[ralfn]

There isn't a fixed number of Linux users. Your economic model for this is misguided.

System76 seems to want to sell to engineers, researchers and data scientists. The competition here is a MacBook with the typical Unix ecosystem or a Windows laptop with WSL.

So this allows them to take control of the total user experience and increase their customer base.

Their target audience is people who want and need a Unix based environment, are power users, but don't want to play around too much.

So this investment is intended to sell more laptops. I think they have a fair shot at making this pay for itself and they have a small but reasonable opportunity to grow exponentially and become a player of a seriously different size.

I would assume people on HN could appreciate the ambition.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Framework, Lenovo, Dell all offer linux laptops now.

I like what they are doing though. To be fair, I really love the concept of tge Framework though.

I recently bought a secpnd nvme ssd for my gaming pc and put Kubuntu on it, I'm not sure I want to go back to a laptop. It's insanely fast.