To be fair, Linux on the Wii was also quite good: I remember running Debian 5 Lenny on my Wii many years ago, and it seemed to be "just" a different kernel with drivers for the Wii hardware but with the normal userspace / repos. With an USB mouse and keyboard this was even somewhat usable, even with X11 and some lightweight window manager. Of course RAM was quite limited with only 80MB in total, but still. It definitely wasn't as hacky or limited as DSLinux.
