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  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I would not want to use it [Linux or BSD] as my primary desktop system for too many reasons to go into here.

    https://twitter.com/MayaPosch/status/1809311467545735654

    The Linux kernel not having a stable driver ABI is why Linux will never amount to anything outside of some embedded and server applications.

    — Maya Posch, author of the submitted article

    I guess maybe that’s their reason.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      FreeBSD has stable ABIs (inside one major version).

      Anyway, this is not an answer, NVidia drivers had a binary part and a part compiled during installation for the specific kernel version, that’s one possible solution. Linux developers are ideologically against this, yes, and don’t want binary drivers to be first-class citizens.