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Last time I checked, Ubuntu/Canonical is a multimillion dollar company, Red Hat is a multibillion dollar company, SuSE sold for $2.5B, and The Linux Foundation

Last time I checked, Ubuntu/Canonical is a multimillion dollar company, Red Hat is a multibillion dollar company, SuSE sold for $2.5B, and The Linux Foundation has over $250M in revenue to spend only 3% on development of Linux specifically. Enough of the BS of "we're just volunteers" - it's fundamentally broken and the powers that be don't care. If multiple multibillion dollar entities who already contribute don't see the Linux desktop as having a future, if Linus Torvalds himself doesn't care enough to push the Foundation on it; honestly, you probably shouldn't care either. From their perspective, it's a toy, that's only maintained, to make it easier to develop the good stuff.

skydhash 1y ago
Those companies sell server OS support, not consumer desktop. And Linux is rock solid for that purpose. Desktop Linux is OK. And I think it’s all volunteer work.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago
  OK at best. Barely functional. Incredibly unstable.
codeguro 1y ago
Get over yourself. Linus himself said Linux is just a hobby. It just happened to be the best because of the lack of red tape dragging development down. It got as big as it did BECAUSE it was a volunteer project with the right choice of license and remains the best DESPITE big corps pouring money all around it. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_interested_history_this_is_one_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_i...