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One of those things that the end users won't ever give half a shit about. Same thing when installing some linux distros: "dO yoU wANT To doWNloAd AND iNStAll 3Rd paRty driVers"

Yes. Yes I want my GPU, wifi and bluetooth to work. Get over yourselves and leave that checkbox checked by default.



It's not an arbitrary ideological decision, it's a legal one. Blame Microsoft for their dumb license on dxil.dll which, as I read it, would require Godot to add some kind of click-through agreement.


Reminds me of the baffling license on redistributing MS's C runtime as a DLL rather than an MSI, leading to everyone having 12 different versions installed, and not being able to ship programs that run without being installed first.

I have no clue why they did this. I work for MS and I'm as annoyed about it as anyone.


Speak for yourself.


GPU, Wifi and Bluetooth commonly work with open source drivers


More often the issue is firmware rather than drivers.


Huh? I absolutely do not want proprietary drivers tainting my kernel. I barely tolerate firmware blobs. So far only nvidia has required such drivers.


some people do




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