I'm not sure where you heard any of that, but I have never heard any Red Hat employees say anything to that effect, ever. Fedora still exists, and to me that seems perfectly fine to install on a random laptop.
Not necessarily with that line of thought, Red-Hat has already acknowledged many years ago that there is no money to be made on the GNU/Linux desktop (Mandrake, SuSE and Canonical also found out years later).
pjmlp|4 years ago
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536558/red-hat-sees-n...
https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/
csande17|4 years ago
zxzax|4 years ago