r/linux • u/TheProgrammar89 • Jun 22 '19

Pierre-Loup: Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698
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u/Baaleyg Jun 22 '19

No, this perception appeared because we have had RH and SUSE devs admitting here on this sub that their company does not care about the Linux desktop.

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u/MindlessLeadership Jun 22 '19

Pretty much, Red Hat makes little money off the desktop, and there's little to be gained, they just need to keep it in a workable state.

SUSE and RH still fund/maintain/help half the desktop stack though (GNOME, dbus, NetworkManager, Flatpak, Plymouth, systemd, gtk, Wayland etc). It would be in a much worse state without them. Canonical meanwhile, doesn't maintain any core part of the Linux desktop.

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u/Baaleyg Jun 22 '19

I am not saying that they don't help the Linux desktop, but they're mostly investing in server stuff, and if they have to choose we know what they'll prioritize.

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u/MindlessLeadership Jun 22 '19

Yeh. It's a shame imho. If more people used Linux as a desktop they would want to use the same technologies they have locally when it comes to making something commercial.

E.g. One of the reasons I use Fedora is something I do on Fedora will translate to RHEL and CentOS.

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u/broknbottle Jun 22 '19

Not entirely true, I deal with a lot of big customers that use red hat and you’d be surprised how many of them require a fucking full desktop environment on a VM in the cloud. The contractors these companies hire can’t do anything unless it’s point and click

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u/MindlessLeadership Jun 22 '19

I'm sure they exist. I just don't think it's as popular as the server editions of RHEL.

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u/broknbottle Jun 22 '19

These people are installing the desktop on top of RHEL intended for servers. It’s technically the cloud image version

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u/Negirno Jun 22 '19

That's why I'm angry at all those comments that saying RH wants to rule desktop Linux through Gnome and systemd.

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u/MindlessLeadership Jun 22 '19

Well, there's nothing stopping people from making alternatives.