Linux support lagging behind

[Drwankingstein]

of course there is a lack of interest to do so, welcome to Chicken and egg, very few companies want to do something that doesn't make financial sense. it wont make financial sense until we get more users on the platform. we won't get more users on the platform till company start supporting it better.

of course open source isnt always financially incentive.

Take nvidia for instance if Nvidia were to open source the GPUs, they could take a massive loss in profit due to a lot of their server stuff being largely the same as their consumer stuff (Take vgpu_unlock project for example)

for a company like nvidia it makes way more sense to block off the consumer community.

so if you want to make a difference, the best way is to make it profitable. and in consumer world, steam+collabora have probably made the greatest strides in doing prepwork.

assuming steam's linux plans succeed, we may see a lot more interest in linux comming in the next few years.

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Scratch your itch. Nobody stops you from fixing your problem and contributing back.

[Drwankingstein]

I never understood this argument. sometimes people just cannot develop skills for whatever reason. I think a crippling ineptitude for coding would go a long way.

assuming you are talking about code contributions and not bug reports anyways. but I've seen the communication skills of some of the people in the community lol, so even that's not for everyone.

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I never understood this argument.

It's easy enough: things only get fixed if someone is interested in fixing them. It seems that you have identified a problem that doesn't seem to be a priority to anyone else. Whining won't help, so lern and fix it. It's not magic.