I finally bought a replacement CPU so I could put linux on my desktop again, just to find out that my wireless card doesn’t work under linux. I guess I’m gonna have to save up and get a PCIe wireless adapter
TwT

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    19 hours ago

    support is expensive and a lot of hardware companies operate on razor thin margins.

    either that or their c-levels of the hardware companies want to maximize profits.

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Which begs the question: if you, as a company, do not want to support the device on systems not on the short list, why not open source the main driver and let the people figure out how to make it work somewhere else? Is this such a stupid thing to wish for?

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Ask Nvidia; their software is literally created and tested on Linux but won’t release it for Linux. Lol

        And the reason why they don’t is that they’re scared of losing profit somehow

        • toor@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Because basically the only difference between a [$$$] consumer GPU and a [$$$$$] workstation/server GPU are software and a few extra memory chips (little bit hyperbole). If businesses could have been buying [$$$] GPUs and doing the same things they need to do on [$$$$$] GPUs (e.g. GPU Partitioning), Nvidia wouldn’t be where they are right now.