<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>The reason is they make little to no revenue from desktop, and no profit. As a cost center they subsidize it to bolster their server and hopefully mobile offerings by a network effect - people using Ubuntu server may want to develop on Ubuntu desktop and vice versa. [1]&lt;p&gt;It would be a loss if Canonical drops support for desktop as in my experience Ubuntu desktop is the easiest and most practical desktop Linux available. I like that Shuttleworth is committed to it but hope that that lasts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>I miss the days when new Ubuntu releases included things desktop&amp;#x2F;laptop users could get excited about. Nowadays it&amp;#x27;s all stuff for servers and phones. I run Ubuntu on both my workstations, so it&amp;#x27;s sad to see that use case feel more and more like an afterthought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10</title><url>http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/10/13/canonical-releases-ubuntu-16-10/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Daishiman</author><text>To me this is refreshing. The Linux desktop has been, for me, a very mature product for the past couple of years. I no longer fear that having to update will mean tweaking everything to get things working.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>I miss the days when new Ubuntu releases included things desktop&amp;#x2F;laptop users could get excited about. Nowadays it&amp;#x27;s all stuff for servers and phones. I run Ubuntu on both my workstations, so it&amp;#x27;s sad to see that use case feel more and more like an afterthought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10</title><url>http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/10/13/canonical-releases-ubuntu-16-10/</url></story>