Manufacturers are obsessed with the word "proprietary". For that reason alone, they tend to keep their drivers closed-source, which means that manufacturer mus

Manufacturers are obsessed with the word "proprietary". For that reason alone, they tend to keep their drivers closed-source, which means that manufacturer must keep that driver up to date without any help from the outside world. This works with Windows until a new version of Windows is released that breaks functionality. This does not work with Linux, which is monolithic, and requires drivers to be built into the kernel.