Comment by pengaru
3 years ago
> Linux desktop is a distro concern now. Not an ecosystem concern. It’s long left the realm of an linux concern when MacOS went free (with paid hardware of course) and Windows was giving away free windows 10 licenses to anyone who asked for it.
You seem fixated on the Free Beer misinterpretation of Free Software.
No, but it sounds that way I guess. It’s more about where the developer en-masse focus lays. Few developers are interested in the desktop for Linux because they are supported on windows or Mac and during the time period I mentioned, it didn’t cost them anything monetary.
There were indications that windows and Linux May converge. Instead we got WSL2. A lot of times we decide to develop something because of the pain of using the other thing. Sometimes we develop something as a “me too”. Sometimes we develop something that is just better. Sometimes, it’s worse.
My point is the fight for a foothold in Linux desktop looked promising for a bit. SteamOS looked like it was gaining, steam…
The reality is there are complexities at that level that people don’t want to deal with and we all have opinions on how it should work, should look, and should be called.
Red Hat (former RH’er myself) should take this on and really standardize something outside of core and server land. And no, it should not be Gnome.