Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:26 UTC, submitted by sjvn
"Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It's not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They're all doing great with consumer Linux desktops." The enterprise Linux leaders are not the ones making strides on the desktop. Does that mean that the Linux desktop has no future, or just that they've let their business focus let them drop the ball on that segment of the market?
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I think David Adams is exactly right in this instance. The various Enterprise Linux "leaders" have dropped the ball. They started playing follow the leader, which in many cases turned out to be someone from corporations with an interest in big iron. So what happened? They started focus-shifting away from the home user, the hobbyist, the IT professional that liked their distro enough to think it could be scaled up for enterprise and willing to risk their jobs proving it....
Eventually someone saw there was a void and began to fill it.
That someone (right now) seems to be Canonical, and they've done wonders for the community by polishing the Linux desktop for the home users.
They've provided forums so they could foster an environment of power users who not only helped other users (defraying Canonical's support costs) but also allowing them the freedom to be hobbyists.
And now that Canonical is starting to be happy with how well their release