Linux And Microsoft XP Hardware Compatibility Compared

 A very interesting experiment that Luke Maciak has performed on a formatted drive suggests that in fact Linux is much more compatible than the XP to many hardwares.

The problem that he found lies elsewhere, most of the manufactures of the various hardware can guarantee you that they would work on the XP while they make very little effort, actually no effort, to make them compatible with Linux.

The reason for this is simple - there are not enough Linux users to make the investment worth the expanses.

So we end up with an endless loop scenario. Hardware vendors are not supporting Linux because to few people are using it. Few people are using Linux because the lack of support from the hardware vendors. In such environment the only thing Linux community can do is to hack, and reverse engineer everything they can get their hands on, and support it out of the box. And this is what they have been doing for years now

I just wonder what would happen if the Linux community would just sell the manufacturers the linux compatible versions so they can sell them to the wide public in very little investment.