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[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Big old citation needed there.

Supports more hardware... But not gaming hardware... And not industrial hardware which is often windows only.. But def more...

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

the point is that the architecture and development style of linux provides for a very robust and reliable platform to develop hardware for

gaming is a VERY new thing on linux, so it’s not at all surprising that support is in its infancy… but you look at things that linux has been doing basically since the internet has existed: servers, and hardware support is unmatched

… and there’s way more server hardware than there are most other categories of hardware