| > OS X is a Linux based operating system that fixed this issue OSX (which btw is based on BSD, not Linux) has been around for ages, but it wasn't that popular among developers until Apple moved to Intel, released the iPhone, and changed the laptop game with the MBA. That was the combo breaker, not the desktop. > it's an issue that that's how people see it these days; I agree, there is still good money in the desktop game; it's just that the margins on web are so eye-watering large, the market can't resist the temptation. > go the apple route and make the Linux Distro specifically for a new laptop. That would be nice, and it was sort-of tried by various entities at some point (Canonical + Dell, RedHat + IBM...), to be fair only with the commodity plasticky shit. Someone is trying it today with what are basically last year's MBPs (https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15). The problem is that both Linux and hardware move so fast and so chaotically, long-term support is always an issue; today's graphic drivers might not be good enough for next year's chips, and tomorrow someone at RedHat might decide the audio stack should be rewritten for systemd, and so on and so forth. And to be honest, the margins in the laptop game are clearly very thin. There is a reason Apple treats OSX as second fiddle to iOS and can't be bothered to refresh their MBPs as they used to. |
I can see it already, make pulseadio depend on logind under the banner of making audio device access "more secure".