On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
If you are asking about RHEL Workstation as a Windows Desktop replacement, I don’t believe that’s part of Red Hat’s strategic objective. Maybe for large engineering or animation workshops but not as a general computing devices.
That isn’t to say you can’t use it that way, I’ve done it for a large part of my career as a desktop Linux sysadmin. But your question is about whether IBM or Red Hat would promote it as a Windows replacement.
I suggest Fedora Workstation instead of Windows.
The thing that gets brought up to me if I ever mention Linux to a friend is gaming. He's into all that World of Warcraft immersive fantasy and 3D shoot-em-up stuff. High-resolution graphics, high frame rate, probably only released for Windows stuff.
I'm not into gaming, at all. I probably played Tetris a few times on Fedora while stuck waiting on the phone several years ago. Go back 20 years, I dabbled with Midtown Madness on Win98, with just about enough stupidity and fun to make it playable, even on my basic PC. Go back to the 1990s, and Deluxe Pacman on the Amiga 1200 was about my limit. Three different games... "Woo." (said very dully).