Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square5linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYou should go read Microsoft’s attempt at excluding Linux/Unix from running on x86 using ACPI! https://web.archive.org/web/20070202174648/http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoBtw, in the end, they did this with their office format.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBrowser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, same with gaming until Proton came along
minus-squareMactan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agofor the millionth time they get to stand on the shoulders on all the wine development that came before it. and now we have to reckon with the bullshit of proton patches that never go upstream to make wine better for all
You should go read Microsoft’s attempt at excluding Linux/Unix from running on x86 using ACPI!
https://web.archive.org/web/20070202174648/http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
Btw, in the end, they did this with their office format.
Browser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.
Yeah, same with gaming until Proton came along
for the millionth time they get to stand on the shoulders on all the wine development that came before it. and now we have to reckon with the bullshit of proton patches that never go upstream to make wine better for all