Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!message-squaremessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down19
arrow-up1399arrow-down1message-squareHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI think the 1st-party device support is a little trickier on Linux than on Windows, which IMHO hampers the widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop. The reason it’s trickier is that the Linux kernel has no stable API or ABI — which is ultimately a good thing ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst ), but for closed source drivers presents a problem.
I think the 1st-party device support is a little trickier on Linux than on Windows, which IMHO hampers the widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop.
The reason it’s trickier is that the Linux kernel has no stable API or ABI — which is ultimately a good thing ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst ), but for closed source drivers presents a problem.