All of this is just woefully overestimating how important the desktop market is to manufacturers at this point, Windows and Apple included.

Hardware manufacturers care a lot about the Linux market. But that Linux is Android, not desktop machines. Yes, the linux desktop segment is a tiny fragment of the market, but that market itself is shrinking and has been for almost a decade.

also, why create a linux driver when drivers for other OS's can have phone home/telemetry/postsales monetization/etc