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was very sad after looking at my Sisyphean fight with USB PD and sent me a TBT3 PCIe card. I plug it in, install the proprietary Linux NVidia driver and... GPU hotplug just works. GPU offload just works. Zero configuration. Linux is so cool these days

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Is it still Linux if you're using code that isn't GPL/open sourced? 😛

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most Linux kernels (by count of deployments) include some I think

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On mobile, exFAT is often handled like that. The SoC typically platforms use open source kernel code with a mix of open and closed source driver libraries in userspace in most cases (MediaTek, Qualcomm, Tegra, Kirin, Exynos and nearly any other ARM SoC with a GPU due to Mali).

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s/typically platforms/platforms typically/ I think the % of mobile devices with open source kernel space is probably very closely tied to the deployment of exFAT support. It's usually a module that's likely not loaded if it isn't being actively used and most people won't use it.