Currently, Red Hat is almost exclusively steering the Linux desktop using "freedesktop.org" and other proxies, which make it look like a "community", which it isn't. It's a completely corporate operation.
One of RH's biggest customers is the US government, or more specific the US military. It's well known, that the military doesn't have the brightest people in their lower ranks, but these people must be able to use current computerized weaponry, too. So it is very likely, that Red Hat dumbed-down the Linux desktop for a very important customer. Which makes it unusable as a general-purpose desktop.
So the main question is: Why would anyone with a MacBook running OS X switch to something like a front-end GUI of a UAV remote control unit to develop software for it?
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One of RH's biggest customers is the US government, or more specific the US military. It's well known, that the military doesn't have the brightest people in their lower ranks, but these people must be able to use current computerized weaponry, too. So it is very likely, that Red Hat dumbed-down the Linux desktop for a very important customer. Which makes it unusable as a general-purpose desktop.
So the main question is: Why would anyone with a MacBook running OS X switch to something like a front-end GUI of a UAV remote control unit to develop software for it?