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They'd win quite few more if they fought for open drivers and firmware from the big names as well. There's a lot of people trying to make that a thing, but supp
by kgwxd 7y ago
They'd win quite few more if they fought for open drivers and firmware from the big names as well. There's a lot of people trying to make that a thing, but support from Dell could really push things forward.
- guillermin 7y agoNot even just 3rd party chipsets: I bought a first generation linux-based developer XPS13 and a proprietary Dell chip that only served to check that the power supply was an original Dell malfunctioned, so my laptop refused to charge and would limit CPU speed. I was left with a useless slow 13" desktop.
- wmf 7y agoAFAIK the tg3 driver exists because Dell fought Broadcom for it, although that was years ago. Probably even Dell isn't big enough to budge NVidia.