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How do you know somebody has no idea what they're talking about? They'll tell you.
by oasisaimlessly 11mo ago
How do you know somebody has no idea what they're talking about? They'll tell you.
- transcriptase 11mo agoShow us on the doll where they’re wrong.
- krackers 11mo agoI'm guessing it's the fact that linux has in-tree drivers, so you necessarily need to "patch the kernel" in order to write/fix a driver for a non-standard compliant device?
- realusername 11mo agoHow else is that supposed to work? You either fix a driver in the kernel or a driver outside the kernel, it's not going to make that big of a difference to the person who has to fix it.
- jdiff 11mo agoThe difference is that the end user doesn't have to do it. Someone else is going to do it. Just like it is on Windows.
- realusername 11mo agoThat only works because Windows has a large marketshare, the day it drops to 10%, users will have to write their own drivers as well
- jdiff 11mo agoI was highlighting this as a similarity between them, but I see how my comment can be ambiguous. The average Linux user isn't currently writing their own drivers or compiling their own kernels, even with its tiny relative userbase.
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- AnotherGoodName 11mo agoI can’t see any blocker to publishing this as a prebuilt kernel module honestly. For driver developers the above where you rebuild the kernel is a necessary step in developing the driver but now the above is done someone should make the trivial next step to make this into a prebuilt kernel module which are trivial to install for end users with no rebuild/reboot required. (I have built kernel modules before but I don’t have this laptop myself, sorry!).
- inferiorhuman 11mo agoI think the original comment was suggesting that Linux typically has end-user visible bugs like sound not working, not commenting on where they live.
- balamatom 11mo agodeep