Hint: VHS versus the technically superior Video2000. The best system isn't always the most popular.
Oh yes, I remember Video 2000 quite well. It was certainly a nice VCR system at its time (I had several Grundig and Philips V2000 VCRs back then).
Was it technically superior than VHS and Beta? Yes.
Was it better? No, not really.
One reason why it wasn't more popular was because it suffered from lots of flaws. For example, Philips was stupid enough to violate their own standard with their first recorders (Grundig used U loading while Philips used M loading, and the first Philips V2000 recorders had their Audio/Sync head mounted on the wrong spot so that tapes recorded with a Grundig recorder had a roughly 0.5s delay in audio). Both Grundig and Philips recorders (as their rebadges sold by by Nordmende, Siemens, Loewe and others) have generally been very unreliable (the Philips VR2000 Series suffered from mechanical issues because of the wire system in its M loading mechanism, and the older Grundig 2x4 recorders failed because of crappy connectors, overheating controllers and bad ESD protection), only the later Grundig 2x4 and 2x8 recorders were more reliable, but at that time Video2000 had already lost. The tapes also suffered from low reliability, mainly because of the complex cassette housing and because of the uneven wear caused by V2000 only using half of the tape width.
Another reason V2000 failed was because essentially it was a product of only two companies (Grundig and Philips) which were reluctant to offering licenses as they both wanted to be sole OEMs for the platform. VHS on the other side was widely licensed at low costs, and even Sony offered licenses for its Betamax system (non-Sony VCRs could only call themselves 'Beta', though).
V2000's only real advantage was its playtime (2x4hrs per tape at SP, later 2x8hrs per tape at LP), but VHS quickly catched up with 4 head LP recorders which offered much lower per hour media costs than Video 2000. The same is true for other features (i.e. ATF).
"Technically superior" does not necessarily mean "better". Video2000 was an over-engineered insular solution which took forever to sort out its many issues and was priced way out of the market. VHS on the other hand was kept simple, and the cheap licensing meant that it was offered by many manufacturers who all could compete in price and features. The picture quality was also good enough, and subsequent improvements (i.e. Stereo and later Hifi, LP, auto tracking, index search, S-VHS etc) were quickly introduced.
Sorry but in the eyes of consumers world wide VHS clearly was the better system.
McDonalds probably serves more food than a 4 star restaurant but does that make the food in the 4 star restaurant crap?
Not sure what this has to do with the discussion, but I get the feeling you somehow seem to believe that Linux is written by elven coders in unicorn land where thanks to pixie dust everything is bug free and highly optimized. I'm sorry to disappoint you but this isn't the case. Linux used to be hacked together mostly by volunteers of which many had no clue about conceptual code design or proper software development, and nowadays it's mostly maintained by experienced developers similar to those working on Windows or OS X. That doesn't mean there still isn't a lot of shit code in Linux or other FOSS programs (which there is), though.
So if you want to suggest that Windows is the McDonalds food and Linux the 4 star restaurant then sorry but this comparison is nonsense.