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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by csande17 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:09PM (#27797966)
It's important to remember that GNOME is primarily funded/developed by Red Hat, who are owned by IBM. Red Hat's goal isn't to make something for the kind of person who would install Linux on a laptop themselves -- they're trying to make a clone of macOS they can sell in bulk to enterprise customers. The intended user population is very different.
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by _d7dt on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:52PM (#27798338)
I'm not sure where you heard any of that, but I have never heard any Red Hat employees say anything to that effect, ever. Fedora still exists, and to me that seems perfectly fine to install on a random laptop.
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by pjmlp on Sunday July 11, 2021 @02:17AM (#27798805)
Not necessarily with that line of thought, Red-Hat has already acknowledged many years ago that there is no money to be made on the GNU/Linux desktop (Mandrake, SuSE and Canonical also found out years later).

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536558/red-hat-sees-n...

https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/

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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by csande17 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:14AM (#27798617)
It may surprise you to learn that Red Hat's primary revenue stream is not Fedora, but a separate distribution called "Red Hat Enterprise Linux".
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by zxzax on Sunday July 11, 2021 @02:59AM (#27798951)
Sure, but that shouldn't really matter to an ordinary Fedora user, at least not to the ones I've heard from.
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by csande17 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:04AM (#27799179)
If Fedora (or GNOME, for that matter) fits your needs, you should feel free to use it! But if you're wondering, like the grandparent comments, why projects like GNOME seem to be moving away from fitting your needs, the answer is that they're being designed for Red Hat's enterprise customers first and any use you get out of them is a happy afterthought.
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by zxzax on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:31AM (#27801114)
Again I'm not sure where you got that, I have not heard any Red Hat or Fedora developers say that's the focus. In fact if you follow GNOME development, there are various other directions that people are pulling in. It might be the case coincidentally for some things, but that could be yet another one of those happy afterthoughts.
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