There's not much Qualcomm can do about Microsoft lifting its bum to help them, but they can support a kickass Linux experience.

And why intel sits around licking Microsoft's boots. All these decades when they too could have been pushing good Linux support as a hedge against Microsoft doing exactly this I'll never know.

The second m1 dropped, amd and Intel should have been all in on pushing a well-supported Linux desktop to compete with that. They dropped the ball of course and let Microsoft just fumble away with Windows like they have been for the last decade and a half.

Implementing this hedge in these gigantic multi-billion dollar companies would have been what maybe five $10 million a year? Peanuts.