LXer: Will Razer Ever Wake Up and Smell the Roses?

LXer · 04-17-2017, 04:45 PM

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Take Razer Inc. A successful PC gaming company that produces impressive laptops, tablets, keyboards, mice, wearables and accessories. Devices which are extremely popular with gamers. With good reason, it’s generally great hardware. Their slogan is “For Gamers. By Gamers”. Alongside their Windows gaming focus they have also supported Mac OS X for years. Not Linux gamers though. Not a sniff. Razer doesn’t want to embrace Linux. There’s no official support, and nothing on the horizon.

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Timothy Miller · 04-17-2017, 04:58 PM

I've never seen a piece of Razer equipment last longer than a year before failing. I've had 3 Razer keyboards. A friend has had 1 + 2 Razer mice. Another friend had 1 of each. Out of all that hardware, ALL of it, was dead before a year from purchase. IMO, I hope Razer continues to not support linux, as I don't want to see linux users waste their money on Razer's complete garbage products.