points by callamdelaney 3 days ago | 0 comments
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.
[–] 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.
Then you misunderstand how hardware, software, firmware, drivers, and operating systems have worked for the last few decades.