Seems like people just don’t care.

  • Xanza@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    I don’t disagree, but at the same time, circle back to my original statement. Even if every single *nix user were to only use open source drivers, that’s still not enough. 4% of the market share isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about *nix support.

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      2 days ago

      4% of US alone is 12 million people.

      If even 25% of them decide hardware purchases based on driver support, 3 million sales isn’t ignorable.

      (The number of PCs sold globally per year is similarly 300,000,000, so even then theyd lose out on 12 million potential sales YEARLY)

      The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I’m sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.

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        2 days ago

        The market share is already there and there not doing open source drivers, so I guess you’re empirically wrong. I dunno what else to tell ya.

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          2 days ago

          Dunno what else to tell ya cause they are moving to open source, but hey googles free if you want to find out for yourself