On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 9:01 PM Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> PS: Somewhat abstract examples: There are so many areas, and for some > areas developers have to write software that depends on expensive > licenses, if the licenses are sold to open source communities at all. Or > very specialized hardware is needed, in such cases the hardware > manufacturers must first be willing to provide drivers themselves or > release the necessary information so that a community can provide > drivers without reverse engineering. I had written about the driver part few years ago in linux kernel mailing list. 20 years ago, I had added some features in wlan driver and I had sent the code but not in the patch format. So, the code was probably included in the driver but I am not sure if it was my code. I mentioned the above because I found that writing a driver in linux is not easy. Few years later, I developed some parts of a driver using VxWorks SDK and it was easy to develop drivers. Microsoft has also a SDK for developing drivers. In my opinion, manufacturers don't develop linux drivers because its not easy to find someone who can write a device driver in linux. May be only 1000 people in this world are proficient in writing drivers on linux. The solution to this is to make driver development easy on linux by giving a skeleton driver in which the developer can just fill in code according to his/her device. Or, may be a driver SDK, etc. It's rarely about the desktop, the > user eats what he has to if the necessary applications are available and > ideally also work well. > These days most of the non-programming people need only two major drivers - wireless lan driver and USB driver and these are available already in linux. The main point is that most of the non-programmers are used to Windows, so to migrate them to linux, there should be an user interface like Windows. I know there are few such distros but I think that there are so many diverse options in linux desktop that may be non-programmers get confused as to which one to use. If Linux foundation adopts one particular distro/linux desktop then may be it will easy for Windows users to switch to Linux. Regards, Amit
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