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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:04AM (#40666806)
If the kernel had a stable ABI and made it a bit easier for closed source drivers to access kernel APIs, yes.

That's how you can use a random 25 year old peripheral on multiple versions of Windows without anyone having to update a driver.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by realusername on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:55AM (#40667093)
In theory maybe, in practice I'd bet in a better Linux support on a 25 year old peripheral compared to Windows.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:24PM (#40673529)
Out of the box, sure.

For windows you can usually download a binary from some 20 year old website and it'll work.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by vetinari on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:22AM (#40667220)
That's also how you make windows ship with three different USB stacks and their weird interaction.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:40PM (#40674468)
For sure. The real world of devices is messy.

Avoiding that mess for some notion of beauty or purity only gets you so far.

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