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I doubt it would make much different either way, they will add Linux support when there are hordes of people threatening to throw credit cards at them for it.
by jiggy2011 13y ago
I doubt it would make much different either way, they will add Linux support when there are hordes of people threatening to throw credit cards at them for it.
- jlgreco 13y ago(I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade now) So, never? They have "Linux" support: on ChromeOS, Android, Roku, and likely several TVs and other devices. The ChromeOS support in particular is relevant to "regular Linux" support. They just don't care, they don't have any real pressing reason to care, and frankly I don't think they ever will. The future of general consumer computers is in device/OS combos like Android and ChromeOS. When people flee Windows that is the sort of device they go to. If Ubuntu Phone or whatever it is called ever takes off, I wager it will only support Netflix as ChromeOS does: works in Ubuntu Phone but not if you are running Ubuntu Phone Edition on "unofficial" hardware.
- lukeschlather 13y agoIf people flee Windows they go to a Mac. Most people buying Android/ChromeOS devices are buying them to supplement, not replace, their PCs.
- jlgreco 13y agoSure. Either way, those people are not fleeing to standard PC hardware running "traditional" Linux distros. There is not going to be any great push sometime in the future for Netflix to support "traditional" Linux.