They're still doing their best to kill Linux on the desktop. Notice how, as much as .net core is cross-platform, the desktop UI side of MAUI is absolutely not,

They're still doing their best to kill Linux on the desktop. Notice how, as much as .net core is cross-platform, the desktop UI side of MAUI is absolutely not, and left 'to the community'. They do not want to enable desktop developers under Linux, as they know that a decent environment would likely remove any need for Windows in that space.