I think it's not so much as the vendors of the graphics card and such that only released closed blobs to go with the open drivers in the kernel. And while they

I think it's not so much as the vendors of the graphics card and such that only released closed blobs to go with the open drivers in the kernel. And while they may work with say, ChromeOS, getting them to work on Linux isn't as straightforward. Android has a similar issue, though most of the time people aren't jumping from Android to another OS..