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I, too, consider it naive to think that a relatively unorganized bunch of people are going to make good chips, write good drivers and support the whole lot for
by tgv 5y ago
I, too, consider it naive to think that a relatively unorganized bunch of people are going to make good chips, write good drivers and support the whole lot for free, and deliver a product that's competitive. There's so much stacked against it. Case in point: Linux on the desktop.
- baybal2 5y ago> I, too, consider it naive to think that a relatively unorganized bunch of people are going to make good chips, It's naive to thing that relatively unorganized bunch of people wrote the most popular OS in existence.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Linux on the desktop You mean it's fully doable and going to become a standard in practice for our peers?
- tgv 5y agoBut unfortunately ignored by the masses...
- jacquesm 5y agoThat's fine. At least they have the choice.
- tgv 5y agoSure, but the complaint was about drivers for 37% of the phones. That's going to stay, even if chip design and/or manufacturing becomes open source. And Linux for the Desktop kind of proves that: the choice is there, but very few take it. I work on a website that gets responses from a representative sample of the population (age, gender, education, geographical spread, are all balanced; other factors unfortunately not). Linux usage is about 2%.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Linux usage is about 2% Considering the amount of very casual users, the usual paretian distribution, the heavy introduction of mobile OS in accessing the web, and the (witnessed) presence of engineers who adopt the motto "Outside work I want to use a Mac to convince me that no issues ever exist", the number makes some sense. I would have computed double as an estimation.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe kernel group is extremely well organized, and lots of other groups are too.