I don't even think it's bugs that Linux desktops have a problem with. The Linux desktop is really only good if you are a hacker and don't give any thought to tasteful design or coherent usability.
Maybe when the Chinese bubble crashes the present crop of neo-totalitarians and anti-democracy reactionaries will shut up. I am referring to those elements of both the alt-right and the totalitarian left who look to China (and similarly to Singapore) and pine for the miraculous efficiency of central planning and authoritarian rule by strong men. If only we had a king (or a one-party state or similar) we too could build infrastructure at breakneck speed and prop up the economy forever instead of dealing with the messy inefficiencies of democracy and consensus.
People were just as psyched out by the USSR. It looked miraculous until the 1980s. The Nazis psyched people out too. We didn't get to see how that one would have turned out long term because they blew themselves off the map with an insane war on two fronts but my guess would be similar to the USSR: a little period of apparently miraculous progress followed by rapid stagnation, being eaten alive by cancerous corruption, and collapse transitioning to something like Russia's present-day mafia state.
It's easier to go from zero to one than from one to N. Totalitarian regimes are very good at copying and rapidly implementing things they already know how to do, so they tend to go from zero to one with breathtaking speed. Then they hit a wall because their totalitarianism prohibits innovation (either cultural or technological) and is very fragile. The economic miracle ends when they run out of stuff to copy and usually their politics goes to hell when the Great Leader and/or revolutionary generation dies.
Social democracy sucks at rapid execution on the known. I get frustrated with it just like the next person. But it's the only system with a demonstrated track record of continuously marching into the unknown and of defending itself for long periods of time against extreme corruption.
Leading consumer market governments have been using progressive import controls for many decades to do exactly that. It may not be trivial and it may not be free, but this task is no different in principle from how California's CARB forced carmakers worldwide to adopt more stringent NOx emissions standards, or European regulators forced safer food additives to be used worldwide, or the US FDA forced more stringent drug safety standards worldwide.
Even private companies can be pretty good at this, when someone has to pay for the damage: the IIHS is private (it was formed because NHTSA was not doing as good of a job as insurance companies wanted) and effectively dictates car safety standards on a global scale.
Psychopaths are parasites - one could make the argument that most of human culture, including our marriage traditions, religions, moral codes of conduct, sense of humor, and even fashion, are evolutionary attempts to thwart them.
Programmers with lots of hours of maintaining code eventually evolve to return early, sorting exit conditions at top and meat of the methods at the bottom.
Same way you evolve out of one liners.
Same way comments are extra weight that should only be in public or algorithm/need to know areas.
Same way braces go on the end of the method/class name to reduce LOC.
Same way you move on from heavy OO to dicts/lists.
Same way you go more composition instead of inheritance.
Same way while/do/while usually fades away, and if needed exit conditions.
Same way you move on from single condition bracket-less ifs. (debatable but more merge friendly and OP hasn't yet)
Same way you get joy deleting large swaths of code.
and many others on and on.
Usually these come from hours of writing/maintaining code and styles that lead to bugs.
