• themusicman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would probably rephrase it as “external plug ‘n’ play devices supporting Windows”. You can be fairly certain Microsoft wasn’t the one doing the work.

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      1 year ago

      I think game controllers, external sound card or external Ethernet they all use the same generic driver that Microsoft provide to them, and those devices can add their own functionality on top, but Linux can’t have that driver because it’s MS property

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        1 year ago

        You’d be surprised how many external sound cards will not function without their official driver, despite being class compliant on mac/linux.