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Razer Wants To Build the Best Linux Laptop, And It Needs Your Help (facebook.com)

Posted by msmash on from the quest-for-best dept.

Min-Liang Tan, a founder, CEO and creative director of gaming hardware company Razer, has assured enthusiasts that the company is looking into developing good -- the "best" he says -- Linux notebook. He writes in a post: The Razer Blade series have become the default coding machine for many out there and one of the most common asks is for us to support Linux on it. Well - we're looking at it and we're inviting all Linux enthusiasts to weigh in at the new Linux Corner on Insider to post feedback, suggestions and ideas on how we can make it the best notebook in the world that supports Linux. So if you're a Linux enthusiast, do check out the introductory thread.

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  1. Re:A truly FOSS laptop by cfalcon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    > A truly free and open-source software laptop... which allows a FOSS BIOS or UEFI replacement, FOSS drivers. No Blobs, or Intel ME.

    Fuck off.

    Yes, what you say would be perfect. But that is not something that Razer, as a system integrator and builder, gets to pick. There's NO Intel chips without the ME. There's ZERO AMD chips without the PSP, which is the rough equivalent of the ME (and has all the same issues YOU care about that ME does). Razer is trying to build a machine for developers, as they say here, and you are saying "Well, first of all, lets totally avoid x86". Does that sound like something that will sell to x86 developers?

    > Journalists, activists, and anyone who must have a secure, trusted computing device

    Which will never be built by fucking Razer, and you know it. This is Razor trying to expand from just slapping LEDs on everything. A Razer Linux laptop should have features like "the Meta key should not have a stupid Windows logo on it for some reason" and "the rainbow LEDs should be configurable in the BIOS, and not just via a proprietary configurator written in Java that still manages to only support Windows".

    At best, you can argue for open specifications where they could be put, given that it is meant to be able to be used for open source software.

    But to solve the issues you are talking about is not the problem of a laptop manufacturer. It represents a deep set of issues embedded up and down the supply chain. Bitch about that. Go grief AMD and ask them to make a chip compatible with libreboot- don't act like Razer is gonna solve this issue, or that they even should try.