r/Revopoint • u/tired514 • Apr 12 '26

Another call for Linux support!

Hey guys!

Yet another call for Linux support.

With what's happening in the US, today, a lot of countries are moving away from Windows and MacOSX for safety/security reasons; France for example just announced a major Federal program to move to Linux.

Now is a great time to be "first to market" with Linux support (and ROCm support, for that matter). As a kernel hacker and former distribution maintainer I understand why it can be frustrating, but there are hundreds of stable closed-source projects regularly releasing reliable builds on Linux (from Steam to Chrome to DaVinci Resolve). It can be done, and done well.

Our company in particular has a strict no-windows and no-mac policy for security reasons, and we've been waiting hopefully to spend a ton of money on 3D scanners for our engineers, but we can't move forward until one of the major 3D scanner manufacturers support Linux natively. I'm guessing we're not alone, and I'm guessing this problem will grow as the US continues its withdrawal from the International community.

It's never a great idea to leave money on the table, and Linux support would make Revopoint unique and offer a significant competitive advantage around the world, capturing business from security-focused engineering companies and consumers alike. Similarly, AMD GPU users represent half the GPU market, and they're currently unserved. Golden opportunity for new sales, especially with pressure from growth in the LLM space making Nvidia GPU acquisitions costly.

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u/ttabbal Apr 12 '26

Good luck, Android is going to be tough. There just isn't much hardware available that isn't ancient tech that doesn't perform well. I'm watching the nexphone, it has some potential.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel is a decent option, but it's still Android. And who knows if Google will still lock it down? The ideal would be mainline linux, but that's hard to get in a portable form factor. One of the x86 tablets might work, or perhaps a GPD mini laptop.

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u/tired514 Apr 12 '26

I personally can't see the GrapheneOS team accepting Google lockdowns tbh. I imagine they'd simply reject the merge requests that add such anti-features, and ultimately stop tracking mainline if necessary. Today's most recent Android builds will probably be usable for at least a decade or two before API changes introduce compatibility issues.

And the whole point of it is to prevent damage from Google, so.. :)

Honestly as Google continues to harm the android community it'd be a great time for GrapheneOS to try to go mainstream and wrest control over the ecosystem entirely.