> I highly doubt desktop Linux users were the cash cows Canonical was counting on in the first place. Well, actually, that was very much Canonical's original b

> I highly doubt desktop Linux users were the cash cows Canonical was counting on in the first place. Well, actually, that was very much Canonical's original business plan: polishing the Linux desktop so it could be sold to consumers and businesses. It just so happened that the virtual-machine/cloud "revolution" took place shortly after, and precisely because Ubuntu had gained mindshare by being "easy" and "polished", they had an advantage (as people preferred to use something they were already comfortable with) and became the most popular distribution for cloud deployments. Unfortunately they've since been unable to capitalize on that, partially because of bouts of "NIH" like Snaps.