Cinnamon 2.0 released - mixed feelings

Cinnamon 2.0 released - mixed feelings

while they have done a lot of good directed (if sometimes controversial) work on other parts of the stack, it appears that they have deferred responsibility for the desktop entirely to the various upstreams, which at least from the perspective of a Fedora user has set the Linux desktop back by at least four or five years.

Red Hat employs a very sizeable (if not the largest) chunk of Fedora developers. Red Hat makes money from servers, and Fedora acts as a testing sandbox for various server-focused technologies (ie. Fedora is a perpetual alpha for RHEL). Red Hat doesn't really make money from the desktop, and hence it doesn't care about desktops.

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