Signing also costs money which I don't have... (yes there are ways around this)
These are not "user-hostile restrictions", they're "malicious hardware vendor hostile restrictions".
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Not on Linux though. Plenty of working RE'd drivers there. Also doesn't restrict my ability to poke the hardware or the kernel.
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Why is Windows special?
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Because of market forces. On Windows, it's a malicious party (hw vendors) who want to break driver rules for "value added" crap & ..
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..well, pretty much, to win at benchmarks.
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It's not about users being able to use the hardware they bought in the way they want to.
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I've mostly just seen incompetence rather than malice (other than GPU drivers, which are shitty on every OS). Who else does this?
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HP is most famous for "value-added crap" w/ printers & scanners. Benchmark malice is mostly vid cards.
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Sound card vendors also did deceitful stuff in drivers (faking capabilities hw was advertised to have in sw) but signing doesn't stop this.
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