Perfection is a Relative Term
Jack, what is perfection in your mind is not in mine, and is not for the commenter who follows me, or the one who proceeded me, and so on and so on for all Linux users. This is especially true for desktop software because it's all so subjective. Some very respected reviewers seem obsessed with image arrangement on wallpaper (I've choked more often than once to read comments to that effect reference Fedora releases). Others, are all about integration of everything into the desktop (no need for external eye-candy, email, word-processing, micro-blogging, social networking, or database apps, for example).
You seem to have your own hang-up about finding this desktop "perfection". Forget it! Just review the features, reveal the failings, and expose the wasteful crap, and leave it to the individual users to decide weather or not something I see as crap, or you see as silly, is, to them, really something they see as terribly useful.
That is the real advantage that Linux has over other systems is there is so much to chose from. The real crap-producers are those who try and force their users to accept the idea that no choice is the best choice. Those people should be shunned until their egos deflate.
