Aww, so you don't think other distros will ship this even once upstream is figured out?
Kernels already ship hardware-specific drivers, but I suppose that just comes with the Linux kernel, whereas this needs support on both the kernel and userspace sides...
If a distro is expecting you to install onto the rando asus gaming laptop you got at staples? not going to work.
The thing about M-series apple macs is there are only like 10 models total to record profiles for. You can't realistically do that and ship profiles for every x86 laptop under the sun.
You maintain profiles in a repo and package them like anything else. No one has indicated how this cannot usually be zero config via hardware probing.
That means sitting down in front of every single model with decent measurement equipment and running a test. This doesn't scale, especially not for a distro with limited resources.
It's not like this is hypothetical. https://openprinting.github.io/
it seems like precisely the contrary to an Apple-specific distribution.
There are a fuck of a lot of rando x86 laptops, and you need to record a different profile for every single one of them. That means sitting down in front of every single laptop model you want to ship a profile for and running tests with a measurement-grade microphone and equipment.
Marcan did that for the handful of M-series mac laptops that exist. Good luck physically testing even 0.01% of the x86 laptops that exist.
I have no data on this, but I would guess that the top 10 or 20 best-selling x86 laptops comprise a very significant portion of the overall market. So profile those, ignore the others, and you've helped a lot of users!