FYI HP (and Dell, but not Lenovo) are priority targets on the BDS list. Please do not support them even if they support Linux.
What’s the “BDS” list? Never heard of it.
I hate when I already don’t buy from any of these companies, so I can’t really join the boycott for this. At least some of them I am boycotting for other reasons, not just because they make a shit product. Intell, for example, I’ll buy from AMD every time first.
Sadly, AMD is in Israel as well, although to a lesser degree.
AMD’s not just in Israel, Lisa Su has been visiting the white house lately.
I read it as “BDSM Movement”…
Like ATM machine.
I might shorten this to BDSM in the future though…
Bdsm…
Boycott divest and sanction israel
Damn I just looked that up and WIX is on the list. WTF, WIX? Damnit
They’re an Israeli company so they’re included by default. I think they just get their own entry as they a decently large organisation.
Oh wow I did not realize that’s where they are from. Really too bad because they make quality filters. That’s okay I will buy a different brand regardless
ik HP has a Linux laptop and all but this company is definitely the last company I thought would do smt like this
high-usage vendors like hp (and dell, lenovo previously reported on) have to start paying-in to support the operating costs of the service.
they certainly aren’t doing it because they want to.
Think about it. Right now, windows is a fucking hog of an OS. It takes up huge space, gas huge overhead, and needs huge amounts of ram. Ram and storage are expensive as hell right now.
Linux can run well on a laptop on decade old tech (One of my old laptops is literally from 2016 and runs Linux mint butter smooth).
So by promoting Linux, HP can sell a laptop with less ram and less storage, that doesn’t run like shit. Saves them loads of money. They may not give a flying fuck about Linux. This still helps their bottom line.
Windows 11 is the best thing that Microsoft ever did for Linux
hmm true that’d make sense
me too but i don’t think its a good idea to to trust their good gesture yet; their product lines are still hella closed and not allow for much customization. even in the rare instances they allow to they impose arbitrary limitation and/or require their software
Great news for the foundation, still sorry HP but you have burned me regarding your printers
lol, $100k+… HP revenue in 2024 was $53,559,000k.
Dell same year $88,000,000k and Lenovo $69,000,000k, so ~$50B to $90B
I let you calculate the percentage but… I’d guesstimate it’s approximately nothing.
Revenue is not operational profit
Right… which… is why I wrote revenue and not operational profit? Was I unclear? What should I have shared instead? Please feel free to clarify directly with whatever you believe would be better and why, we can all learn.
What is this condescending tone, is this what they call redditor energy
Were you not condescending? Don’t you believe you started this?
You could have said :
- Revenue is not precise enough, operational profit would be a better metric
- Operational profit is more representative of the situation and for HP it’s [insert value]
or basically anything that prompts a discussion by kindly clarifying.
Instead you basically said “Apples are not oranges” and now you are saying replies are toxic.
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I’m not sure you’re understanding my perspective so I can make it explicit : I took their comment as snarky, not helpful, trying to make their view as objective without helping me and others understanding why their position was better.
Take a deep breath.
Thats pretty great of HP tbh, still fuck them im never buying another HP laptop after my last one suffered from a case of HP (Hinge Problems)
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Hey, putas are at least useful for something and they’re still human, as are their hijos.
Soon subscription is coming up for fwupd
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Monitor ran out of cyan, can’t show image. Please replace with Genuine HP Color Display Cartridge^tm to correct.
Greats news more support for Linux, Two weeks ago I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 2in1 and while I was on their website checking the warranty, I decided to see if there were BIOS drivers and there were. I tried using fwupd and it didn’t find anything and when I searched found that this model does not have Linux support and I couldn’t simply use the terminal, it was only possible from Windows, I had to download the .exe and Hiren’s to update the firmware.
Let’s go! I want more of this! Better hardware/firmware support is always appreciated.
Can someone ELI5? Is this extremely token gesture an appreciative nod or strings (visible or not) attached trojan horse?
Linux desktop marketshare is going up, though it’s definitely not huge. Windows 11 is not particularly popular, and very resource-heavy in a time where those same resources are exploding in price. I’d imagine that hardware companies want to hedge their bets a bit and supporting Linux is this manner is pretty safe.
It’s worth noting that HP is also one of the bigger hardware vendors and a lot of servers run Linux, so again firmware updates are probably a good thing you support.
