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Linux was responsible to open countless drivers, and is the reason that I can enjoy my laptop with free drivers. But fear not, you can still use non-free drive
by nextaccountic 5y ago
Linux was responsible to open countless drivers, and is the reason that I can enjoy my laptop with free drivers.
But fear not, you can still use non-free drivers with Linux!
edit: you said about chromeOS in another post. Congratulations, it uses Linux!
- hutzlibu 5y agoThx. I am aware of chromeos using linux. But it is very strongly modified and reshaped and is still no open system I can control or own. But it works. With standby times for example, my 100% linux laptops could not even dream about (and that is, with all the quirks and optimisations hacked into them) as they are worlds apart. (standbydrain is something like from 100% to 0% battery in 2 days on full linux and over 4 weeks with chromeOS. My windows laptop lasts at least twice the time under windows, compared to linux. With more power. Mainly because of good and bad drivers.
- nextaccountic 5y agoOkay, but.. there are good open source drivers too. I am actually incredulous - do you _prefer_ to use proprietary drivers, given a choice? Proprietary drivers are often locked to certain kernels, so this means you can't get updates.