HardRock wrote:Hexspa wrote:Happy Let's Pester RME About Linux Support Day. How will you be spending it?
It's the old chicken and egg problem. RME doesn't do Linux drivers because of small market share and small market share is caused by RME not doing Linux drivers.
But look at the competition - recently Focusrite broke ranks and pledged their official support for Linux driver development. RME should really take note and lead the way, instead of lagging behind.
Things don't have to be black and white. If RME so much as showed initiative of supporting independent devs in this endeavour, like Focusrite did - that would already be a big step.
Yeah, that's my understanding of it as well. The quoted number I see is 3% adoption of Linux across domains like gaming and pro audio. It's not that I don't understand the economics of it, it's that I see it as a values issue.
RME strikes me as a company that wants to control the variables of their platform. In a concrete sense, they develop their own (renowned) drivers instead of using generic ones. Since this is a core tenet of their business, I'd think they'd want to be on an OS that gives the users the same level of control. Sometimes businesses do things that make less economic sense but make more brand value sense.
Either way, I bought in here at a time when they didn't support Linux so I got what I paid for. Still, I believe that every customer gets a virtual 'ticket' to voice their preferences so that's why I speak. They are doubtlessly aware of the potential to serve this market so all I can do is help keep the flame burning.
But definitely even unofficial support of independent initiatives would be something this segment would welcome.