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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by jlg23 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:39PM (#26744094)
Some certification of genericity required for all future device purchases by publicly funded institutions, for example.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by takeda on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:49PM (#26744241)
That's what Microsoft did. Initially there were a lot of issues and also things like hibernation didn't always work right.

Linux needs to have similar certification. The rest would be to have customers look for it and prefer hardware that's certified.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by zaat on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:59PM (#26745255)
You mean something like this:

https://certification.ubuntu.com/make/Lenovo

Or this:

https://support.lenovo.com/il/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...

It's all really very nice, but even on certified machines, some hardware parts are not working on Linux (X1 fingerprint reader, for example).

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by takeda on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:47AM (#26759746)
> It's all really very nice, but even on certified machines, some hardware parts are not working on Linux (X1 fingerprint reader, for example).

But then I guess they aren't really doing their job when certifying things that don't work.

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