Is Acer going to support Linux Vendor Firmware Service soon?

I'm currently having a discussion in regards about Linux on ACER. ACER has just closed off an unsolved issue in regards to using Linux on an ACER device as you would more likely see in the forums.
But in regards to your question, ACER appears it wishes to have no relation with any with opensource operating systems of any sort, as I am currently aware of.

Lyubomir said:

I've forgotten to reply what the reply was. But they said something among the lines that they were evaluating and would soon support. Generally positive reply.

Well that's good news.

I opened a topic regarding Linux Vendor Firmware Service and was instantly banned. Not sure whether those two are related.

Why would distribution of a UEFI via a method tested on 110 million devices still require extensive testing? My understanding is that installing Windows, then installing a BIOS update and then installing Linux is equivalent to using fwupd on Linux. How is any part of the installation via fwupd vendor or Linux specific?

For actual drivers, one could argue that it would also be non-trivial to guarantee support, but I don't see why that would be the case for a BIOS/UEFI.

in linux this is impossible to update drivers it is acers duty to provide proper support if lenovo dell hp asus msi can provide fwupd lvfs what is wrong with acer does this mean acer is a tire 3 brand so customer service will be given windows 11 is as bad as windows vista i after 7 10 was the actually last best windows exist after that i switched to linux and after buying new device now i understand how bad windows really is.

i want lvfs and fwupd support asap.

It's not true that having a forum doesn't make any sense, because they can use it to see how many people are running Linux in the wild and once sufficient interest is there, this in turn might influence their decisions. Now, whether they actually ever look at the forum, I don't know, but it would be odd if they didn't.

So, while for actual support, one would need an engineer, that doesn't mean that some product manager or product engineer can't look here to come up with inspiration.

Also, it appears their model is to use some forum members as a form for free labor by only distributing some manuals to some members as a form of dystopian reward.

I think the forums do contain some useful information regarding how to install alternative operating systems, but it would be much better to have an actual manual.

Perhaps in a few years, one would just buy a https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2024-09-09-introducing-mnt-reform-next.html and have some well supported Linux server hardware platform for the more heavy workloads. At some point such open hardware becomes fast enough to be usable and at that point traditional vendors might have to adapt. The advantage of that laptop would be a fanless design and the value of not hearing a fan while thinking is probably much higher than most people would estimate for creative work.

Right now, if you want decent Linux support, you just have to give premium brands a return on their investment from a decade ago (e.g. Dell with their developer laptops). Some of their Linux laptops have been solid, although it's not always the case that future models are better, which I think kills the brand. A Linux laptop that actually works is a productivity device and presents real value, which means that they can be priced higher even with no licensing costs. Framework laptops sound cool in theory, many people claim to be happy with them, and there is a lot of software support these days. So, right now it's just a matter of whether you want a laptop on which only 80% of the components work (e.g. no working fingerprint reader and no working microphone for my Acer laptop) for 40% of the price or a laptop on which everything works for 100% of the price. Some people pay extra to have a laptop without a microphone, but using Acer on Linux that feature is there unintentionally out of the box 😂. I would prefer the microphone to work to be honest, but an external microphone costs like $10 and there are external webcams that come with USB-audio installed as well, making it optional. I am mostly happy with a computer that feels fast enough without any limitations for normal activities; it's not really a system I recommend to build desktop Linux kernels on or to build Chromium from source, but it certainly does work. I have 64GB of RAM in a laptop, which was a huge upgrade and while I probably never used more than 32GB, it's just so nice to never run from swap. I know that it is possible to have laptops with even more RAM, but from a dollar/performance standpoint it's great.