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Android shows exactly what that would look like: You get a blob-like kernel/stdlib/driver package from your vendor, then build your operating system around that
by xorcist 8y ago
Android shows exactly what that would look like: You get a blob-like kernel/stdlib/driver package from your vendor, then build your operating system around that and never speak about it again because it's brittle mess of good enough.
The only reason Google and a few big players can ever ship updates is by playing hard with those vendors, and negotiating upgrade paths in advance. Nobody is interested in doing that for the desktop.
- pjmlp 8y agoExactly the example of the FOSS religion I was talking about. Game devs just want to put shinny pixels on the screen, no one cares if it is a blob or not. AMD is open source and there is hardly any advantage, X routinely crashs, doesn't provide support for the GPUs that were dropped from the rebooted driver, being stuck with fewer capabilities than fxgl. Hollywood studios are quite happy with NVidia drivers.