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Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend
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I think this strategy makes perfect sense and is really working.
Most of the open source community uses Linux or Mac for development. Windows is pretty much an afterthought. You even sometimes see "cross platform" projects that don't work on Windows.
But now that you can use WSL for all that development there's much less reason to use Linux in the first place. At my company we have a couple of hundred people using Linux, and we're considering all moving to Windows with WSL because the hardware support on Linux is just too unreliable - random crashes, laptops not going to sleep when you close them, poor thermals, bad memory management, etc.
I must just be really lucky then? I've been running Linux exclusively for about a decade, including on my laptops and while my most recent laptop is from System76 every laptop I had before this one and all the HW in my desktop was purchased without considering Linux compatibility because I literally haven't had hardware compatibility issues in years. I thought those issues were from Linux of the past and my own experience agrees with that. Weird.
I've had zero compatibility issues (other than garbage docking stations using display link) but I was always just buying Dell. I just tried an Asus and have a ton of problems. Hardware is still an issue on Linux unless you're using the most common shit.
Daily driving OpenSuse for ~20 years.
Interesting, before my system76 laptop I had an HP, and before that a Dell. My desktop has had both gigabyte and Asus mobos in it over the years. I personally run Debian but I self compile my kernel, mostly for debloat and minor preference changes.