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by DarkUranium 37 days ago
1000x less eyes is true, but also: Linux, even in the kernel, has a long history of "move fast and break things".

Yes, the syscall API is (famously) stable, but the drivers, for example, are such a mess that many non-Linux projects prefer to take BSD drivers for e.g. WiFi despite them supporting far fewer devices (even if the Linux ones would be license compatible).
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PunchyHamster 35 days ago
driver attitude in Linux could be summed up to "we'd rather have the hardware driver working than absent".

> but the drivers, for example, are such a mess that many non-Linux projects prefer to take BSD drivers for e.g. WiFi despite them supporting far fewer devices (even if the Linux ones would be license compatible).

or vote with your wallet and get device that has well supported card.

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