4 ms·

Exactly. Would you install macOS on a Lenovo and expect it to work? No? Then why are you doing the same with Linux? Buy hardware that your software supports.

• bluedays 5y ago
  Yes, I’ve done it.
• deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
• southerntofu 5y ago
  > Buy hardware that your software supports That was the author's point. Hardware manufacturers should sell hardware and provide detailed specs. If they're not providing specs, they're failing their mission and just releasing crappy binary drivers for Windows which may or may not work in the future, and require reverse engineering for other systems to support. Just respect standards and/or publish your datasheets. That should be a requirement to sell any kind of hardware. I can't believe it's legal for a company to sell a washing machine without schematics, even less so an entire computer! If the hardware manufacturers don't publish docs/schematics, then systems can't support the hardware and we end up in this special hell-hole that IT hardware industry has been stuck in for about two decades now.
  • mmu_man 5y ago
    Ah, thanks so much! I was under the impression nobody got my point. Maybe because it was written under stress and emotion, or it's missing some arguments, I don't know.
    • southerntofu 5y ago
      Thank you so much for writing it. I could feel your pain, and it was really liberating for me to read it. Often i feel very disconnected from people's seemingly pleasant experiences with modern hardware, it's always reassuring to read other people's detailed thoughts and feelings about why everything is wrong and broken.