@Dietrich T. Schmitz, Your Linux Advocate : Linux is fragged (said as someone who does a great deal of Linux development, for example, Time Drive: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/science-and-technology/time-drive).
The rate at which new software is released is extremely demanding and the only real way to keep on top of it is to pick one distribution's release schedule and try to follow it religiously. For Time Drive, I try and follow Ubuntu.
And, things become fragmented. Whenever I want to release a new version of Time Drive that takes advantage of new platform features (such as notifications, to cite a trivial example), I have to think long and hard about backwards compatibility/fragmentation. Will it still work on older versions (such as the previous LTS, that is still supported and in wide use)? Does it require people to upgrade other packages? Will it be stable?
That's a lot of QA for a guy who develops a program in his spare time; and is a really big problem.
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