditional cattle farming, I can say that American beef tastes like crap. Looks amazing, but tastes like crap.

It’s not the distro that’s the problem, it’s the company that controls it.

I think the model of an open source version of a proprietary/commercial distro is broken at a business model level.

How many times over the years have we seen the commercial entity make the open source product worse on purpose.

Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE all have mixed histories with their communities.

Personally, I think a debian, arch or KDE style project, funded by donations, is much more sustainable and responsive to its communities.

True, just not opensuse.