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Likely the big reason there is that hardware manufacturers test for Windows and write drivers for Windows. Damn it, there is at least one documented case of a
by digi_owl 10y ago
Likely the big reason there is that hardware manufacturers test for Windows and write drivers for Windows.
Damn it, there is at least one documented case of a motherboard giving a junk ACPI return if the OS identified itself as anything other than Windows.
- aidenn0 10y agoWhile hardware manufacturers testing on windows does explain a lot, don't discount the massive amount of work MS put into making windows work on flaky hardware. They really do (or at least did) seem to have the mentality of "we will be blamed if it doesn't work, so bend over backwards to make things work"