I am a little unsure why folks keep getting convinced one new distro or another is gonna come and finally solve the Linux desktop adoption problem?

The fundamental problem linux distros have is that they dont agree on a fundamental set of libraries, user experience, or have a stable abi. We've had minimal disros before, we've had maximal install-everything distros before, and we've had special purpose distros before (ie knoppix, mythbuntu, Kali). But the same adoption problem remains.

Afaict Google and Valve have managed to meaningfully move things forward with chromeos, android, and steam OS. Tools like flatpak and others also have made a difference.

But if you're really going the typical distro route, it confounds me what the point of going outside of the typical and common debian/redhat/arch systems are especially when its one guy. Hell, I still remember SprezzOS (Nick Black's Distro) and that thing had more real goals worth praising than anything I see from Omarchy.