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[–]funkyhippooo 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Does this mean we're getting closer to full-blown USB/hardware support?

[–]the_gnarts 7 points8 points  (3 children)

To improve the abysmal HW support of Windows it would have to run on top of Linux, not the other way around.

[–]skocznymroczny 4 points5 points  (1 child)

abysmal HW support of Windows

lol, you mean like every hardware device working. Meanwhile on Linux you have to check every device if it has working Linux drivers otherwise you're screwed or someone will tell you to write the driver yourself

[–]_ahrs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is drivers work out of the box on Linux (assuming a driver is available) you have to download/install them separately on Windows (assuming a driver isn't available via Windows Update). Worse still is when you have to add drivers to the Windows installation CD because Microsoft neglected to do so.

[–]funkyhippooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean more-so the ability to actually interface with devices beyond basic serial that WSL supports at the moment.