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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not the other commenter, but they likely meant stability with respect to device drivers. The kernel is great at not degrading with a high uptime, but there's consumer stuff that's just perpetually unimplemented, buggy, or minimally-functional:

Sensor monitoring on Ryzen platforms
Realtek NIC chipsets
Nvidia cards and proprietary drivers for anything and everything other than compute workloads
Nvidia cards older than the RTX 2000 series and FOSS drivers
Peripherals targeted towards "gamers"

None of this is the kernel maintainers fault, of course. The underlying issue is the usual one of shitty corporations refusing to publish documentation and/or strategically abusing the legal system to stifle reverse engineering for interoperability.

[-] spex@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'm going to add Broadcom to your list, but otherwise it is a great, concise explanation of the root issues behind why some users will struggle with older hardware while others will have no issues.