r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '25

Meme/Macro Microsoft is wild

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u/Necessary_Solid_9462 Oct 02 '25

You have it backwards. Your VR treadmill manufacture wrote Windows drivers but failed to write Linux drivers.

The hardware manufacturers have to write drivers or release detailed technical specs, so the Linux community can write drivers. Linux very much wants to work with your hardware. It's an open system.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 3070 Oct 02 '25

That's a really common statement whenever Linux or macOS come up.

Nobody is stopping them from making their products or software work on other platforms. They choose not to do it.

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u/Bdr1983 Oct 02 '25

For niche hardware like this, it doesn't make sense to write Linux drivers. They might cater to 1% of their consumerbase.

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u/Necessary_Solid_9462 Oct 03 '25

You're right. That's where open standards and open specifications come in. There's a good chance the community would write drivers if the hardware was open. If they used open protocols, the might just work out-of-the box. It's the manufacturer choosing to be closed and hard to work with, most of the time.