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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by jedberg on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:45PM (#22291952)
> The level of interest from hardware vendors (ODM/OEM/component manufacturers) has gone down - that's why things are worse.

I'm sort of surprised the Linux community didn't put more effort into a compatibility layer so that Windows drivers could be used on Linux, or something to make it easy for vendors to quickly port their Windows drivers to Linux.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by viraptor on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:32PM (#22292366)
It's only doable for a small subset from the system side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper

On the other hand, large drivers like NVIDIA use their own blobs which likely share a lot of code between systems.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by jedberg on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:44PM (#22292489)
Right, what I'm saying is that I'm surprised more effort wasn't put into NDIS to make it work with other types of hardware.
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