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by michaelmrose 1921 days ago
It's broken in open source because hardware is horrible but OEM's must make at least a minimalistic effort to make their hardware work with windows lest their hardware be returned to walmart. Presumably infinite effort to figure out how windows does it would yield software that works as well but in the real world of imperfect documentation and finite effort results in imperfect results.

There was a thread on this a while back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25385860

Short answer buy hardware known not to suck at it.