TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
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   On 16 Sep 2020, Nick Andre said the following...   
    NA> But thats the thing. *Everything* on Gentoo had to be compiled.   
      
   There are binary repositories, but in order to ensure compatibility you'd   
   need to build compiled packages with all standard settings anyway.   
      
    NA> With those distros it mostly "worked" but given the nature of Linux, no   
    NA> offense to anyone reading this, theres always fucking *something* that   
    NA> just doesn't work out of the box like it does on Windows. As an example,   
    NA> I'm not replacing a video card just because Linux can't make it work.   
      
   Yeah I wouldn't bother trying to install it if I didn't know beforehand that   
   the hardware was compatible.   
   Incompatibility is often a case of trade secrecy or lack of support which the   
   driver developers can't do much about. Famously video cards, wifi and the   
   old "winmodem" software modems. If the manufacturer won't provide a driver   
   and refuses to even tell you how the hardware works so you can write your   
   own, then you don't get to have a driver.   
      
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