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They don't write one because of the size of the userbase. They end up supporting 99.99%+ of their potential customers by having Windows and MacOS support for so
by judge2020 5y ago
They don't write one because of the size of the userbase. They end up supporting 99.99%+ of their potential customers by having Windows and MacOS support for something like a drawing tablet; the amount of money to support Linux doesn't justify the potentially low-four digit amount of customers that would buy the product if it had Linux support.
- petemir 5y agoAs a Linux power-user and the tech referral of my family, extended family and friends, if something works nicely on Linux I am obviously going to recommend it to everyone. That has to mean something...
- judge2020 5y agoIt still either has to be a passion project for an engineer or it has to make business sense. Even if it only takes a collective week's worth of work in a year to keep it supported, that's 1/52 of an engineer's salary, and that has to be made up/exceeded by profit generated from the extra sales. Regarding this product, pens and drawing tables for personal computers are already a relatively niche category, so the subsection of those users who also use Linux is probably very small.