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Can you name a kernel with more robust hardware support?

>>smolde+(OP)
Windows for starters. Also the title claims that things work well not that linux is the best.

>>CyberD+h1
Windows has pretty terrible hardware support IMO. Comparing the state of Linux Vs Windows on ARM/PowerPC/RISC-V, it's not even a contest.

I think there's a case to be made for the stability of Windows drivers (I should hope vendors don't half-ass support), but modern networking and storage drivers on Linux blow Microsoft's analogs out of the water.

>>smolde+(OP)
There was a recent post about the Frame.work laptop now offering a ChromeOS version. The Linux container support in ChromeOS is excellent, and basically ChromeOS is optimized to work well with all laptops that it runs on.

>>smolde+F2
Which consumer laptops are there out there with Power or RISC-V chips?

>>smolde+F2
> PowerPC/RISC-V

The person you replied to didn't mention those and there aren't laptops with those CPUs anyway, so this is just goal post shifting nonsense.

> but modern networking and storage drivers on Linux blow Microsoft's analogs out of the water

I don't think that's true at all and you didn't link any evidence.

>>smolde+(OP)
For my specific hardware (Framework laptop), the hardware is better supported on Windows. Lower battery consumption especially while the device is asleep, better handling of fractional display scaling, brightness keys on the keyboard are functional without needing to disable brightness sensor, etc. Most egregiously for a laptop, Fedora doesn't give any way to adjust the trackpad scroll speed (not sure if that's a kernel limitation tho)

>>smolde+(OP)
That's a bit of a non-sequitar. If you're trying to use it on a laptop it doesn't matter that it runs on phones and supercomputers as well.