<story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bubblethink</author><text>This is excellent news for the simple reason that the business goals are aligned for desktop linux. Nobody makes money on desktop linux and it&amp;#x27;s in a terrible state. Canonical gave up on this and is chasing snaps for servers, IoT, etc. RH also makes money only on servers. Other players are too small and won&amp;#x27;t have consistent revenue to invest any resources. If S76 becomes a successful h&amp;#x2F;w vendor, at least it is in their interest to make desktop suck less.</text></comment>
<story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>As far as I can tell, this is the extent of what’s been discussed in public (mmstick is a System76 engineer)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; mmstick: It will be its own desktop.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; SevenSidedSube: Will the DE be forked from GNOME?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; mmstick: No it is its own thing written in Rust.&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, it’s encouraging to see a large GUI project in Rust as it will surely lift the (nascent) state of the art there in that area. In the best case, maybe this will get me back on Linux for the desktop.</text></comment>