> then (many years from now) you would have to try to convince [...]
> driver developers to put in lots of time (thereby money)

"Our notebook motherboard is open to any operating system supporting PowerPC. Among the operating system that could possibly work, there is AmigaOS 4, a closed-source system [...]. [...] Dutch developer H. Kanning (nickname “geen_naam”) announced the availability of an AHI sound driver supporting HD Audio compliant chips, and explicitly supporting the C-MEDIA C8828 that we selected for our motherboard. [...] it was confirmed to actually exists and work, meaning that another operating system is one step closer to being supported."
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2021/04/dummy-board-being-finalized/