> It's not a problem in the Windows world that drivers are not open source Yes it is. Let alone the inability to study the source code and other goodness of op

> It's not a problem in the Windows world that drivers are not open source Yes it is. Let alone the inability to study the source code and other goodness of open source, there are old drivers that are not maintained anymore and that can't run on newer versions of Windows, where hardware that is not maintained anymore by the manufacturer still works on Linux because the open source driver can still be adapted to run on newer versions.