Yeah I am sure there are exceptions. I just assume a leaner app will run faster generally
It's generally true, though Windows has a huge driver advantage as pretty much every OEM just concentrates on Windows driver compliance. Linux drivers are an afterthought, often hacked together by the community with no assistance from the OEM.
I did not know that. Thank goodness there are people out there making the machines work by creating drivers
Some companies open up some of their hardware by explaining how to interact with bits of it, such as graphics card OEMs and the two major CPU fabs. Seriously lacking are drivers for certain kinds of wireless cards and things like that. At best, you might get a binary blob from the OEM and have to reverse engineer it.
Fortunately, this has always been true and there's a giant community dedicated to making shit work.
As you saw with his laptop, it usually does just fucking work.
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