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A Flowchart to Understand Windows vs Linux Driver Development Challenges

I made this little flowchart to collect my thoughts on driver development in the Windows vs Linux ecosystems. Uploading it

Found this excellent blog post: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/82328.html This echoes most of what I’ve been feeling about the state of “Linux Laptops”.

Here’s an interesting talk: As you can tell from the title, I disagree. For some reason it blows people’s minds

Looks like the wonderful pry-nav gem has fallen into disrepair. No one can push to rubygems, the creator is MIA.

In the world scientific community, our rate of yearly innovation seems to be slowing. Let’s look at a chart of

Show of hands – who’s still using Ruby in 2021? *raises hand* Although, it’s debatable that any of us are

Linux is almost 100% of the market share on servers, and almost 100% of mobile devices (besides Apple). So why

A running theme in the Calvin & Hobbes comic is his Dad dragging him along on a family outing, or

When the Linux kernel boots, it needs to be told what to run next. That program, the “init process”, a.k.a.

I’ve been restoring an old computer, using as many new parts as possible (dual SATA and PATA SSDs, rather than