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If they want their platform to be a first-class citizen of Linux, they should commit on a mandatory device-tree release for all products.

Not some flaky "one release sometime after launch", a fully integrated release-chain for all components needed to boot Linux on any X2 series device

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That's not a full solution... proper platform would have backward compatibility, so an OS from today will work on hardware released in 5 years.

That is why The Year of GNU/Linux desktop is never going to take off as such.

It was already proven by the whole netbooks, Android, WebOS, and ChromeOS.

Linux yes, as cost cut factor, and as means to power specific commercial products, running on top of WSL/Virtualisation Framework, or expensive racks on hyperscalers.

The whole community stuff, from OEMs point of view, only when it really has to be.

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