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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I tried to clarify at the end of the article that this is largely an optional choice. Most users don't have to make this choice: they can install 1 of several popular distributions and get a Gnome or Gnome-derived desktop.
There are many reasons Linux is not a competitor to Windows in the market, and while I'm not an economist, I'd wager they're similar reasons to the reason that even macOS and Chrome OS lag behind Windows. The problem isn't the number of desktop choices.
You should look at Tasks (the first on the list of this article), in that case. It does arbitrary repeat schedules — even every 3rd Tuesday (or whatever).