@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @hacknorris @2T2@mstdn.starnix.network Oh, now I get the question 😂
Why Windows and not Linux? Because the community port of Windows is great, everything works, including HW video decoding. It can boot linux — but that's it. It has some framebuffer support and the networking might work if stars align properly. A device like this is hardly useful.
@Suiseiseki I still think it's acceptable in this rare case. Only the kernel boots on this device, the userspace doesn't matter at this point 😆
@Suiseiseki It is more ambiguous than using linux though. I think everyone here gets that I'm talking about GNU/Linux, not Android, not Chimera or some other even more obscure shit.
I know the difference, you know the difference — everyone in this thread does. If I was writing a paper on it, I'd use the correct term, but you don't have to be so picky about the coments in a rather humorous thread.
@Suiseiseki I insist that it is acceptable. Sure the kernel won't work by itself, but that is not what my point was. This device is not usable because there is no support for the hardware it has *in the kernel*. No init can change that.
@Suiseiseki I didn't mention any login prompt. The fact that framebuffer works doesn't imply login prompt, it doesn't even imply you can access built-in storage and mount the root partition, right?
I get it, you just want to push some agenda, but this doesn't look like a perfect occasion to do it.
@Suiseiseki And I'd certainly use GNU/linux more often than I do now if I didn't have this 500 character limit.