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points by qwerpy 3 days ago | 0 comments

Unfortunately HN commenters as a group are not any more intelligent or resilient to emotionally-appealing misinformation than the general public, contrary to what we'd like to believe. We see a headline that confirms our biases, we turn off our brains, and then we make in-group noises to show that we belong. Pretty much the same as religious groups and rituals that we turn our noses up at.

[–] callamdelaney 3 days ago

Is it misinformation that the driver is slower on linux? There’s no such thing in my book as ‘windows’ hardware. It should work as well everywhere on day one, or we should have the ability to make it do so.

[–] keybrd-intrrpt 3 days ago

> There’s no such thing in my book as ‘windows’ hardware.

Then you misunderstand how hardware, software, firmware, drivers, and operating systems have worked for the last few decades.

[–] vondur 3 days ago

We used to have things called WinModems back in the day. Skipped using hardware modems and ran it on software that only worked under windows.

[–] ThrowawayB7 3 days ago

> "There’s no such thing in my book as ‘windows’ hardware."

Good luck with that. A PC is more or less defined by specifications laid out in Microsoft's Windows Hardware Compatibility program and tested by their Windows Hardware Lab Kit. Before that, it was defined by IBM.

I've heard that ARM has had a standard for ARM-based servers, their Server Base System Architecture, but I've never seen any compliant hardware in the wild.