Okay, so 2007 was a great year for devices that may have wanted to run Linux.

It's now 2016. Not so damn great now, is it? Even Linus Torvalds has gone on a rather Richard Stallman-ish "**** Nvidia" rant once or twice in the last decade.

I think a lot of folks just don't get how inconvenient it is to have to build your entire device purchases around "Will this run Linux?" as opposed to just running nicely "out of the box" - and I've not have had to download 3rd party driver packs since I was an admin for Windows 2000 Server SP2 - and I used to admin Windows machines from WinNT 4.0 to Windows 8.1/Windows 2012 Server and most points in-between in Fortune 500 companies.

Linux is great on a server. Linux is great embedded on a device. Damn near every Linux handheld device has flopped or is in some state of disarray, discontinuation or abandonment (read: project is now on GitHub).

I've used Slackware since almost the very beginning - mid-90's version 2.0 IIRC. I drove 280 miles (450 km) to the (then) nearest CompUSA just to touch the Nokia 770, which I ended up buying on the spot. Same for the N810, went backwards to purchase a N800.

Nothing like that exists like that right now. The excuses remain the same. And the idea that Linux cannot exist in the same space on devices that are coming out tomorrow because folks decided to finally support something from yesterday is ******** to my ears today.

That needs fixing.