How is everyone wildly misunderstanding this article?
It's lack of linux driver support for firmware designed for windows only laptops.
What is going on here? Commenters here are clearly extremely paranoid about NVIDIA centralizing inference. This is not reflected in the facts nor narrative of the article - it's completely fabricated out of left field her in the comments.
This is a problem on the MSI Prestige laptop using the RTX Spark platform with Linux. Lets assume it also applies to the Asus and Dell machines using RTX spark and Linux.
RTX Spark is a new platform and all of these laptops ship with Windows. You cant get Linux on any of these machines from the factory. NVIDIA may even ship drivers for linux later as they did with Dynamic Boost.