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Most of their Linux drivers are contributed by the chipmakers themselves

• zer0zzz 4y ago
  tell me you've only used Linux since the mid 2010s without telling me you've only used Linux since the mid 2010s This is very very very recent trend. This wasn't even the case when I was in school. You used to have to use the NDIS wrapper (Windows network driver support in the Linux kernel) for lots and lots of wifi chipsets to get any kind of wifi working.
  • Epa095 4y ago
    So what?
    • _ph_ 4y ago
      The point being that it was vital for the success of Linux that there were hackeres willing to reverse engineer closed hardware to make it run. That there are now official and open source drivers for a lot of hardware is a directly consequence of it.
      • zer0zzz 4y ago
        Exactly
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• freehorse 4y ago
  For GPUs AMD yes, but for example when the Asahi project started there was no open source driver from NVIDIA. These trends are very recent, and they do not guarantee anything more anyway (like who knows if they will continue contributing in the next generation).