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Unfortunately, I guess Ubuntu Desktop won't last much, too. Can Canonical make money from that? Nope. They even made their product less appealing when they help
by severino 10y ago
Unfortunately, I guess Ubuntu Desktop won't last much, too. Can Canonical make money from that? Nope. They even made their product less appealing when they helped Microsoft run it inside their OS.
I always thought Canonical wouldn't be around much longer, and these news seems to confirm that. I'd, as a long time Ubuntu user, miss them.
- m45t3r 10y agoThe great advantage that Ubuntu have by being the most popular Desktop distro is not making money from desktop users. The advantage is that some of those desktop users are also developers, so when they need to deploy their system in Server/Cloud/IoT/whatever, they choose Ubuntu because this is the distro that they developed their application to begin with. So yeah, desktop is a afterthought for Canonical, however it is still important.
- severino 10y agoYes but, can Canonical make a business out of that? They get no (significant) money either from people using their system in embedded platforms or cloud servers.
- ex3ndr 10y agoThere no need to use Ubuntu if you can use debian. Debian is almost same and very light. Ubuntu doesn't feels like this.
- int_19h 10y ago> They even made their product less appealing when they helped Microsoft run it inside their OS Why does it make it less appealing? Ubuntu userspace running inside WSL is still Ubuntu. If you need support for it, you'd still go to them, same as if you would if you were running it in a VM or on dedicated hardware.
- severino 10y agoBecause those users count as Windows users, for the market share. That means companies don't bother about Ubuntu. They also won't use the rest of the software Canonical bundles, for browsing the internet, writing documents, etc. It's only Microsoft who gets a benefit from this.