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My experience is using Linux as my primary desktop OS for 25 years, for gaming, 3D rendering, and web browsing. I'm also a programmer and systems engineer, and
by 0xbadcafebee 10mo ago
My experience is using Linux as my primary desktop OS for 25 years, for gaming, 3D rendering, and web browsing. I'm also a programmer and systems engineer, and I've created Linux distributions, as well as contributed over a thousand packages and ports to other distros, and patched/backported drivers in the kernel. I'm not going to detail every single video driver issue I've run into, as I don't want to write a book just to prove to a random person on the internet that Linux does, in fact, have a history of issues with graphics cards and video subsystems. A simple Google search can provide more than enough examples.
But more than that, it's simple logic: hardware manufacturers often don't often release specs or proprietary firmware blobs, forcing kernel hackers to reverse engineer in order to support a device, which often is too difficult, not to mention there's only so many kernel hackers and a lot of devices and hw revisions. There's a famous YouTube video of the most famous kernel hacker telling Nvidia to go fuck itself for this very reason.