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Show us on the doll where they’re wrong.
by transcriptase 10mo ago
Show us on the doll where they’re wrong.
- krackers 10mo agoI'm guessing it's the fact that linux has in-tree drivers, so you necessarily need to "patch the kernel" in order to write/fix a driver for a non-standard compliant device?
- realusername 10mo agoHow else is that supposed to work? You either fix a driver in the kernel or a driver outside the kernel, it's not going to make that big of a difference to the person who has to fix it.
- jdiff 10mo agoThe difference is that the end user doesn't have to do it. Someone else is going to do it. Just like it is on Windows.
- realusername 10mo agoThat only works because Windows has a large marketshare, the day it drops to 10%, users will have to write their own drivers as well
- jdiff 10mo agoI was highlighting this as a similarity between them, but I see how my comment can be ambiguous. The average Linux user isn't currently writing their own drivers or compiling their own kernels, even with its tiny relative userbase.
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- AnotherGoodName 10mo agoI can’t see any blocker to publishing this as a prebuilt kernel module honestly. For driver developers the above where you rebuild the kernel is a necessary step in developing the driver but now the above is done someone should make the trivial next step to make this into a prebuilt kernel module which are trivial to install for end users with no rebuild/reboot required. (I have built kernel modules before but I don’t have this laptop myself, sorry!).
- inferiorhuman 10mo agoI think the original comment was suggesting that Linux typically has end-user visible bugs like sound not working, not commenting on where they live.