[realusername]

How else is that supposed to work?

You either fix a driver in the kernel or a driver outside the kernel, it's not going to make that big of a difference to the person who has to fix it.

[jdiff]

The difference is that the end user doesn't have to do it. Someone else is going to do it. Just like it is on Windows.

[realusername]

That only works because Windows has a large marketshare, the day it drops to 10%, users will have to write their own drivers as well

[jdiff]

I was highlighting this as a similarity between them, but I see how my comment can be ambiguous. The average Linux user isn't currently writing their own drivers or compiling their own kernels, even with its tiny relative userbase.