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by pjmlp 2807 days ago
They just have decided like Red-Hat did before them, that there is no money to be made on the Linux desktops and they better focus on IoT and server as long term survival plan.

There was a blog post about it.

Yet they still have one of the best laptop support.
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oblio 2807 days ago
> They just have decided like Red-Hat did before them, that there is no money to be made on the Linux desktops

And can you blame them?

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pjmlp 2807 days ago
Not at all, OS X/iOS, Windows, ChromeOS and Android is where money is for anyone that wants to sell desktop/laptop/mobile software.

And the fact that Linux kernel is at the bottom layer of ChromeOS and Android is only an implementation detail to app developers.

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