Will Razer Ever Wake Up and Smell the Roses?

Posted by sde on Apr 17, 2017 5:34 PM EDT
OSSBlog.org; By Steve Emms
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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.

Not all is lost, however. In general, Razer peripherals work with Linux. For mice and keyboards, the generic HID input driver on Linux provides basic support. And open source developers are endeavouring to fill the void.

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