It really opens the market for a commercial RedHat-like offering. There are already those out there, and Microsoft is working really hard to piss off most of us with bad updates and AI.

Their October update forced me to do a clean reinstall. That NEVER happened before.

We need a new commercial OS. Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads, spyware, and LLM garbage.

> Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads

I honestly don’t think so for any consumer focused ones.

Including it with bespoke hardware kinda works but is so expensive to actually do.

Someone should work on Linux to make something better than gnome or kde and charge for it. I would pay.

Why not donate to gnome or kde to improve those directly?

I don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base.

Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience.

KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica.

A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.

Those 750$ M4 mac books are going to be forced to be reckoned with if they keep this shit up

If Apple does indeed come out with an A series based laptop for $500 it should really help out Apple with marketshare.