A linux controller is needed.

Sorry, SONOS, I will cancel my offer (6 Play1, 2 Play3, 1 Playbar, 1Sub). I agree with you - Linux is not widely used in most companies, Linux is not widely supported from most companies.

I'd really would like to see a native Linux controller too. For example with the introduction of the Steamboxes from Valve Software there will (hopefully) be a lot of Debian-based Steam OS'es out there, which will (hopefully) rise the Linux market-share %, which will (hopefully) urge Sonos to reconsider to build a native Linux app.

I do run 2 Linux PC's myself.

Even if it's not a native solution, I have try quickly to install the last Windows Beta Sonos Controller with Wine on my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04LTS). But unfortunately the execution is frozen when the splatchscreen is displayed.

Dear Sonos Manager(s),
I joint these comments to request a Linux controller:
I am actually looking for a music player system and I was almost seduced by your amplifier+players because it seems (from my internet research) to be the only wireless system giving a sound of good quality. The only problem is that I would not be able to control it because I use Linux and you did not develop a controller for this system. Therefore, I joint these posts to let you know that Linux has now a large public of non-programming users who regret to be prevented to use your system. Hoping that you will finally decide to have it developed, I will wait a few more months...
Best regards

Anne M  (from France)

If not a Linux controller, at least humour us with a browser based solution?

Right, Sonos like Linux, they use Linux to develop their software, but they are not willing to give the Linux community a native controller. If you like linux and use linux, you should be aware that the whole OS and the Linux community are all about taking AND giving. Why don't you at least release the source code so that the community can develop open source controllers?

I can't take my sonos to my office, I can't listen to music while programming. I might be selling this thing because of the issue. Unboxing the Play:5 and realizing its not linux compatible was a big disappointment!!!

However, since Linux is not widely used in most homes it simply doesn’t make sense for us to develop and maintain a native application right now.  

Don't know about anyone else but this comment here worries me.  Clearly they haven't fully researched the demographic of their customers.  True, that Linux is not "widely used in most homes", neither is the sound system Sonos.  In fact I'd wager that Sonos is used in far less homes than it is used in work places.  

I am a developer and I work in a company where the predominant OS is Linux.  This is the 3rd company I've worked in which has had a Sonos sound system and every one of them has used Linux as the dominant OS.  I know about 6 or 7 other companies that also have a Sonos system and again the dominant OS is Linux and the biggest gripe we all have is that we don't have a native controller.

Sonos, you clearly do not understand your own demographic and are shooting way above your weight if you think that you'll get into the home market to make this argument mean anything.  It doesn't make sense to develop and maintain a native application because of a market that you have a minuscule representation in??

Do some further research into who your customers are and you will find that the percentile of Linux customers is a lot higher than you appreciate so putting some time into a Native controller is actually good business sense.

guys  in shop said  it was  compatible and now  found  it isnt what can i do, other  than going  back to windows?