Where are Purism, System76, Tuxedo Computers, Starlabs, SlimbookES, and others? Instead there’s Dell, HP, ASUS, and Fujitsu…

  • onlinepersona@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    Sure, but why aren’t those vendors certified? Is it a lack of action on the vendor’s part? Is it a monetary problem where Canonical is demanding too much money and thus gatekeeping smaller vendors with smaller pockets from being certified? what is it?

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      1 year ago

      I suspect most vendors just dgaf about being linux certified. They just build their hardware to work with Windows since that is what most people will use. If the hardware happens to work with Linux too, great. But it’s much more important to make sure it works with a system that over 90% of your users use.

      If you build laptops that you deliver with a Linux system on it, then yes, you will make sure it is Linux certified and it works properly.

      It’s not difficult to imagine that for most laptops that are made, Linux wasn’t even considered for a second.