[scarface74]

Unless you want a stable infrastructure to keep binary drivers compatible with newer versions of Linux....

He would probably use a lot more profanity.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Right, except my Windows 98 drivers don't work with Windows 10 either... What's the point?

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

The point is that your Windows 10 drivers from a year ago still work with the Windows 10 update you did today. This is not true of Linux driver binaries.

[majewsky]

Yes, but that's also the reason why Linux has as much hardware support out of the box: because it forces drivers to be developed in-tree.

[scarface74]

Windows doesn’t actually come with a dirth of drivers out of the box and it keeps backward compatibility with drivers longer.

[Dylan16807]

I'm okay with directing "why would you want to do that?" at people that want to deliver binary drivers to their customers, since that makes them a lot harder to fix later.

But unless it's a gnome dev speaking, I don't think it's something commonly aimed at users.