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> I want my preferred free software to be able to access all installed hardware and use it to its full capabilities. This would cost enormous amounts of money
by chx 4y ago
> I want my preferred free software to be able to access all installed hardware and use it to its full capabilities.
This would cost enormous amounts of money for practically no benefit whatsoever to the manufacturer. Modern hardware is complex so drivers are costly and Linux-on-desktop enthusiasts are an incredibly, incredibly small niche. Which, I must add, is just getting smaller and smaller as WSL and ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex subsumes many of the use cases. In fact, I am not even sure what is left.
- funcDropShadow 4y agoThe manufacturer don't have to make it work with arbitrary software. They could just stop making it more difficult then necessary.
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- chx 4y agoThe amount of work to get a driver use a modern chip to full capabilities is really huge. It almost never happens with volunteer written drivers, whether the manufacturer is friendly or not. The fragmentation is just too big.