There's nothing preventing you from running Java based applications on Linux. Probably there's already a JRE bundled with the commercial applications you're usi

There's nothing preventing you from running Java based applications on Linux. Probably there's already a JRE bundled with the commercial applications you're using. The problem here is some people thought it would be a great idea to use their distribution package manager to also manage Java libraries. Since those are normally bundled with applications you have to manage a lot of incompatible versions and dependencies requiring you to package the entire ecosystem which is a herculean task. That's not a question of boring work but of not being able to scale because you want the whole ecosystem on your terms while not providing value to end users. (and quite a lot of negative value since all packages including the base JDK have been out of date on average the last 15 years)