I bought a laptop and put linux on it (as I always do). The accelorometer doesn’t work on Linux. I won’t ever be able to write a driver for it in the kernel. Nobody else has done for the year since this laptop model got released.
Duh. Both are true. You can’t use the latter as an argument against the former. It’s not for Linux to solve, but if hardware drivers get written for windows more than for linux, then linux is behind in hardware support.
I bought a laptop and put linux on it (as I always do). The accelorometer doesn’t work on Linux. I won’t ever be able to write a driver for it in the kernel. Nobody else has done for the year since this laptop model got released.
It works on Windows out of the box ofc.
How is that not exactly what the author wrote?
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It is if there is no open source alternative.
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Duh. Both are true. You can’t use the latter as an argument against the former. It’s not for Linux to solve, but if hardware drivers get written for windows more than for linux, then linux is behind in hardware support.