One cold argue that “desktop” is merely a kind of a service

Daad, please stop

Is your system unique, though? There’s only so much of a processor architectures. And rest of differences seem to be just a fluff to me.

Because I can customize Gentoo to whatever I like

Can you customise it to support AAA videogames?

You get to actually know what code ends up in your binaries

Do you, though? Do you check e-signatures and do you look at the every row of the code?

Either way, it’s hard to have a debate with someone who is either arguing a point without understanding the other side

It’s true.

… and with high probability you will make it subpar to one maden by industry.

Don’t get me wrong, Linux sure is entertaining and powerful, but it demands you to be very very experienced with it to gain considerable profit over using proprietary stuff.

Well, swiss army knifes work… really bad in comparison with specialised tools.

It’s up to client app what to grab and shove to you, no?

Maybe it’s just that memes are the hottest material for now.

Lemmy also has it.