> "Just recompile your kernel" is how Linux people convince other Linux users to install Windows or buy a Mac. Well I'm not really proposing he does it, I'm ju

> "Just recompile your kernel" is how Linux people convince other Linux users to install Windows or buy a Mac. Well I'm not really proposing he does it, I'm just saying he should ask for someone to help him do it. If I understand the post well, his workflow was relying on a bug in his pen driver. That bug got fixed. It's just the way things move forward, it happens on Linux, Windows, or any software really. The sane solution is just to rebuild the old driver (not kernel).