On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 11:21:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 21:07:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
B. Physical interface:
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By this I mean both actual input devices (keyboards,
controllers, pointing devices) and also the mappings from
their affordances (ie, what you can do with them: push button
x, tilt stick's axis Y, point, move, rotate...) to specific
actions taken on the visual representation (navigate, modify,
etc.)
Also guess why Linux has problems with hardware support even
though they have all programmers they need who can write pretty
much anything.
Because hardware costs money, reverse engineering hardware is a
specialized discipline, reverse engineering the drivers means you
need twice as many people and a more rigorous process for license
reasons, and getting drivers wrong could brick the device,
requiring you to order another copy?
Because Linux *doesn't* have all that many programmers compared
to the driver writers for literally every device in existence?
