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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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# **Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or TheBuddha. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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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.

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I did not know that. Thank goodness there are people out there making the machines work by creating drivers

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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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Yeah he did not have any driver issues at all with the mint. His laptop is 5 years old so that may help, they've had lots of time to make sure that one has working drivers