Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by MarsIronPI on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:00AM
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> Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?
Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by pjmlp on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:07AM
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Most of their stuff isn't GPL anyway, hence why drivers are mostly in userspace.
Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by jm4 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:57PM
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That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, look at how much does land upstream. Linux moves at an incredible pace.
Edit: BTW the figure I cited are contributors to mainline.
Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by pjmlp on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:51PM
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Yet it is still a mess to support laptops, because everything still needs to be reverse engineered instead of landing into upstream.
Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by jm4 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:09PM
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My laptops have been running fine for years.
Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
by pjmlp on Monday January 12, 2026 @02:04AM
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What I had with Linux did also worked fine, provided I was happy with randomly dropping wlan sessions when doing heavy downloads, using OpenGL 3.3 instead of the OpenGL 4.1, watching YouTube without hardware decoding, and having to take out the battery when it hang during a reboot.
Other than that, it was a great Linux laptop, 2009 - 2024.
Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros.
Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.