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Exhaustive research was conducted on an impressive sample size of... one single device.
...and the provided details are astounding.
Because hardware manufacturers don't care about 4% market share. They just don't. They can't survive by pandering to that 4%, and it costs them time and money to make decent hardware drivers for linux.
Sad truth of it.
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)
The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I'm sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.
With the linux server market share and recent ai boom, theyd have to be more than just blind deaf and dumb to not release linux drivers.
Maybe this was true back in like the early 2000's?
It's not trust me bro at all. That's the situation we're currently in. So if these businesses would be "crazy" to leave all this money on the table and they currently are, what does that say to you?
I know critical thinking is hard, but try.
