One of the things that the Windows kernel does just better than Linux is providing a stable kABI. The argument against that is “just upstream/open source your d

One of the things that the Windows kernel does just better than Linux is providing a stable kABI. The argument against that is “just upstream/open source your driver”. Well that’s not always possible. I think this is honestly holding back hardware support in Linux. The ideologically driven FOSS folks can choose to only run open-source drivers, while those just wanting to get stuff done (like me) will happily run proprietary drivers. I understand this does undermine the purpose of the GPL so it will never happen.