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I kind of don't want Linux to become mainstream tbh because then corporate enshittification becomes a much more real threat.
These corporate interests are the reason it works so good. If you read into the Linux mailing list, major lifting is done by these companies.
Intel, AMD, Suse, Red Hat to name a few, all they follow are their corporate interests.
Some things just need money to be thrown at, i don't have a problem with benefiting from money of corporations. It also makes it more accessible for people who are not able or willing to pay.
There are paid distros already out there, but there will always be the option to ignore them.
You cannot enshittify the GPL 🥹
That's why you just use a community run distro. Also if the kernel it self gets enshittified then I'm sure there will be a fork someone will make. Heck right now there's the libre kernel that is just the Linux kernel with no proprietary blobs
They've already tried. Ever heard of Ubuntu?