What a wonderful world!

The problem is that presentations made with Powerpoint 2007+ often don't display in the right way on Impress. People don't even understand this and they are unable to hadle the difference and blame linux for it, instead of Microsoft. Nobody will ever try to make a presentation that is compatible with anything else than Powerpoint because they don't understand the problem. I had to throw money on office licences for my company just for this. It's sad but it's the reality.

Why?

I blame them

IBM and Red Hat Linux Ads are very good, better than Apple's reality distortion field ones.

... and they lag irl

You can't be italian and say the best pizza you had is in a Pizza Hut in Germany. LOL Pizza outside Italy is a different thing. The american one is a variation, a good one if you like it, but it's another thing. In other european countries it just sucks.

The project ended in 2002 :p

To be honest, Linux doesn't need to gain acceptance. It already has it, you just don't see it. It will never be on the desktop pc of the common user but the desktop pc as we know it won't last long. On different devices users interact with linux without problems because the point is not the underlaying operating system but the interface you interact with. Android is an example, the average user's Sony camera is another, and so many others. And you can't even say there's not hardware support, as in facts, Linux runs on old and modern pc hardware, on cameras, on network equip and appliances of all kinds, on ip phones, on mobile phones, on 87% of supercomputers, on consoles, etc. Oh, and there are no proprietary things in linux distributions.